Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
Earlier this week, hundreds of civilians were reportedly killed in an airstrike on a Gaza City hospital. Within minutes of the blast, Hamas and...
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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...
Summary and Key Points: The US Navy built only 2 North Carolina-class battleships, and one of them holds a record no other battleship on...
In 1916 a board of 5 retired Army generals was given every Medal of Honor the United States had ever awarded — 2,625 of...
General Dynamics took the lightweight F-16, gave it a cranked-arrow delta wing with 120 percent more area, raised the hardpoint count from 9 to...
Vice Admiral Thomas Connolly flew the F-111B himself and then told a congressional committee there was not enough thrust in all Christendom to make...
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,...
Splitting Russia into 4 or 5 states would be neither unprecedented nor strange. There are more than 20 Arab countries. Somalis live across 5....
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...
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...
Earlier this week, hundreds of civilians were reportedly killed in an airstrike on a Gaza City hospital. Within minutes of the blast, Hamas and...
As the situation in Israel continues to deteriorate, the U.S. military is enhancing its military posture in the Eastern Mediterranean.
Hamas, Hezbollah, the PIJ, and other terrorist organizations have launched rocket and projectile barrages toward the Jewish state for years. Indeed, Israel’s Iron Dome...
But will Donald Trump be able to resist himself? Will he be able to keep his mouth shut and honor the two separate gag...
After waiting several months, Ukraine finally has an unspecified number of MGM-140 Army Tactical Missile Systems (ATACMS) in its arsenal. These missiles can destroy logistical...
