Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
Russia has condemned the UK's and Germany’s move to send the tanks, and Kremlin officials have vowed that the Western MBTs will "burn" on...
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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...
When the Soviet Union broke up, Moldova found itself with 34 MiG-29 Fulcrums and no money to maintain them, no pilots to spare and...
Glock's model numbers confuse people for good reason. The Glock 17 is named partly for Gaston Glock's seventeenth patent and partly for its 17-round...
Tail number 61-7974 was tracking Soviet naval activity off the Kola Peninsula at Mach 3 and 83,000 feet when the right engine unstarted. The...
The fastest air-breathing aircraft ever flown was twelve feet long, weighed about 3,300 pounds, carried nobody, and was designed to be thrown away. On...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
Russia has condemned the UK's and Germany’s move to send the tanks, and Kremlin officials have vowed that the Western MBTs will "burn" on...
On Monday night, Trump finally returned to Fox News for real, for another interview with Hannity, for which the Fox host traveled to Mar-a-Lago. Trump aired numerous...
The 20-second-long clip was shared by Ukraine Weapons Tracker (@UAWeapons). It has been seen nearly 300,000 times since being posted. The truck had been...
Despite Trump’s endless braggadocio, DeSantis is a real competitor. He may need to get better at swinging punches at the raging Trump—and he does,...
In the minute and forty-six-second long clip, a Ukrainian drone can be seen dropping a hand grenade onto a Russian BM-21 Grad 122mm multiple...
