Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
Russia’s only aircraft carrier, Admiral Kuznetsov, is back in the news, and not for anything remotely impressive. Not because it sailed anywhere. Not because...
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Russia’s only aircraft carrier, Admiral Kuznetsov, is back in the news, and not for anything remotely impressive. Not because it sailed anywhere. Not because...
Summary and Key Points: Canada’s Leopard 2 tanks, integral to NATO commitments and battlefield success in Afghanistan, face an uncertain future amid budget constraints...
There’s nothing routine about B-2 stealth bombers touching down at Diego Garcia. The island—remote, fortified, and just within reach of Iran—is one of the...
A fiasco, according to Orlando Bloom’s character in Elizabethtown, is not just a disaster — it is a disaster of mythic proportions. That’s the...
I stood in the room when the Ottawa Treaty was signed. As a Doctoral Fellow working with Canada’s then-Department of Foreign Affairs and International...
In the golden age of American unipolarity, quantity took a back seat to quality. The U.S. military could afford to design exquisite platforms, produce...
Could the Boeing F-47 Fighter Soon Be For Sale? When the U.S. developed the F-22 Raptor in the 1990s, it made a clear decision: no...
Summary and Key Points: The Boeing F-47, centerpiece of the U.S. Air Force’s Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) program, marks a pivotal shift from...
Imagine a scenario in which Australia finds itself in a military standoff with China but does not have the nuclear-powered submarines it was promised...
Article Summary and Key Points: Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine isn’t about influence or negotiations—it’s a battle to secure territories formally annexed into Russia’s...