Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
Summary and Key Points: The Army says the M1E3 Abrams program is moving up to five years faster, with four prototype tanks slated to...
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Summary and Key Points: The 1995–1996 Taiwan Strait Crisis became a formative military lesson for Beijing: U.S. aircraft carriers could operate near Taiwan while...
Summary and Key Points: The U.S. Navy runs sinking exercises—SINKEX—to learn how real ships absorb damage and how weapons perform when fired in realistic...
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...
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 U.S. Army staff sergeant who died during a 2013 insurgent assault on Forward Operating Base Ghazni in eastern Afghanistan...
Summary and Key Points: The debate over the proposed Trump-class battleship echoes an earlier experiment: the Cold War reactivation of the Iowa-class. -Reactivated in...
Summary and Key Points: F-35 Heading North? Canada’s fighter replacement saga is tightening into a political and financial trap. -While Ottawa publicly reviews whether...
Summary and Key Points: China’s airpower modernization has produced multiple stealth fighters, but its long-range bomber force remains the weak link. The H-6 fleet—upgraded...
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: Steve Jobs’ iconic “richest man in the cemetery” quote, famously shared in 1993, actually predates him by decades, originating with...
Synopsis: Mark Twain, born Samuel Clemens, remains America’s most iconic wit, famously entering and exiting the world alongside the appearance of Halley’s Comet. -His...
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,...
Summary and Key Points: While Confucius is often reduced to fortune-cookie aphorisms, his actual philosophy offered a radical framework for critical thinking and emotional...
“Sphere of influence” has returned as a defining idea, but the real story is bigger than a U.S.-China-Russia triangle. Eight powers—India, Japan, Brazil, Saudi...
Masoud Barzani’s February 6 meeting with SDF commander Mazloum Abdi spotlights a decade of U.S. partnering that helped defeat ISIS in eastern Syria, but...
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: The Army says the M1E3 Abrams program is moving up to five years faster, with four prototype tanks slated to...
Summary and Key Points: As Washington sends a second carrier group to the Middle East, the key question isn’t negotiations with Iran but whether...
Summary and Key Points: Trump’s BBG(X) ‘Trump-class’ guided-missile battleship is pitched as a huge command-and-control platform to replace retiring cruisers. -Renderings and Navy briefings...
Summary and Key Points: USS Gerald R. Ford—America’s most advanced, most expensive aircraft carrier—is being sent back to the Middle East after more than...
Summary and Key Points: China’s anti-access/area-denial strategy is built to hold U.S. aircraft carrier strike groups at risk with long-range missiles, hypersonic glide vehicles,...
