Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
Summary and Key Points: The USS Preble has demonstrated a new layer of close-in defense by using the HELIOS shipboard laser to neutralize four...
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A Rutgers political scientist argues Russia’s war aims in Ukraine amount to genocide, pointing to a strike on a maternity hospital in Zaporizhzhia, sustained...
Summary and Key Points: Modern land combat is increasingly defined by a “transparent battlespace,” where persistent sensing collapses the old buffer of concealment and...
Summary and Key Points: Building two sixth-generation stealth fighters in parallel could strengthen U.S. airpower, but industrial concentration makes it a high-risk proposition. With...
Synopsis: The proposed Trump-class warship, informally dubbed USS Defiant, is framed as a 35,000-ton “battleship,” but the argument here is that it’s closer to...
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...
Canada’s fighter replacement is no longer just a procurement story—it’s a political trust question. The F-35 promises unmatched stealth, sensor fusion, and seamless NORAD/NATO...
Ukraine’s Sea Drones Broke Russia’s Black Sea Fleet—and Moscow Still Can’t Fix It The “special military operation” in Ukraine has been a disaster for...
Russia is reviving its push to sell the Su-57 to India by offering a Su-57E variant built with extensive Indian industry participation and indigenous...
Summary and Key Points: The T-72, in service since 1973 and produced in massive numbers, is portrayed as the defining tank of the Ukraine...
Yellowstone National Park remains open to visitors during the federal government shutdown that began January 31, 2026, after Congress failed to enact full federal...
Summary and Key Points: Trump’s “Warrior Dividend” sounded like a surprise new benefit funded by tariff revenue, but the money reportedly came from a...
Synopsis: A 1995 interview captures Steve Jobs’ view that money matters mainly because it funds ideas without immediate payoff—yet he insists he never chased...
Summary and Key Points: Born in San Francisco and raised in Mountain View, Jobs fused craftsmanship, counterculture, and ruthless product focus into a new...
Synopsis: Casualty estimates now put combined Russian and Ukrainian losses near 2 million, underscoring a staggering human cost for limited territorial change after four...
Synopsis: Machiavelli’s famous warning in The Prince argues that leaders are safest when feared, because love is fickle and obedience is paramount. -Framed as...
Summary and Key Points: Many famous lines credited to Confucius—including “Our greatest glory is not in never falling…”—are presented here as misattributions, part of...
Summary and Key Points: Thomas Jefferson’s “little rebellion” line comes from a January 30, 1787, letter to James Madison, written from Paris. -He argues...
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 USS Preble has demonstrated a new layer of close-in defense by using the HELIOS shipboard laser to neutralize four...
Summary and Key Points: A 750-aircraft U.S. Air Force F-22 fleet would have reshaped everything from forward basing to maintenance capacity, giving the service...
Summary and Key Points: As the partial federal shutdown enters its fourth day, the National Air and Space Museum remains open because Congress funded...
Summary and Key Points: Wasn’t the battleship supposed to be obsolete? Debate over the proposed Trump-class battleships centers on whether they would be operationally...
Summary and Key Points: The National Museum of the Marine Corps in Triangle, Virginia, has closed to the public indefinitely amid the ongoing federal...
