War Desk

Defense Minister Israel Katz details a plan to establish a permanent security zone in southern Lebanon, extending to the Latani River, which includes destroying all border villages and permanently bar...

On Day 30, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) publicly threatened American and Israeli affiliated universities, a move analyzed as psychological and asymmetric economic warfare that ...

On Day 20, two Canadian cargo ships were trapped inside a new Hormuz toll gate, while the fallout from Joseph Kent's resignation exposed how the war was widening both at the chokepoint and inside...

CNBC economists warn the K-shaped economy worsens as Brent crude oil surges past $102 per barrel and diesel tops $5 per gallon, acting as a regressive tax on American consumers. Simultaneously, IDF ex...

President Trump announced Energy Secretary Chris Wright is weighing options to strike Iran's critical Kharag Island oil infrastructure, a move that starkly contradicts Wright's public projec...

A US Navy fast attack submarine fires a single Mark 48 torpedo at the Iranian frigate IRIS Dena off the coast of Sri Lanka, the first submarine torpedo kill since World War II. CENTCOM data shows an 8...

Day 1: The First 24 Hours of Operation Epic Fury and Iran's RetaliationSources for this episode are available at: https://www.wardesk.fm/?episode=ep61About War DeskWar Desk is an investigative po...

This is a War Desk breaking news briefing. On February 27th, 2026, the US State Department authorized the departure of all non-emergency government personnel and their families from the American Embas...

The latest Middle East updates have shifted the war landscape since the series launched. This bridge episode between the time-capsule archive and the live feed examines what has changed, which predict...

This global war predictions assessment synthesizes every signal, trend, and indicator tracked across the series. Which flashpoint is most dangerous, which trigger is closest to being pulled, and what ...

If war with Iran escalates, Iranian retaliation could expand the homeland threat surface to include cyberattacks on critical infrastructure, activation of sleeper networks, and attacks on soft targets...

If war breaks out in the Middle East, Europe's energy crisis deepens. European nations that believed they escaped energy dependency after the Russia shock are still critically exposed to Middle E...

If war with Iran lasts longer than a few weeks, the U.S. missile shortage becomes decisive. The defense industrial base bottleneck is severe: production lines take years to expand, sole-source compone...

The 2026 military draft became more real when the U.S. government quietly changed Selective Service registration to automatic enrollment for all males aged 18-26 in December 2024. This episode examine...

If war breaks out, the 40,000 U.S. troops in the Middle East are already positioned across major bases, carrier strike groups, and forward deployments. This episode examines what that military footpri...

The Israel and Iran conflict has been a shadow war for four decades, fought through assassinations of nuclear scientists, the Stuxnet cyberattack, proxy conflicts in Lebanon and Syria, and direct miss...

This episode tracks how close the world stands to World War 3 as of early 2026, measuring military deployments, diplomatic breakdowns, and escalation indicators across every active flashpoint. Not cab...