Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
Key Points and Summary: The Kitty Hawk-class aircraft carriers—Kitty Hawk, Constellation, and America—were workhorses of the U.S. Navy from the Vietnam War through the...
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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...
Japan's F-15J is a licence-built Eagle and it was never a complete one. Mitsubishi Heavy Industries assembled most of the fleet in Japan, working...
No Soviet aircraft frightened Western planners like the MiG-25 Foxbat. On paper it was capable of Mach 3.2, powered by two Tumansky R-15B-300 afterburning...
David Peters was stationed at Kadena in Okinawa and took off at 1000 on a Saturday morning in an SR-71 Blackbird. The route ran...
Anyone who saw Oppenheimer remembers Einstein as the film's quiet conscience, and the real man spent a lifetime wrestling with war. He organized against...
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...
Key Points and Summary: The Kitty Hawk-class aircraft carriers—Kitty Hawk, Constellation, and America—were workhorses of the U.S. Navy from the Vietnam War through the...
Key Points and Summary: China’s offer to Brazil of Chengdu J-10CE fighters, potentially with attractive financing, aims to gain access to Brazil’s Alcântara Space...
What You Need to Know: China’s J-20 stealth fighter, known as the “Mighty Dragon,” underscores Beijing’s progress in fifth-generation aviation. Developed by Chengdu, the...
Key Points and Summary: Russia’s Cold War-era Tu-22M bomber plays a crucial role in the ongoing Ukraine war despite its aging design. -Originally conceived...
President Yoon Suk-yeol’s political self-immolation has decapitated the South Korean government and enfeebled its alliance with Washington. Yoon has been impeached and will likely...
