Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
As seen in the short clip a Tor-M2 missile failed to hit the drone. Russia didn't say it was a one-shot, one-kill missile, however
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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...
The second Trump administration is reviewing America's military footprint in Europe, and the worst-case outcome is a full withdrawal. Andrew Michta argues that would...
The US-Iran Memorandum of Understanding is being judged on whether it cools tensions in the Persian Gulf. Strategic-studies scholar Andrew Michta argues that's the...
China's Coast Guard is now flying a naval version of the Z-20 from its largest cutter, and imagery shows a surface-search radar. What it...
The United States is moving special-operations forces, fighter aircraft and medical staff toward the Middle East, with bomber crews in America and Britain on...
The Kremlin appears to be preparing a new mobilization, according to an ISW assessment, with the Duma opening military contracts to people carrying unexpunged...
A Russian Su-57 stealth fighter crashed during a training flight in Moscow Oblast, with the pilot ejecting safely after witnesses say he steered the...
No vessel entered any of the three Ukrainian ports in the Odesa region on Wednesday, the first such day since the grain corridor opened...
Oil futures are signaling that traders expect prices to fall over the coming months, despite the war and the disruption around Hormuz. The bet...
Ukraine's long-range drone strikes on Russian refineries have spread the fuel crisis into the countryside just as harvest begins, one analyst argues, with farmers...
Two tankers loaded with Saudi crude reversed course in the Red Sea — without being fired on — after the Houthis threatened any ship...
Trump is underwater in all fifteen polls in the RealClearPolling average, and one election analyst traces the slide to Iran. A Washington Post survey...
American forces struck Iran for an eleventh straight night as the Houthis pressed their blockade threat against Saudi shipping. Only three commodity vessels crossed...
The Houthis have declared a maritime embargo on Saudi shipping through the Red Sea, and the threat alone is working: four tankers changed course...
With Iran's foreign minister ruling out concessions or any reopening of Hormuz, one analyst argues the only way to stop Tehran's attacks on shipping...
North Korea has roughly 60 nuclear weapons and Kim Jong-un keeps demanding an exponential increase. Bruce Bennett works the problem backward, from Kim's objectives...
Xi's first Pyongyang visit in seven years, a ratified Russia pact, and a declaration that the arsenal is permanent: Andrew Latham on why the...
Last year North Korea's newest destroyer rolled over at its own launch, and the world assumed the program was finished for years. Instead Pyongyang...
The KN-23, North Korea's version the Russian Iskander missile, showed up to fight in the Ukraine war. And it isn't the same platform as...
As seen in the short clip a Tor-M2 missile failed to hit the drone. Russia didn't say it was a one-shot, one-kill missile, however
Over the past few weeks, the Russian military has launched waves of missile and drone attacks against Ukraine. However, the Ukrainian air defenses have repelled...
Austin Sarat, a professor jurisprudence and political science at Amherst College, raises an interesting point in a recent MSNBC opinion piece: progressives who typically...
Mike Pence is officially running for president: The former vice president has officially filed papers to run for president, becoming the latest in a...
Smith & Wesson is one of the Big Three American-born (in other words, not counting foreign headquartered firms with U.S. subsidiaries) handgun manufacturers –...
