Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
Video footage shared online recently shows Ukrainian tanks on the battlefield fighting tanks operated by soldiers from the self-described Donetsk People’s Republic (DNR). A...
Hi, what are you looking for?
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 USS Zumwalt has been rebuilt at extraordinary cost into the Navy's first hypersonic strike ship, and the number at the center of that...
The USS Gerald R. Ford and its sisters are the most advanced and expensive warships ever built, and they finally work. But the story...
A Chinese research team published a peer-reviewed simulation in which stealth aircraft, advanced sensors, and hypersonic missiles hunt down and destroy America's next stealth...
Summary and Key Points: The Kilo-class submarine entered Soviet service the year Ronald Reagan was elected president. Forty-six years later, Russia is still launching...
Washington and Tehran can't agree whether the Strait of Hormuz is open — Trump declared it open under a new U.S. 'guardian' regime, while...
A single Ukrainian drone forced Russia's largest refinery, in Omsk, to halt operations, knocking out units that make roughly 75 percent of its output...
Iran is moving to charge ships for passing through the Strait of Hormuz — the waterway that carries a fifth of the world's oil...
A film celebrating ten years of China's Y-20 transport slipped in something no other country has shown on official camera: a sixth-generation fighter refueling...
Trump is stuck. He started a war with Iran he expected to end quickly; six months on, the central point of contention is control...
The United States can hit almost anything Iran places near the Strait of Hormuz. It cannot hit the strait itself. That distinction is the...
A Ukrainian drone strike killed three people in the Moscow region over the weekend as Kyiv's deep-strike campaign — now reaching as far as...
U.S. forces hit dozens of Iranian targets in fresh strikes, including the first combat use of one-way attack sea drones, after Iran struck a...
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...
Fake Russian IDs, Orders Never to Be Captured, and 50% Casualties: Inside North Korea’s Secret War in Ukraine The Russian Army has sustained nearly...
Video footage shared online recently shows Ukrainian tanks on the battlefield fighting tanks operated by soldiers from the self-described Donetsk People’s Republic (DNR). A...
Could Putin Use Nukes to Defend Crimea? Following reports of Western officials casting doubt on Ukraine’s ability to retake control of Crimea, NBC News...
If you are not up to speed on the latest technological trends, you may be wondering what the heck are these NFT trading cards...
Donald Trump Hs a New Problem: A brand-new Quinnipiac University poll found that former President Donald Trump’s popularity has cratered to its lowest point...
Could the Russian military attack Kyiv for a second time? Despite the heavy Russian losses, the Ukrainian intelligence reports that it is likely. The Situation...
