Jemal R. Brinson

Oct 9, 2024 | wsj.com | Deborah Acosta |Jemal R. Brinson |Arian Campo-Flores

As the co-president at Coastal Construction Group of South Florida, one of the largest construction firms in the state, Murphy has had extensive experience building structures to withstand hurricane-force winds. Now he is taking all of that expertise and distilling it into his eight-bedroom mansion in Miami’s waterfront community of Coconut Grove. The unique hurricane-proof elements that he built into the home added about 15% to the cost of construction.

May 12, 2024 | wsj.com | Alistair MacDonald |Jemal R. Brinson |Emma Brown |Ievgeniia Sivorka

Updated May 13, 2024 12:04 am ETListen to article(2 minutes)Ukraine is shooting down a far smaller proportion of Russian missile attacks than it was earlier in the war. The worsening performance of Ukraine’s air defenses comes as Russia increases drone and missile attacks, and fires more harder-to-hit weapons, such as ballistic missiles. Kyiv is also running low on ammunition for the Western-supplied Patriot systems that have been its best defense against such attacks.

Jan 13, 2024 | wsj.com | Jemal R. Brinson |Juanje Gómez |Daniel Michaels |Stephen Kalin

Uncrewed vehicles make combat faster, cheaper and smarter, as shown in Ukraine’s fight against Russia and Houthi attacks in the Red SeaDrones are transforming warfare, from Red Square to the Red Sea. Over the past decade, uncrewed aerial vehicles—and recently naval vessels—have put increasingly lethal and effective military equipment in the hands of insurgent groups such as Islamic State, Yemen’s Houthi rebels and underdogs like the Ukrainian military.

Oct 14, 2023 | wsj.com | Daniel Nasaw |Jemal R. Brinson |Adrienne Tong

Ticonderoga-Class Guided-Missile Cruiser The USS Normandy, a Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser launched in 1988, carries a crew of more than 300 and is equipped with antisubmarine, Harpoon antiship missiles and Tomahawk land-attack missiles. Speed: 30-plus knots.

Sep 2, 2023 | realcleardefense.com | Anastasiia Malenko |Juanje Gómez |Jemal R. Brinson |Emma Brown

Russia’s Vast Fortifications in Ukraine, Visualized When Ukrainian forces launched a counteroffensive in early June, they soon became bogged down in an elaborate defense network of obstacles that Russia spent months building. On Thursday, Ukrainian troops penetrated the main Russian defensive line, raising hopes of a breakthrough in its effort to cut south and slice occupation forces in two. Read Full Article »