Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
President Joe Biden sent the USS Gerald R. Ford with its strike group off the coast of Israel, ostensibly to show support and lend...
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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...
"Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do, and they will surprise you with their ingenuity." General George S. Patton...
Lockheed built 188 S-3 Vikings for one job: finding and killing Soviet submarines from the deck of an aircraft carrier. The Soviet Union collapsed...
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...
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...
President Joe Biden sent the USS Gerald R. Ford with its strike group off the coast of Israel, ostensibly to show support and lend...
The Hill published an op-ed by Juan Williams this week called ‘Joe Biden is our third Black president.’ Amusingly, above the headline in bolded letters, was the...
Former President Donald Trump’s fraud trial is underway. The trial threatens Trump’s business, the Trump Organization, which has been a core part of the businessman turned...
President Joe Biden has been known to embellish his upbringing. His attempts to fit in with every audience he speaks to has gotten to...
Following the 2020 census, South Carolina Republicans sought to redraw the state’s seven congressional districts, with a primary objective of favoring the Republican party...
