Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
Synopsis: The Xi’an H-20 stealth bomber remains a strategic paradox in 2026: a high-priority threat that has yet to achieve operational reality. -While its...
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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...
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: 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...
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 Army’s future M1E3 aims to keep the Abrams relevant against the threats reshaping modern ground combat—especially drones, top-down missiles,...
Summary and Key Points: China’s carrier program is accelerating fast, with the Fujian already in sea trials and reporting suggesting a fourth “supercarrier” could...
Summary and Key Points: U.S. airpower in the Western Pacific depends on a small set of forward bases that are visible, targetable, and vulnerable...
Summary and Key Points: Britain’s Queen Elizabeth-class carriers project impressive, coalition-ready power, but their value clashes with the Royal Navy’s most pressing demands near...
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: Steve Jobs’ iconic “richest man in the cemetery” quote, famously shared in 1993, actually predates him by decades, originating with...
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,...
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...
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...
Synopsis: The Xi’an H-20 stealth bomber remains a strategic paradox in 2026: a high-priority threat that has yet to achieve operational reality. -While its...
Synopsis: With the USS Abraham Lincoln already positioned in the Middle East, reports say the USS Gerald R. Ford is set to deploy toward...
Summary and Key Points: Stealth reshaped modern airpower by enabling aircraft to slip into defended airspace with far lower detection risk—but it came with...
Summary and Key Points: With USS Nimitz nearing retirement and USS John F. Kennedy still not fully ready, the U.S. Navy risks a dangerous...
Summary and Key Points: The B-1B Lancer was built for Cold War penetration, but its modern value comes from standoff striking at scale. -With...
