Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
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Now six years old, the U.S. Space Force remains an unusual service—formally independent, yet embedded inside the Department of the Air Force and built...
How the Greenland Crisis Ends: Not with a Bang, but with a Whimper The Greenland crisis is never going to end the way its...
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...
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...
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 U.S. Navy faces a shipbuilding crunch: widespread delays, cost overruns, and major programs being scaled back or reworked, even after shipbuilding budgets nearly...
Russia’s Kirov-class battlecrusier Admiral Nakhimov is back in the water and moving under its own power for the first time since the late 1990s,...
A Washington Post report argues Russia’s strategy of freezing Ukraine into submission is running into a new reality: Ukraine is building an AI-enabled air-defense...
Boeing’s X-32 was built around practicality: durability, straightforward diagnostics, and sustainment kept close to the squadron. It could meet demanding requirements, but it did...
Why Stephen Hawking’s View Of God Still Stirs Debate In Science “I believe the universe is governed by the laws of science. The laws...
Donald Trump has floated the idea of sending Americans $2,000 “tariff dividend” checks funded by tariff revenue, and recently suggested he could do it...
Thomas Alva Edison’s famous line about finding “10,000 ways that won’t work” captures a career built on persistence, iteration, and industrial-scale invention. Born in...
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,...
A 2002 Christmas broadcast line captures Queen Elizabeth II’s core theme: duty to others in a world that pulls attention in every direction. Born...
Donald Trump’s renewed push to acquire Greenland—and threats of tariffs until a “complete and total purchase” is reached—has triggered unusually sharp resistance from European...
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...
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...
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...
A major ICE surge in Minnesota has put the Minnesota National Guard on standby to support local public safety, with troops set to wear...
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s warning that China could knock out U.S. aircraft carriers in “20 minutes” spotlights the hypersonic era: maneuvering weapons above Mach...
1,000 Jets by 2030: Inside China’s Plan to Mass Produce the J-20 Stealth Fighter Numerous public reports are exploding into publication about China’s ability...
Four years of fighting in Ukraine forced Russia to relearn war under constant drone surveillance, electronic warfare, and rapid sensor-to-shooter strikes. Small units dispersed...
Summary and Key Points – During a NATO exercise in the 1980s, a Canadian Oberon-class diesel-electric submarine penetrated the defenses of the USS Dwight...
