Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
Summary and Key Points: The F-22 Raptor’s reputation for stealth and dominance took a hit after drills in 2012, where German Eurofighter Typhoons scored...
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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: George S. Patton believed wars were won by the spirit of the men who fight and the leader who drives...
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...
Summary and Key Points: The F-22 Raptor’s dominance was briefly overshadowed by a strange, high-stakes problem: pilots reported hypoxia-like symptoms while flying a jet...
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: The F-22 Raptor’s reputation for stealth and dominance took a hit after drills in 2012, where German Eurofighter Typhoons scored...
Summary and Key Points: U.S. Navy aircraft carriers remain the most flexible tool for global power projection, but their dominance is being tested by...
Can Iran Really Close The Strait Of Hormuz? Here’s How It Would Try: Summary and Article Key Points -Iran can disrupt the Strait of...
Quote of the Day: Ulysses S. Grant’s Brutally Simple Art of War (Summary and Key Points) -Ulysses S. Grant’s Civil War legend wasn’t built...
Summary and Key Points: Russia’s MiG-35 was pitched as a modernized MiG-29 successor with longer range, an AESA radar, and a lower cost per...
