The Debrief

The daily briefing — what the tracked analysts said, with receipts.

One synthesized read each day: where the sharp voices converge, where they collide, and every claim timestamped to its watchable source.

Carol M. Highsmith, Library of Congress
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The Diesel Shortage Starts in Saudi Arabia

Sep 22
US Naval Forces Central Command
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A Strike Nobody Expects to Work

Sep 21
Sgt Trent A. Henry, US Marine Corps
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Ironclad on Paper: The Gulf War the Market Does Not See

Sep 20
Daniel Torok, official White House photo
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What Riyadh Was Promised

Sep 19
US Air Force, via US Central Command
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The War Pencilled In for November

Sep 18
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The War That Turned on Riyadh

Sep 17
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The War That Turned on Its Sponsors

Sep 16
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The Guarantee That Did Not Answer

Sep 15
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Who Is Blockading Whom

Sep 14
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The Muscat Workaround

Sep 13
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Riyadh Asked Twice

Sep 12
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Checks the Navy Can't Cash

Sep 11
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A Date for Victory, and the Arithmetic Against It

Sep 10
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Iran Called the Bluff, and Moscow Wasn't Buying

Sep 9
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The Ladder, the Skies and the Firewall

Sep 8
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Neither Threats Nor Bribes

Sep 7
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Bombing Policy Out of the Desert

Sep 6
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Out of Missiles, Out of Money, Out of Story

Sep 5
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Three Fronts, One Direction

Sep 4
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The Aging Lion

Sep 3
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The Barrage and the Broken Story

Sep 2
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A Strike in Jordan, and a War Already Judged

Sep 1
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What Half a Year of War Has Built

Aug 30
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Coercion Meets Its Limits in Ukraine and Iran

Aug 29
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Six Months In, Washington Has Not Broken Iran

Aug 28
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Washington Sends Its CIA Director to Moscow

Aug 27
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The Iran War Washington Can't End

Aug 26
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The Sanctions War Reaches China's Banks

Aug 25
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Washington reaches for the last weapon. The pack says it misfires.

Aug 24