Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
General George S. Patton once said it best: “How can a man fail if he replaces everything subordinate to success?” The legendary “Old Blood...
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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...
On a larger scale, an ongoing wave of retirements of Cold War-era submarines is outpacing the production of new ones. That says a lot...
The FB-22 carried an estimated price of $30 billion. It would have competed for the same scarce tactical air and long-range strike money as...
For the first time in aviation history, a Chinese fighter has flown organized air combat training against the Dassault Rafale. It did not happen...
Early M48s carried a Continental AV1790 air-cooled gasoline V12 producing 810 horsepower, and suffered persistent engine, transmission, track and suspension problems. From the M48A3...
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,...
Analysts dismissed American control of the Strait of Hormuz as a near-impossible task. The US government now says it has been helping tankers move...
Drones reached Moscow on three of the last five nights. A ballistic missile would not extend Ukraine's reach so much as compress Russia's warning...
Georgia Gilholy reports on Trump's map post declaring Hormuz 'New U.S. Territory,' a vessel struck off Oman hours earlier per UK Maritime Trade Operations,...
When it comes to severe economic pressure, Washington has massive options between everything and nothing. Something in the middle that hurts Iran a lot...
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...
Iran's Shahab-1 came from the Scud-B and reached 300km. The Khorramshahr, derived from North Korea's Musudan, reaches 2,000km — a 6.7-fold increase in reach.
General George S. Patton once said it best: “How can a man fail if he replaces everything subordinate to success?” The legendary “Old Blood...
China is close to operating more attack submarines than the United States Navy, and Beijing is rolling out the new SHANG III class with...
The debate over what China’s military is actually for keeps producing the wrong answer because it keeps asking the wrong question. Global power projection...
George C. Marshall once said it best: “Don’t fight the problem, decide it.” That decisive philosophy turned a man who couldn’t even get into...
Dwight D. Eisenhower famously said it best: “What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight—it’s the size of the...
