Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
Summary and Key Points: The Admiral Kuznetsov, Russia’s only aircraft carrier, has been plagued by endless failures—from engine breakdowns to fighter jet crashes. -Its...
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German Foreign Minister Wadephul's fourth Kyiv visit — two days before Ukraine's Independence Day — capped an accelerating shift: Berlin is becoming Ukraine's principal...
The Eastern Flank Deterrence Initiative emerged from US Army Europe and Africa and NATO's Allied Land Command as a concept for restoring deterrence by...
For all the talk of spending targets, the Ankara NATO summit's real work happened elsewhere. Europe is being handed responsibility for NATO's conventional defense...
Western analysts fixate on North Korea's missiles. The real danger is speed — a mass artillery-and-missile salvo in the war's first hours, backed by...
Doubling numbers quadruples combat power; doubling quality only doubles it. To offset three-to-one odds, each American jet must be nine times better than each...
The Panzer IV was never supposed to be Germany's main battle tank. Under Heinz Guderian's original scheme the Panzer III would fight enemy armor...
Minsk was condemned three times and survived all three. Sold to a South Korean firm for scrap in 1995, she was passed to a...
Nobody expected the B-25 Doolittle Raid to do material damage. The bomb loads were too light and every planner involved knew it before the...
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has unveiled Operation Economic Outcast: secondary sanctions across five sectors and more than sixty targets, with no relief attached. Iran's...
Rezaei's threat goes beyond the strait: no oil leaving the Gulf by any route if neighbors cooperate. In practice that would mean strikes on...
Of the 1.5 billion barrels in emergency stocks, the IEA cannot order the commercial half released, leaving governments under a billion. The American reserve...
The Houthis have no warships. It doesn't need any. A blockade holds if shipowners and insurers decide the passage is not worth the risk,...
Wars rarely win elections. George H.W. Bush ended the Cold War, won the most decisive American military victory in modern history, and lost in...
Speaking in Baghdad on August 20, Iran's parliament speaker warned that military power counts for nothing if the people are hungry. Four days later...
American forces struck Iranian positions preparing to fire mine-carrying missiles into the Strait of Hormuz. Tehran answered with a handful of missiles that reportedly...
Analysts dismissed American control of the Strait of Hormuz as a near-impossible task. The US government now says it has been helping tankers move...
American doctrine promises that any North Korean nuclear attack will end the Kim regime. The Iran war has just tested that assumption. The United...
Trump ordered Ulchi Freedom Shield cut from eleven days to five before Kim Jong-un had agreed to anything in return. Kim Yo-jong dismissed the...
As President Trump downsizes the Ulchi Freedom Shield war games after South Korea declined to help with Iran, one uncomfortable fact goes almost completely...
Russia has used North Korean ballistic missiles in Ukraine since late 2023. The early shots missed by kilometers. Later ones did not. That combat...
Summary and Key Points: The Admiral Kuznetsov, Russia’s only aircraft carrier, has been plagued by endless failures—from engine breakdowns to fighter jet crashes. -Its...
Time to Retire: For decades, Russia’s sole aircraft carrier, the Admiral Kuznetsov, has been a floating testament to the systemic dysfunction of the Russian Navy. ...
Did the North Carolina-class Battleships Turn the Tide During World War Two? – The United States Navy’s North Carolina-class battleships were known for being...
Aircraft Carriers: Now Just As Obsolete as the Battleships? The American naval strategist Alfred Thayer Mahan explained just how much he thought naval tactics...
Nukes and NATO for Ukraine? In an eye-opening interview released today by Piers Morgan, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky revealed two things he believed would...
