Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
Summary and Key Points: A short cockpit clip from Atlantic Trident 25 shows a French Rafale radar acquiring an F-35A and simulating a missile...
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Summary and Key Points: Hedgehog 2025 in Estonia put 16,000 troops from 12 NATO nations into a battlefield made transparent by drones. -A 10-person...
War on Iran Would Solve the Wrong Problem: Summary and Key Points -A major U.S. strike campaign could severely damage Iran’s nuclear infrastructure, missile...
Summary and Key Points: Building two stealthy sixth-generation fighters in parallel—F-47 and F/A-XX—would strain a U.S. industrial base that has consolidated into a handful...
Putin’s Most Embarrassing Milestone: Ukraine War Now Longer Than WWII Summary and Key Points: Day 1,418 of Russia’s invasion marks a grim milestone: the...
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...
Summary and Key Points: A Philippine FA-50 reportedly scored a simulated “Fox 2” kill against a U.S. F-22 during Exercise Cope Thunder—an outcome that...
Summary and Key Points: USS Nimitz (CVN-68), commissioned in 1975, isn’t just the lead ship of the Nimitz-class—she’s a floating symbol of how American...
Summary and Key Points: With the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln already positioned in the Arabian Sea, the USS Gerald R. Ford...
Summary and Key Points: Pfc. James Anderson Jr., a Compton native, became the first Black Marine to receive the Medal of Honor for heroism...
Summary and Key Points: Some Canadian travelers are being denied entry to the United States by U.S. Customs and Border Protection for reasons ranging...
Summary and Key Points: Stephen Hawking entered Cambridge as a promising young scholar, then watched his body begin to fail. -Diagnosed with ALS in...
Summary and Key Points: U.S.–China tensions spiked after U.S. Coast Guard forces boarded an oil tanker, Skipper, in international waters near Venezuela, detaining roughly...
Summary and Key Points: A new bipartisan proposal would force the largest U.S. data centers to stop leaning on public utilities and instead secure...
Summary and Key Points: Putin could try to freeze the Ukraine war by declaring victory: Russia holds Crimea, much of the Donbas, and parts...
Summary and Key Points: Dr. Robert Kelly argues that a “new nuclear age” is dawning, driven not just by rogue states, but by U.S....
Summary and Key Points: The January 2026 internet blackout in Iran, following protests that erupted on December 28, has exposed the deep failures of...
Summary and Key Points: Benjamin Franklin’s early life was a masterclass in social mobility through industry and intellect. -Born in 1706 and largely self-taught,...
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...
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: A short cockpit clip from Atlantic Trident 25 shows a French Rafale radar acquiring an F-35A and simulating a missile...
Summary and Key Points: Post–Cold War U.S. Navy cuts set the stage, but today’s delays stem from a recurring pattern: unstable requirements, starting construction...
Synopsis: The B-1B Lancer was born as a Cold War nuclear penetrator, built for speed, low-level flight, and deep strikes against Soviet defenses. -After...
Summary and Key Points: President Donald Trump is openly floating Iran regime change while ordering the USS Gerald R. Ford carrier strike group to...
Summary and Key Points: Israel’s F-16I Sufa is built on the F-16D Block 52 foundation, but it’s optimized for long-range, high-complexity strike missions. -Conformal...
