Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
Seventy-five years ago in August 1945, at least 150,000 people may have been killed in Hiroshima when the first atomic bomb was dropped on...
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The framework seems sound; now let’s see what substance the Pentagon and Biden administration hang on it. Last month the Joint Chiefs of Staff...
This week I returned to the mothership for the first time in a dozen years, to take part in a conference at Vanderbilt University...
Of late there’s been a lively discussion in the halls of U.S. Naval War College in Newport, R.I. (where I serve as the J....
Russia’s year-long onslaught against Ukraine proves, yet again, that the fundamental nature of war never changes even though no war is precisely like another....
The refurbished tanks will be designated as M1A1 SA and sport a 120mm main gun. They are likely coming from the U.S. Marine Corps’...
Russian forces continue to suffer heavy casualties on the ground in Ukraine. This week alone, the Russian military and Wagner Group private military company...
The attacks on Sevastopol also come just a day after Ukrainian drones targeted a Russian train, reported to be carrying Kalibr NK cruise missiles,...
A pair of U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptors landed at Clark Air Base in the Philippines earlier this month, signaling closer defense ties between...
America is Going to Default This Summer – Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) wants to have a confab with President Joe Biden...
French President Emmanuel Macron raised France’s retirement age from 62 to 64 – without a legislative vote. “The move sparked widespread outrage in the French...
By bailing out all depositors—even those who had more than the already insured $250,000 in the banks in question—the federal government has just nationalized...
Banks in centuries past were often formidable buildings, with large columns in the front and big, stout doors. There was a reason for this:...
The Biden administration, which claims to be “pivoting” to the Indo-Pacific, left a diplomatic and security vacuum in the Middle East. China is now...
As Putin walks with the men, he looks to be experiencing discomfort, walking more slowly than he did only days before when he made...
China creates problems for allies in the East and the West. We ought to work together, not just to push back on China’s malicious...
What happens when the world’s two most dangerous humans meet? We are about to find out. Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping are going to...
China’s dramatic shift from draconian restrictions to relaxed COVID-19 rules is likely to cause more economic disruptions than benefits. The poorly performing economy will...
This was the year the word “tripledemic” entered the lexicon. That’s the term for the three different types of illnesses, COVID-19, flu, and RSV,...
Perhaps as many as 90% of China’s 1.41 billion people will come down with COVID-19, said Feng Zijian, former deputy chief of China’s Center...
A new virus has emerged in China and infected around 35 people, sparking concern that a new pandemic could be on the way. Scientists...
Hunter Biden may be merely a cutout for a more extensive operation in which his father, a man who has spent his career at...
To propel his campaign, Trump has brought decades of experience manipulating a desperate-for-clicks media that just loves to hate the mean, old Orange Man...
Golda Meir famously said that if someone repeatedly tells you he wants to kill you believe him. The Chinese, Russians, and Iranians are telling...
Trump has spent years building a political persona around the idea that he is a persecuted individual, the victim of an unrelenting Democratic witch-hunt.
In recent days it has been reported in the Chosun Ilbo (one of South Korea’s most widely read daily newspapers) that if North Korea...
North Korea’s Kim Yo-jong is at it again, making extreme threats. Two weeks ago, the U.S. Indo-Pacific commander, Adm. John Aquilino, reportedly said that...
On Thursday morning, North Korea launched a short-range ballistic missile toward the Yellow Sea just days after Kim Yo Jong, sister of leader Kim...
On March 6, Seoul announced a new plan for resolving the lingering dispute with Japan over compensation for South Koreans forced to labor for...
Seventy-five years ago in August 1945, at least 150,000 people may have been killed in Hiroshima when the first atomic bomb was dropped on...
The exact potential of an advanced weapon system is never really known until it is tested in combat. This was certainly true of the...
Introduced just prior to America’s involvement in the Vietnam War, the M16 was quite different from any weapon in use at the time. It...
Today we almost expect aircraft, especially those designed for extreme high speeds, to have the delta-wing design. It all began with the Convair XF-92A, a...
Back in April 2020 the press office of Rostec announced that the first deliveries of the upgraded 2S7M ‘Malka’ 203mm self-propelled artillery gun have...
