Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
Northrop Grumman has released a new promotional video showing a notional design for the U.S. Navy’s secretive F/A-XX next-generation carrier fighter, just hours after...
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After years of speculation about when a decision would be announced and who would be the winner of the biggest fighter program in its...
The U.S. Navy is currently undertaking a significant review of its future aircraft carrier force, with particular focus on the next-generation Ford-class carriers. This...
Surface-fired hypersonic missiles, 600kw lasers, high-velocity rounds, and a 32 Megajoule Railgun are a few of the weapons systems expected to be built into...
Key Points and Summary: The U.S. Navy’s most technologically advanced surface warships — including the Ford-class aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford and the...
Iran: A War at the Wrong Time and Place: As the war in Iran continues and analysts debate how long it will last and...
Strategic expert Andrew A. Michta explores how Russia is capitalizing on the Iran War to consolidate gains in Europe. With U.S. resources drained and...
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...
There is something almost theatrical about the way USS New Jersey kept refusing to retire. But sitting standing on the deck of the USS...
In the early 2000s, I visited the USS Connecticut in dry dock while she was getting repairs, completely out of the water, and the...
Key Points and Summary – United States Navy sailors face deployment cycles ranging from six to twelve months aboard surface combatants, submarines, and aircraft...
In addition to being the ocean’s most abundant and widely consumed tuna species, the Skipjack tuna (scientific name Katsuwonus pelamis) is also an efficient...
“Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly and then focus on improving your other innovations.” – Steve...
“Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me…Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful…that’s what matters to me…”...
Since 2020, Mexico has been building a 300+ kilometer-long land bridge connecting the Pacific and the Atlantic. The goal of the Interoceanic Corridor of...
Key Point: The Walt Disney Company has raised peak-day ticket prices at the Walt Disney World Resort’s Magic Kingdom theme park to approximately $219...
An internal Pentagon email circulated this week by Elbridge Colby, the U.S. Defense Department’s top policy adviser, examined options for punishing NATO allies that...
As the war in Ukraine enters its fourth year of hostilities, the dynamics on the ground and in the air are shifting. Having traveled...
Donald Trump’s Way of War: An American Tradition At first, conventional minds worried that President Donald Trump’s campaign against Iran would draw us into...
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia – Defense and aerospace industrial firms from the Islamic Republic of Iran that had been scheduled and confirmed to participate in Defense...
Fake Russian IDs, Orders Never to Be Captured, and 50% Casualties: Inside North Korea’s Secret War in Ukraine The Russian Army has sustained nearly...
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...
Northrop Grumman has released a new promotional video showing a notional design for the U.S. Navy’s secretive F/A-XX next-generation carrier fighter, just hours after...
The USS Massachusetts (BB-2) was so badly designed it would tilt sideways when its guns rotated. It killed its own crew in turret and...
The U.S. Navy is asking Congress for a massive $377.5 billion share of the Pentagon’s fiscal year 2027 budget request, a 24.3% increase over...
The Russian Navy has upgunned, modernized, and revamped its massive yet somewhat antiquated Cold War-era battlecruisers by adding advanced interceptor missiles, close-in ship defenses,...
The conventional assumption, perhaps Hollywood-driven, is that nuclear submarine command is the most stressful leadership post in the Navy—nuclear reactors, confined spaces, ocean depths,...
