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NOTE: Revisiting Golden Dome, what the numbers confirm
Revisiting a file already covered only makes sense if the numbers, once rechecked, confirm or qualify what was announced the first time; that is…
FACT CHECK: The Pentagon's historic budget and the context we forget
A historic figure never exists alone; it only takes on its real meaning once placed against the budgetary history that preceded it, without which…
PORTRAIT: Decoding American military space in three movements
A military budget is never read in a single glance; it must be decoded in layers, each one revealing a distinct strategic priority behind…
COMMENTARY: Russian oil sanctions, between rhetoric and measured reality
Between the announcement of a sanction and its measured reality often stretches a space that political rhetoric prefers to ignore; it is precisely in…
COLUMN: The Pentagon crosses the symbolic $1.01 trillion threshold
A trillion dollars doesn't sound like an ordinary number; it sounds like a confession, one made by an era that chose its budget before…
EDITORIAL: The $185M arms sale to Ukraine, what Washington is really signaling
One hundred and eighty-five million dollars, against a defense budget of nearly a trillion, is almost nothing; and that is precisely why the figure…
INVESTIGATION: Lukoil, a strategic reading of American sanctions
A deadline pushed back three times is never a mere administrative detail; it is the visible trace of an economic arm-wrestling match whose outcome…
REPORT: A look at the Pentagon's $15.1 billion for cyber
Behind the headlines devoted to fighter jets and aircraft carriers, a quieter budget line deserves a factual accounting: cybersecurity within the Pentagon's fiscal year…
DECODING: PURL, a cold read one month later
A month after the last published figures, it is time to revisit the PURL program with the distance that breaking news never really allows.