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A U.S. Air Force B-52 Stratofortress aircraft, assigned to the 96th Bomb Squadron from Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana, flies over spectators at the Dubai Airshow 2025, Nov. 17, 2025, at the Al Maktoum International Airport in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The B-52 flew from Rota, Spain, to participate in the event, showcasing U.S. airpower on a global stage. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Tylin Rust) A U.S. Air Force B-52 Stratofortress aircraft, assigned to the 96th Bomb Squadron from Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana, flies over spectators at the Dubai Airshow 2025, Nov. 17, 2025, at the Al Maktoum International Airport in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The B-52 flew from Rota, Spain, to participate in the event, showcasing U.S. airpower on a global stage. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Tylin Rust)

Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security

Europe Won’t Fight The U.S. Over Greenland—But It Could Evict American Forces American President Donald Trump has significantly ramped up his bellicose rhetoric about...

Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security

M1E3: 19FortyFive Saw This Tank Upclose (Summary and Key Points) -A prototype of the U.S. Army’s next-generation main battle tank, the M1E3 Abrams, appeared...

Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security

Greenland is unlikely to fracture NATO as an institution, but it could weaken what matters most: deterrence credibility. If Washington applies visible pressure on...

Trillions - 19FortyFive

Analysts tracking China’s structural macro risks warn that 2026 could bring a rare convergence of seven destabilizing pressures. The warning set spans widening pension...

Dr. Andrew A. Michta: Geostrategy

Dr. Andrew A. Michta: Geostrategy

Key Points and Summary – The recent NATO summit in The Hague, where European allies agreed to a new 5% of GDP defense spending...

Dr. Andrew A. Michta: Geostrategy

The Trump administration made the Russia-Ukraine ceasefire its priority foreign policy initiative shortly after the inauguration. Setting aside Donald Trump’s campaign rhetoric that he...

Dr. Andrew A. Michta: Geostrategy

The strain in US-European relations under the second Trump administration stems primarily from a deepening ideological divide, not just policy disputes over trade or...

Dr. Andrew A. Michta: Geostrategy

Since the ill-fated Oval Office meeting between Presidents Trump and Zelensky, the headlines have been dominated by pronouncements about the end of NATO, the...

Smart Bombs

Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security

The Midway-class carriers were conceived in World War II as tougher, better-protected successors to earlier flattops—incorporating British lessons on armored flight decks while still...

Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security

The U.S. Army is moving women drill sergeants from the long-used bush hat to the same brown campaign “Smokey Bear” hat worn by men,...

Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security

Great-power competition is making hypersonic missiles a central measure of deterrence. Bloomberg reports the Army missed its end-2025 deadline to field the Dark Eagle...

Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security

The proposed Trump-class battleship concept centers on a large, high-power hull built to carry next-generation weapons and dense magazines. The design envisions 128 Mk-41...

Trillions

Trillions - 19FortyFive

A new U.S. State Department travel advisory (Level 2: “Exercise Increased Caution”) urges visitors to Jamaica to account for elevated crime risk, gang-related violence,...

Trillions - 19FortyFive

Stephen Hawking’s “advanced monkeys” quote frames Earth as small and ordinary, yet home to a species capable of understanding the universe—and that capacity, he...

Trillions - 19FortyFive

Benjamin Franklin rose from a Boston apprentice to a Philadelphia printer who treated the press as a tool for virtue and free speech. He...

Trillions - 19FortyFive

Summary and Key Points – A Brookings Institution analysis estimates net migration turned negative in 2025—between –10,000 and –295,000—driven by fewer entries and higher...

The Embassy

The Embassy

A Greenland dispute is framed as more than a transatlantic spat—it’s a stress test of Europe’s moral consistency. The argument holds that Trump’s rhetoric...

The Embassy

Donald Trump’s transactional instincts could tempt him to treat Iranian regime change like Ukraine or Venezuela: help, but only for a commercial payoff. That...

The Embassy

Summary and Key Points – Trump’s apparent enthusiasm for dramatic, made-for-television interventions risks dragging the United States back into the classic problem of military...

The Embassy

What Is Trump’s Real Strategy on Iran? Much of the commentary on Donald Trump’s approach to Iran begins from a familiar assumption: that he...

Hermit Kingdom

Hermit Kingdom

Key Points and Summary – When North Korea stormed across the 38th parallel in June 1950, an exhausted post-WWII US Army rushed a tiny...

Hermit Kingdom

Key Points and Summary – North Korea’s special operations forces are often overlooked, but estimates place them among the world’s largest elite formations. -Designed...

Hermit Kingdom

Key Points and Summary – North Korea’s most underrated weapon isn’t its nukes or artillery, but its vast tunnel network under and around the...

Hermit Kingdom

Summary and Key Points: –North Korea‘s deployment of 15,000 troops to support Russia in Ukraine offers critical battlefield experience that could significantly enhance its...