Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
Hezbollah sees Israel as its mortal enemy. The group has stockpiled more than 150,000 rockets under the not-so-watchful eyes of UN monitors. And, yet,...
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Hezbollah sees Israel as its mortal enemy. The group has stockpiled more than 150,000 rockets under the not-so-watchful eyes of UN monitors. And, yet,...
In 1989, the Soviet Union withdrew the Red Army from Afghanistan across the Friendship Bridge back into the Soviet Union. That was not the...
In the nighttime hours of May 10, Hamas terrorists in the Gaza Strip fired multiple rockets at southern Israel. As sirens wailed, Israel’s Iron...
It has now been almost three months since Mohamed Farmaajo’s presidential term in Somalia ended. While Farmaajo has sought unilaterally to continue in his...
The Biden administration has made no secret of its desire to negotiate with Iran. During the campaign, Joe Biden repeatedly criticized the Trump administration’s...
On April 23, 2021, Secretary of State Antony Blinken appointed Jeffrey Feltman, a former US Ambassador to Lebanon and later under-secretary-general for political affairs...
On April 24, 2021, President Joe Biden looks likely to recognize formally the Armenian genocide. Frankly, such a move, delayed for decades because Jewish...
On President Joe Biden’s first day in office, he signed an executive order canceling permits for the Keystone XL pipeline that would have brought...
President Joe Biden announced yesterday that he would withdraw all remaining U.S. forces from Afghanistan to end the “forever war.” Bizarrely, he made the...
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The United States has poured billions of dollars into Somalia in recent years, not only for aid and development but also to support police...