Military Readiness
Breaking
Geopolitics
Pentagon Cuts NATO Crisis Forces as Europe Faces Production Reality Check
US reduces wartime bomber and warship commitments while European allies struggle to convert record defense budgets into deliverable capabilities.
Geopolitics
Macro
The Two-Theater Trap: How the Iran War Exposes America’s Ammunition Crisis
Simultaneous combat in the Middle East and deterrence requirements in the Pacific reveal structural constraints on US military capacity that allies—especially Taiwan—are now pricing into their strategic calculus.