Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
Summary and Key Points: Napoleon’s line about strength through defeat lands because his career delivered both brilliance and calamity. -Trafalgar shattered any realistic path...
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With AUKUS Virginia-class submarines squeezed by U.S. production limits and U.S. Navy demand, an alternative idea emerges: transferring retiring B-2 Spirit stealth bombers to...
Operation Sindoor’s three-day clash in May 2025 delivered a paradox: restraint without resolution. India struck Pakistani-linked militant targets to reassert deterrence below the nuclear...
Internal tabulations from Iran's Health Ministry indicate that over 30,000 protesters were killed by security forces between January 8-9, 2026, a toll so high...
Summary and Key Points: Despite anxiety over the scheduled 2026 retirement of the USS Nimitz, Dr. Andrew Latham argues that decommissioning the 50-year-old carrier...
Key Points and Summary – The recent NATO summit in The Hague, where European allies agreed to a new 5% of GDP defense spending...
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...
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...
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...
General George Patton’s famous maxim, "Success is how high you bounce when you hit the bottom," perfectly encapsulates his own career trajectory during World...
Summary and Key Points: Chinese researchers affiliated with the China Aerodynamics Research and Development Centre (CARDC) claim to have identified aerodynamic and stability limitations...
Summary and Key Points: Russia’s Su-35 Flanker is a highly refined evolution of the Su-27 line—built to bridge delays in the Su-57 and sell...
Summary and Key Points: Russian officials pitch the MiG-41 as a revolutionary successor to the MiG-31—Mach 4–5 speed, near-space altitudes, and even hypersonic-missile interception....
Summary and Key Points: A widely shared quote—“Never argue with stupid people…”—is commonly attributed to Mark Twain, but no credible record ties it to...
Summary and Key Points: Despite being the face of the one-hundred-dollar bill, Benjamin Franklin famously warned that “money never made a man happy,” believing...
Summary and Key Points: Mark Twain—born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in 1835—rose from a modest Missouri upbringing into one of America’s defining writers and satirists....
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...
Everyone Is Asking the Wrong Question About Trump’s Foreign Policy Washington keeps circling the same argument about Donald Trump’s foreign policy. Some insist there...
Dwight D. Eisenhower’s most enduring leadership insight is simple: real authority is persuasion, not compulsion. The leader’s job is to align mission and motivation...
World War III in 2026? Five Flashpoints That Could Spark a Bigger War The rules-based international order seems to be breaking down. The United...
Summary and Key Points: A 2002 Christmas broadcast line—about modern life’s demands and the growing need to remember our responsibilities to others—captures Elizabeth II’s...
Key Points and Summary – When North Korea stormed across the 38th parallel in June 1950, an exhausted post-WWII US Army rushed a tiny...
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...
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...
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...
Summary and Key Points: Napoleon’s line about strength through defeat lands because his career delivered both brilliance and calamity. -Trafalgar shattered any realistic path...
Summary and Key Points: The B-21 Raider is positioned to replace aging B-2s and B-1Bs, but the planned buy of 100 bombers may be...
Summary and Key Points: USS John F. Kennedy (CVN-79) is meant to be the next major step in the Ford-class transition, bringing EMALS, Advanced...
A major U.S. naval deployment into 5th Fleet waters comes as Iran warns that any strike on its territory would trigger “all-out war.” The...
Summary and Key Points: “Make no little plans” is most strongly tied to architect Daniel Burnham and the 1909 Plan of Chicago, a Progressive-era...
