Iron Command

China Built the Carrier Killer. The Hard Part Was Never the Missile. An Iron Command intelligence assessment. Full sourced brief at ironcommand.co. Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fqi74WMPI44

China and America Built Two Different Navies. Each Wins a Different War. An Iron Command intelligence assessment. Full sourced brief at ironcommand.co. Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8lmLGoivII

China Caught Up to America on Drones. That Might Be a Costly Mistake. An Iron Command intelligence assessment. Full sourced brief at ironcommand.co. Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHEf4Hvu0Do

China Built the World's Largest Army. Can It Afford to Use It? An Iron Command intelligence assessment. Full sourced brief at ironcommand.co. Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0ZU-Lz1J34

F-22 vs J-20: America's 187-Plane Problem An Iron Command intelligence assessment. Full sourced brief at ironcommand.co. Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scXvlAcmgT4

America's 11-Year Missile Gap An Iron Command intelligence assessment. Full sourced brief at ironcommand.co. Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AO_N1iqJASk

China's New Drone Carrier Has Something No US Warship Does An Iron Command intelligence assessment. Full sourced brief at ironcommand.co. Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVEW1vV-WKc

China Built 13 Destroyers. America Fired the Guy Who Tried to Catch Up. An Iron Command intelligence assessment. Full sourced brief at ironcommand.co. Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vR64Q3Cq-68

America Builds 1.3 Submarines a Year. It Promised Australia Five. An Iron Command intelligence assessment. Full sourced brief at ironcommand.co. Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PCsmJMUTgE

China Made 300,000 Tonnes of Magnets. America Made 1,300. An Iron Command intelligence assessment. Full sourced brief at ironcommand.co. Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w16u8cE79YU

China Has 40 Frigates. America Has Zero. It Cancelled the Fix. An Iron Command intelligence assessment. Full sourced brief at ironcommand.co. Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJjfCJG9WUo

Beijing's diplomacy around the Hormuz crisis has stopped being defensive. Three observable Chinese moves in the last few days show one architecture at work, and the read-across to Pacific chokepoints is what the analytical mainstream hasn't priced yet. This brief covers: 1. Beijing took the broker slot at Hormuz. Twenty-seven nations in the mission. Zero Chinese participation. Wang Yi positioned a...

The trailing 48 hours in the Indo-Pacific, summarised and assessed. For the first time since 1945, Japan has fired an offensive missile on foreign soil. Pacific Brief is Iron Command's Indo-Pacific intelligence briefing, published three times weekly with a confidence-graded Iron Command Assessment on every story. In this episode: 01. Xi to Trump at the Beijing summit. Taiwan is the most important...

Episode title: Pacific Brief 01 — Australia's AUKUS Paradox, the Wedgetail Reversal, and Taiwan's Budget Cut Episode notes: The trailing 48 hours in the Indo-Pacific, summarised and assessed. Pacific Brief is Iron Command's Indo-Pacific intelligence briefing, published three times weekly with a confidence-graded Iron Command Assessment on every story. In this opening episode: 01. Australia's FY26-...

F-35A Lightning II vs Sukhoi Su-57 Felon — a full intelligence assessment from a former British military intelligence analyst. America's most networked stealth fighter against Russia's most advanced but limited-production platform. Compared across eight categories: stealth, sensors, firepower, kinematics, electronic warfare, network integration, combat record, and industrial sustainability. On pap...

Episode 2. A full intelligence assessment of the US Navy's Virginia-Class Block V against Russia's Yasen-M (Project 885M) — from a former British military intelligence specialist. America's quietest attack submarine against Russia's most heavily armed. Across six categories — stealth and acoustics, firepower, sensors and sonar, speed and depth, build quality, and fleet numbers — which platform act...

A head-to-head comparison of the US Navy's Arleigh Burke-class destroyer and China's Type 055 cruiser. We break down the weapons systems, sensors, doctrine, and real-world combat capability of both platforms — and deliver a clear verdict on which has the edge.