Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
The USS John C. Stennis is 14 months behind schedule and $483 million over budget. The USS Harry S. Truman begins its overhaul in...
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France is spending $12 billion on the largest warship ever built in Europe — a nuclear-powered supercarrier meant to project Macron's vision of strategic...
Dr. Andrew Latham, Macalester College international relations professor and Institute for Peace and Diplomacy senior fellow, argues America's Tomahawk cruise missile stockpile is being...
Kris Osborn, President of Warrior Maven, reveals the B-21 Raider's role beyond stealth bombing. The Northrop Grumman aircraft will function as an airborne intelligence...
Award-winning journalist Stephen Silver reports on a damning Pentagon assessment revealing the F-35's TR-3 software upgrade was "predominantly unusable" throughout 2024, delivering zero new...
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...
The FS Charles de Gaulle (R91) remains the undisputed jewel of the French Navy and a singular symbol of European strategic autonomy. As the...
The retirement of the Ohio-class SSGNs represents the single largest loss of conventional "magazine depth" in the history of the U.S. Navy. In 2026,...
Steve Balestrieri, former U.S. Army Special Forces NCO and national security columnist, reveals how Ukraine's capture of an intact SAP-518SM "Regata" electronic warfare jamming...
The CF-18 Hornet is the definition of a "workhorse" that has been ridden into the ground. In 2026, the structural fatigue of these airframes...
Isaac Seitz, a Strategic Intelligence graduate and national security analyst, evaluates the parallel journeys of Steve Jobs’ declining health and Apple’s meteoric rise between...
Author and prominent writer Christian D. Orr evaluates the "perspiration-driven" genius of Thomas Alva Edison. As of March 10, 2026, Edison’s legacy—underpinned by over...
Christian D. Orr, a senior defense editor and former Air Force Security Forces officer, evaluates the "fortuitous transitions" of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known globally...
Isaac Seitz, a defense columnist and intelligence analyst, evaluates the diplomatic expertise of Benjamin Franklin and the strategic necessity of the 1778 Franco-American Alliance....
Theodore Roosevelt was a frail, asthmatic child who could barely breathe through the night. His father issued a challenge — "You have the mind...
Ali Larijani wasn't just a senior Iranian official — he was the architect of Tehran's strategic partnership with Moscow, personally managing a $2.5 billion...
Is a coup against Russia's president Putin possible? One expert gives us what the evidence might look like as the war in Ukraine goes...
Reuben F. Johnson, a 36-year veteran of foreign weapons systems analysis and Director of Research at the Casimir Pulaski Foundation, evaluates the "cost-asymmetry crisis"...
Summary and Key Points: Dr. Bruce E. Bechtol Jr., a political science professor and proliferation expert, evaluates the strategic partnership between Iran and North...
Summary and Key Points: Reuben F. Johnson, a veteran defense technology analyst and Casimir Pulaski Foundation fellow, scrutinizes the Ninth Congress of the Workers’...
Korea’s Division Isn’t a Glitch Anymore. It’s a Feature of the New Order The division of Korea was always understood to be temporary. In...
Key Points and Summary – When North Korea stormed across the 38th parallel in June 1950, an exhausted post-WWII US Army rushed a tiny...
The USS John C. Stennis is 14 months behind schedule and $483 million over budget. The USS Harry S. Truman begins its overhaul in...
The "White Emperor" represents one of the most successful accidental psychological operations in modern aviation history. What began as a terrifying glimpse into a...
Red Flag 21 at Nellis Air Force Base marked a historic shift in aerial combat training by introducing high-fidelity "stealth-on-stealth" simulations. The exercise pitted...
The B-21 Raider program has reached a pivotal industrial crossroads in March 2026. As the Pentagon moves beyond the initial "black program" phase, the...
The decommissioning of the Ticonderoga-class cruisers, which carry a fleet-high 122 VLS cells loaded with Tomahawk missiles, creates a structural firepower gap that newer...
