House Rule Advances 2027 NDAA With Section to Integrate US and Israeli Militaries

A blockade of the Strait of Hormuz sounds like a clean, decisive move until you run it through the real world: geography, international law, ship insurance, and the uncomfortable question of what happens when the other side shoots back. We sit down with Lt Col Karen Kwiatkowski to parse Trump’s threat to interdict ships tied to Iranian […]

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said that Rome would not renew its defense pact with Tel Aviv. Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar downplayed the decision. Italy “has decided to suspend the automatic renewal of the defense agreement with Israel in consideration of the current situation,” Meloni told reporters at an event on Tuesday. Rome’s defense […]

President Trump on Monday said that the US and Iran will hold negotiations in Doha, Qatar, on Tuesday despite the two sides trading strikes over the weekend, though an Iranian official denied that technical talks under the US-Iran Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) were scheduled. “IRAN HAS REQUESTED A MEETING. IT WILL TAKE PLACE TOMORROW IN […]