The best War newsletters

ChinaTalk is a podcast-style newsletter offering original analysis and interviews on technology, China, US policy, and military affairs. Recent issues focus on semiconductor export controls such as DUV lithography, drone warfare, and AI competition.

Drop Site News is a reader-funded independent outlet that publishes daily news roundups and original reporting on politics and war, with a heavy focus on the Middle East. Readers get briefings on Iran, Gaza, Yemen, Lebanon and US politics, plus longer on-the-ground features.

Anders Puck Nielsen's video-and-transcript newsletter analyses conflict, security and modern warfare, with a focus on US–Ukraine–Russia dynamics and European strategy. Readers get a personal, argument-driven take on geopolitical developments and what Europe might do about them.

The Fifth is a weekly news digest that explains current events, mainly US politics and the war on Iran, through short numbered story summaries with a clearly opinionated, critical stance. Readers get a condensed, editorialized rundown of the week's major developments and their political implications.

Polemical commentary on West Asian geopolitics, war and empire, written from an openly anti-Western, pro-resistance standpoint with satire and verse. Readers get a strongly partisan interpretation of current conflicts rather than reported news.