Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
Key Points and Summary – China’s “White Emperor” space-air fighter concept, unveiled at Zhuhai 2024, is billed as a sixth-generation near-space stealth jet packed...
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Key Points and Summary – NASA’s X-43 Hyper-X program made history in 2004 when its scramjet-powered X-43A became the fastest air-breathing vehicle ever, hitting...
Key Points and Summary – The US Navy has taken a pragmatic approach to titanium, using it sparingly in high-stress components rather than building...
Key Points and Summary – The F-15E Strike Eagle may lack stealth, but it still holds one crucial title: fastest fighter in the U.S....
Key Points and Summary – China’s J-20 Mighty Dragon has become the symbol of Beijing’s fifth-generation ambitions, but its weaknesses are hard to ignore....
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...
Key Points and Summary – The Italian battleship Vittorio Veneto was no paper tiger. Flagship of the Regia Marina’s Mediterranean fleet, this Littorio-class heavyweight...
Key Points and Summary – Sweden may have joined NATO only in 2024, but during the Cold War it quietly designed its own nuclear...
Key Points and Summary – In 2005 Pacific war games, the Swedish AIP-powered submarine HSwMS Gotland repeatedly “sank” the brand-new supercarrier USS Ronald Reagan,...
Key Points and Summary – The F-22 Raptor was built to dominate the skies, not bomb targets—which is why Lockheed Martin pitched the FB-22...
The global financial and technological order is changing rapidly, and the U.S. must be at the center of these changes. As China aggressively pushes...
It is in the DNA of Star Wars to borrow from other genres. Indeed, George Lucas built his science fiction universe around the visual...
Key Points – Canada’s re-evaluation of its 88-unit F-35 fighter deal, driven by political tensions with the US, faces significant practical hurdles if Ottawa...
Germany’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU)—collectively known as the Union—took power after securing the largest block...
Article Summary: Washington’s proposed 28-point Russia-Ukraine deal—trading Ukrainian territory, NATO aspirations, and war-crimes accountability for a ceasefire and cash—would echo Munich by rewarding aggression,...
Key Points and Summary – Dr. Arkady Moshes argues that Russia’s war in Ukraine has exposed a glaring reality: Moscow has neither a viable...
In October 2024, Iran threatened to abandon the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and pursue a nuclear weapon if attacked by Israel. If history and...
In the wake of Israel’s first rounds of its preemptive military strike on Iran’s nuclear program, aptly named “Operation Rising Lion,” commentators rushed to...
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: North Korea has faced catastrophic losses among its troops fighting alongside Russia in Ukraine, with nearly 50 percent casualties reported....
North Korea and the Change Question: More than two decades ago, a defense and foreign affairs writer could visit China and not be constantly...
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is meeting with important allies during his Indo-Pacific trip, with one notable exception: South Korea, at a time of...
Key Points and Summary – China’s “White Emperor” space-air fighter concept, unveiled at Zhuhai 2024, is billed as a sixth-generation near-space stealth jet packed...
Key Points and Summary – The F-22 Raptor is still the world’s premier air-dominance fighter, but its record is far from flawless. That 1...
Key Points and Summary – In this matchup, Isaac Seitz weighs the U.S. Air Force’s new F-15EX against Sweden’s latest JAS 39 Gripen E....
Key Points and Summary – The Air Force once planned to buy 750 F-22s, but budget cuts and post-9/11 counterinsurgency wars left it with...
Key Points and Summary – In the 1970s, the Air Force’s new lightweight fighter, the F-16, almost made the jump to carrier decks. Under...
