Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
The French Mirage 2000 fighter jet burst into operational service in 1984 after several years of development and was eventually flown by nine countries. The single-engine multi-role...
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The Witkoff-Kushner shuttle between Moscow and Kyiv ended, predictably, without a breakthrough — and Andrew Michta argues the failure reveals something deeper than bad...
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...
Nothing about it was arranged. Andy Card asked the president whether he wanted to say something and Bush asked whether it would be appropriate....
Britain planned 12 of these destroyers for around £7,000,000,000. It built 6 for about £6,460,000,000 — over £1,000,000,000 a ship, nearly the price of...
The US has A-10s, B-1s and Super Hornets to carry weight. Most countries that buy the F-35 have nothing else. For Norway, Denmark, Belgium...
New photographs show the Raptor carrying shaped external fuel tanks and two sensor pods — one apparently housing infrared search and track, the capability...
"Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has,...
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...
Michael Rubin's argument at 25 years is that almost nothing was learned. The hijackers were neither poor nor occupied, yet the assumption that grievance...
Twenty-five years on, the familiar verdict is that American intelligence agencies failed to warn. Lieutenant General Wallace "Chip" Gregson argues the failure was broader...
The US and Canada have 3 unsettled maritime disputes: the Beaufort Sea, the Northwest Passage, and a rock in the Bay of Fundy. None...
Splitting Russia into 4 or 5 states would be neither unprecedented nor strange. There are more than 20 Arab countries. Somalis live across 5....
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...
The French Mirage 2000 fighter jet burst into operational service in 1984 after several years of development and was eventually flown by nine countries. The single-engine multi-role...
Recently, Ukraine’s 128th Mountain Assault Brigade posted a video showing an artillery strike on a curious Russian rocket-launching truck seen creeping next to trees...
Some programs are still blueprints; others are outdated legacy programs. The fifth generation F-35 is neither. It’s the most advanced fighter in the world,...
While conservative media has written the same story about Vice President Kamala Harris dozens of times — she’s dumb, she’s a deer in the headlights, her cackle is...
On day 490 of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Russian forces continue to take heavy casualties. Over the last 24 hours, the Russian forces lost...
