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SAUDI ARABIAONE MONTH AGO
Inside Yemen’s target bank: Why Saudi Arabia’s critical infrastructure is sitting on a tinderbox
Yemen has prepared a comprehensive target bank encompassing Saudi Arabia’s oil, maritime, aviation, and industrial infrastructure, with retaliatory strikes already underway, unless Riyadh ends its blockade and halts its unprovoked aggression.
DEFENSEONE MONTH AGO
Dangerous bet: How Kuwait and Bahrain miscalculated by becoming launchpads for US strikes on Iran
US missile strikes on Iranian territory since February 28 have left a trail of death and destruction, while Kuwait and Bahrain have enabled these attacks, with mounting evidence pointing to the direct complicity of Persian Gulf states in the US-Israeli war against Iran.
DEFENSEONE MONTH AGO
Inside Iran's Nasr-2 and Saeqeh operations against US military bases, assets in Persian Gulf region
Despite a ceasefire and subsequent MoU, American strikes on Iranian civilian infrastructure have triggered successive waves of Iranian missile and drone retaliation against US bases across the Persian Gulf, with operations Nasr-2 and Saeqeh inflicting mounting costs on American forces.
DEFENSE2 MONTHS AGO
Satellite images reveal: How Iran's precision strikes dismantled US Persian Gulf military network
Op. True Promise 4 systematically dismantled America's Persian Gulf military architecture, striking over a dozen bases, radar systems, and Fifth Fleet headquarters, demonstrating that Iranian precision, industrial depth, and cost-effective attrition have ended the era of US dominance in West Asia.
DEFENSE2 MONTHS AGO
The strategic arsenal US lost in war against Iran – and why replenishment will take years
Over 40 days of the war against Iran, the American military consumed more than 1,100 JASSM-ERs, 1,000 Tomahawks, and 1,200 Patriots, depleting Pacific-deterrent stockpiles in a failed campaign that failed to inflict harm on Iran's core capabilities.
DEFENSE3 MONTHS AGO
From manufacturing consent to masking defeat: 'Iran Intl.' in service of US-Israeli war machine
After military and diplomatic defeats, the US and Israel are increasingly relying on propaganda networks such as “Iran International,” sustained through opaque offshore funding, to wage perception warfare against Iran and mask their collapsing domination.
DEFENSE3 MONTHS AGO
Barakah false flag: How Israeli drones targeted UAE nuclear plant to frame Iran, unleash catastrophe
Israeli false-flag drone attack on the UAE's Barakah nuclear plant aimed to frame Iran and trigger regional war, as Tehran had no motive to poison its own shores and only Israel benefited from such adventurism.