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Russia’s tank fleet has been pummeled by battlefield losses and accelerated retirements in 2024–2025, and open-source trackers and defence analysts paint a picture of a force sharply smaller than Mosc...
Public reporting and OSINT show large but uncertain changes in Russian and Ukrainian tank inventories since February 2022: multiple sources report Russia suffering thousands of tank losses (Reuters: “...
Independent and open-source estimates of Ukrainian killed and wounded from Feb 2022 through 2025 are fragmented and contested: Western analysts and OSINT projects give wide ranges rather than single a...
The June 2025 Iran–Israel war — often called the “Twelve‑Day War” — saw Israel and the United States strike Iranian nuclear and military sites beginning 13 June, and Iran respond with missiles and dro...
Since 2020 the United States has shifted from a static, Cold-War style forward posture toward a more distributed, flexible posture across the Indo‑Pacific—retaining large concentrations in Japan and S...
Digital ID systems can create powerful new tools for identification that many governments and vendors say improve convenience, security and fraud prevention (Trinsic tracking 48 schemes covering ~177M...
Publicly available reporting does not provide a single, authoritative ledger of every Western and Ukrainian tank transfer and its ultimate fate; open-source tallies and think‑tank estimates instead po...
Russia entered 2024 able to replace a large portion of battlefield losses through a mix of domestic production and stocks, and Western reporting through 2024 found that replenishments roughly kept pac...
Privacy and civil‑liberties groups warn mandatory digital IDs risk surveillance, function‑creep, exclusion and data breaches; advocates cite phone‑home tracking, biometric misuse, and expanded governm...
Four years ago the claim that is ambiguous and contested by available assessments. Some 2022–2024 analyses emphasize Russia’s large active personnel, nuclear forces, and missile inventories that susta...