Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
Summary and Key Points: Flying in a modern fighter is a bucket-list thrill—but it’s not for the faint of stomach. This rundown spotlights the...
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Summary and Key Points: The dream of a “loyal wingman” is no longer science fiction; it is the operational reality of the U.S. Air...
Summary and Key Points: Trump’s new National Defense Strategy touts a “Golden Fleet” rebuild anchored by Trump-class battleships led by USS Defiant. -At 35,000–40,000...
Summary and Key Points: At roughly $300 million per jet, F-47 NGAD fighter costs are expected to climb as adaptive engines, modular bays, cockpit...
“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...
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: The M48 Patton medium tank stands as one of the most iconic armored vehicles of the Cold War, developed in...
Summary and Key Points: The U.S. Army is aggressively accelerating the development of its next-generation M1E3 Abrams, launching field tests five years ahead of...
Summary and Key Points: The F-14 Tomcat wasn’t just a Top Gun icon—it was a carrier air-defense revolution. -With variable-sweep wings and Mach 2.3...
Summary and Key Points: The F-35’s combat edge increasingly comes from computing rather than airframe performance alone. Sensor fusion pulls EO/IR, infrared, navigation, electronic...
Summary and Key Points: A 1995 PBS interview with Steve Jobs captures a pragmatic view of wealth: money matters because it lets you fund...
Summary and Key Points: The famous “old man” quote captures Mark Twain’s trademark wit—whether or not he actually said it. Born Samuel Clemens in...
Summary and Key Points: Samuel Langhorne Clemens rose from a difficult childhood in Missouri to become Mark Twain, the sharpest comic voice of 19th-century...
Synopsis: Thomas Jefferson’s famous advice—“When angry, count ten; if very angry, a hundred”—came in a February 21, 1825 letter to young Thomas Jefferson Smith....
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...
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...
Summary and Key Points: A popular “Quote of the Day” line often attributed to Abraham Lincoln—“I am not bound to win…”—has no documentary evidence...
“There are four ways of doing things: the right way; the wrong way; the Navy way; and my way. So long as they do...
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: Flying in a modern fighter is a bucket-list thrill—but it’s not for the faint of stomach. This rundown spotlights the...
Summary and Key Points: Taiwan’s first domestically built submarine, Hai Kun-Class (also known as Narwhal), completed its maiden underwater sea trial on January 30...
Summary and Key Points – The SR-71 Blackbird remains an aviation marvel, defined by its record-shattering Mach 3.2 speed and $85,000-foot ceiling. -While its...
Summary and Key Points: The debate over aircraft carrier obsolescence has reached a fever pitch following Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s warning that Chinese...
Summary and Key Points: China is accelerating the great-power technological race with the J-20A “Mighty Dragon,” a “fifth-generation-plus” variant featuring a redesigned airframe and...
