Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
In addition to more lethal smoothbore guns, the T-62 featured armor-piercing fin-stabilized discarding sabot (APFSDS) rounds, making this tank particularly advanced for the time...
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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...
Lockheed Martin says a new US Army contract will triple PAC-3 MSE production by 2030, from roughly 600 interceptors a year to about 2,000....
The Luftwaffe sent 8 Eurofighter Typhoons and 150 personnel to Alaska in 2012 for two weeks of Red Flag. In close-range basic fighter maneuvers,...
The F-35 Lightning II reportedly finished Red Flag 2017 with a 20:1 kill ratio, killing aggressor F-16s that never knew they had been seen....
Researchers at the China Aerodynamics Research and Development Centre say they have identified aerodynamic and stability weaknesses in the US Air Force's B-21 Raider...
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...
In addition to more lethal smoothbore guns, the T-62 featured armor-piercing fin-stabilized discarding sabot (APFSDS) rounds, making this tank particularly advanced for the time...
Kamala Harris made history as the first female vice president, but after the fanfare eventually died down, the former California senator also broke new ground as...
If the Democrats want to be the party of the ultra-progressives, they can only win by putting on a moderate mask – and Biden...
Delta Force has historically often been called upon to perform missions with a high risk of failure.
Of three-thousand F-84Gs built, Washington transferred over 200 each to Belgium, Denmark, France, Greece, Italy, Norway and even Communist Yugoslavia as part of the...
