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Governments scramble to rebuild deterrence after threats already appeared
Several countries are building up their defenses only after being caught off guard, rather than before.
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US missile shield still doesn't work, and cheap drones are winning wars anyway
New defense reports this week say the US Golden Dome missile shield, after $500 billion and 70 years of trying, still can't reliably stop incoming missiles, while the US also lacks enough bunker-busting bombs to hit hardened targets.
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Israel's Apache Helicopter Deal Falls Through, Raising Doubts About Arms Buildup
Israel's deal to buy Apache attack helicopters, aircraft built to strike ground targets, has fallen apart, and two more major arms purchases may follow.
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Zelensky Says Russian Airspace Is No Longer Safe for Passenger Planes
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says airlines should treat Russian airspace as completely unsafe, as Ukraine steps up long-range drone strikes inside Russia and Russia vows to hit back harder.
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The Sign in the Window: Why Deterrence Is Failing Everywhere at Once
Deterrence has always been a belief, not a weapon. This week, in Tehran, Kyiv, Tokyo and along the Korean border, that belief started to fail in the same place at once.
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400 drones over Moscow, 10 dead near Odesa: the long-range front reopens overnight
Ukraine sent more than 400 drones toward Moscow on July 20, hours after a Russian strike on a ship near Odesa killed 10. Read as it is being sold, this is escalation. Read carefully, it is the same war, louder.
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Nine Dead in Overnight Strikes as Russia Sanctions Bill Loses Its Chief Architect
Russian strikes on Dnipropetrovsk and Kherson and Ukrainian drone attacks into Russia and occupied Zaporizhzhia killed nine people overnight. The exchange came as the US senator who spent a year fighting to pass a Russia sanctions bill died hours after finally securing a White House deal to move it — leaving its next steps unclear just as Kyiv called the legislation essential leverage.