Happy New Year everybody, this guest post is by Jack Ryan Johnson a Middlebury undergrad and promising Apprentice GEOINT Wizard who spent a long time looking deeply into and on to PLARF garages and then detailed his findings for us. The People’s Liberation Army Rocket Force (PLARF), the PLA’s strategic and tactical missile force, is …
Guest Post – BAYWATCH: Identifying Signatures of PLA Rocket Force High-Bay Garages
by | 2026-01-06 | No Comments
Possible Oreshnik Deployment in Belarus
by | 2025-12-26 | 2 Comments
A few days ago, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated that “The relocation of the Oreshnik system to the territory of Belarus is nearing completion. We understand where it will be deployed.” But Zelenskyy didn’t share the location! Jon Landay at Reuters asked me whether the team had any idea where Orehsnik might be headed, so …
A Pod of Dynamite
by | 2025-11-15 | No Comments
Jeffrey and Scott watched the new Kathryn Bigelow movie “House of Dynamite” and they both have opinions. The crew talks through both the artistic choices as well as the wonky details. “House of Dynamite” is an interesting take on missile defense and decisionmaking that doesn’t quite commit enough to any philosophical or strategic camp, but ultimately …
A Return to Nuclear Testing
by | 2025-11-03 | No Comments
Donald Trump directed “the Department of War to start testing our Nuclear Weapons on an equal basis” with other countries. The Department of War doesn’t test nuclear weapons, the Department of Energy does all the time in lots of different ways. Some people worried this meant a return to explosive testing, others seemed to think …
