By: Alistair Kroon – SeaPRwire – The latest exchange between the Houthis and Saudi Arabia is not another routine tit-for-tat. It is a deliberate escalation that exposes how little deterrence remains on the Saudi side. On the 16th the Houthis stated that Saudi aircraft had struck most of Yemen’s provinces throughout the week. Their answer […]
By: Gavin Thorne – SeaPRwire – Trump dialed Jensen Huang on stage at the All-In Summit in Los Angeles on 14 September. He demanded the call go on speaker. Huang fumbled with the phone. Trump joked that the man who builds the world’s most complex chips could not put him on speakerphone. The room laughed. […]
By: Marcus Sterling – SeaPRwire – Houthi forces just rewrote the map of the southern Red Sea. In nine days they seized 5,400 square kilometres. The haul includes the Hanish Islands, the Zubab area and Perim Island, the key military point inside the Bab el-Mandeb Strait. Government forces have suffered repeated defeats. The anti-Houthi coalition, […]
By: Marcus Sterling – SeaPRwire – The first official report on the US-Iran war is out. It does not soften the inventory picture. Advanced weapons stocks are short. Replenishment capacity is the bottleneck. Bases across the Gulf took visible damage. That is the core finding released on 14 September. The Department of Defense Inspector General […]
By: Alistair Kroon – SeaPRwire – Saudi Arabia just used a Chinese-made tactical ballistic missile in combat for the first time. The date was 14 September 2026. The target set was Houthi positions after a large attack on Saudi soil. The choice of the DF-15A is the real story. It marks a shift from conventional […]
By: Alistair Kroon – SeaPRwire – Argentina’s defense minister just drew a clear line around the United States. Carlos Alberto Presti stated on the 13th that the US government has not taken sides in the Malvinas sovereignty dispute. The islands are known as the Falklands in Britain. Presti said Washington supports a peaceful solution and […]
By: Gavin Thorne – SeaPRwire – Russia just drew a hard line and left a door ajar at the same time. Putin is in India for the eighteenth BRICS summit. From that platform he restated the red line on European troops in Ukraine and offered unconditional three-party talks. The combination is deliberate. One path is […]
By: Marcus Sterling – SeaPRwire – The two main arteries for global oil just came under simultaneous pressure. One meeting is being arranged to manage Hormuz. One armed group is locking down Bab el-Mandeb. Energy security is no longer a distant risk. It is a live constraint. Gulf foreign ministers plan to meet Iranian Foreign […]
By: Alistair Kroon – SeaPRwire – A core US air base in Jordan took a direct hit and Washington stayed quiet for days. That silence is the real story. Twenty missiles left the ground on the morning of 9 September. The target was Muwaffaq Salti Air Base. The attacker was the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. […]
By: Gavin Thorne – SeaPRwire – Europe keeps warning about over-reliance on American security infrastructure. Britain is doing the opposite. The UK has now spent nearly forty million dollars on SpaceX satellite services. It is the first country outside the United States to confirm public use of Starshield, the military version of the network. That […]
By: Alistair Kroon– SeaPRwire – Oil jumped hard on September 10 because two chokepoints tightened at once. Hormuz stayed contested. Bab el-Mandeb came under fresh pressure from Houthi advances on shore and islands. Benchmark crude cleared one hundred dollars. Diesel in the United States broke six dollars a gallon for the first time. The market […]
By: Alistair Kroon – SeaPRwire – Trump just put a hard date on the Iran war. He says it ends the moment the midterms are over. Not before. The conflict is already in its sixth month. This is the first time he has admitted the timeline runs past November. The claim landed while he was […]