Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
Back in January, U.S. President Joe Biden announced the decision to send Ukraine 31 M1 Abrams main battle tanks. They are coming soon.
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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...
The Navy spent fourteen years trying to turn its last unfinished Iowa-class battleship into a carrier, an anti-aircraft ship, then the missile ship BBG-1,...
The U.S. Navy has known since 2005 that a quiet diesel submarine can slip past a carrier's defenses and score a kill, because a...
For decades, strategists have warned that the aircraft carrier is going the way of the battleship — too big, too costly, too easy to...
On May 1, 1983, an Israeli Air Force F-15 flew ten miles and landed with its entire right wing sheared off two feet from...
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...
Social Security’s funding gap is not a forecast — it is arithmetic. The size of the shortfall is known, the levers that can close...
The Memorandum of Understanding that paused the fighting has collapsed, Farley writes, because it never settled the status of the Strait of Hormuz or...
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...
The US-Iran war has settled into a stalemate Trump can only break by sending in ground troops, argues Dr. Robert Kelly of Pusan National...
A New York Times analysis warns the US-Iran war sits on a 'knife's edge,' with experts urging a diplomatic off-ramp before it spirals beyond...
Iraq's new prime minister spent a week in Washington; Syria's president met Trump at the NATO summit. Frantzman reads the pattern: one envoy for...
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...
On May 21, 2025, a brand-new North Korean destroyer rolled over and partially capsized at its own launch ceremony — with Kim Jong Un...
Back in January, U.S. President Joe Biden announced the decision to send Ukraine 31 M1 Abrams main battle tanks. They are coming soon.
After rookie representative George Santos was outed for lying about just about every facet of his life, a small movement formed, pressuring him to...
Against the backdrop of historical legacies of racial bias in the U.S., stand your ground laws intensify the risks of shooting deaths in an...
Marjorie Taylor Greene Is In Trouble Again: The Congresswoman’s rant, directed at Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, led to the removal of her comments -...
Russian President Vladimir Putin launched his “special military operation” on February 24, 2022, with the main goal of “de-nazifying” the neighboring country.
