Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
Russia has taken great strides in modernizing its submarine force, and while it will likely never be as sizeable as the old Soviet Navy’s...
Hi, what are you looking for?
Fighting jointly is how you prevail in an age when not just fleets of warships, and not just navies, but air forces, strategic rocket...
That it’s springtime in the Black Sea is not enough reason to go on the march. Military reality—not the passing of the seasons—has to...
Robert Work is the Rick Grimes of U.S. Marine Corps force design, forever blazing away at faulty ideas.
In The Tragic Mind: Fear, Fate, and the Burden of Power, just out from Yale, Kaplan brings a bleak outlook drawn from Greek tragedy...
The Royal Navy's T-class submarine HMS Thunderbolt has the dubious distinction of sinking twice with nearly all hands on board.
The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday that the United Arabs Emirates has expressed disappointment with American efforts to deter Iran. As a result,...
Commissioned on Oct. 14, 1903 — the date that is now considered the birth of the Russian submarine forces — the Delfin would become...
More than 16 months later, Russian forces are struggling to advance more than a mile on the ground in Ukraine and have suffered more...
Now with any future budget stimulus off the table, the Fed needs to reassess its monetary policy stance - and soon.
A state-sponsored Chinese hacking group called Volt Typhoon penetrated critical U.S. computer networks throughout the continental U.S. and Guam. The group was reportedly able...
“No corner of the global economy will be spared,” was what Mark Zandi, the chief economist at Moody’s Analytics told AP News in a...
The USA can survive just fine with a three year pause on loan repayments. Repayments should be paused indefinitely, or forgiven outright.
A skirmish along the Iranian-Afghanistan border broke out last weekend, resulting in a gun fight that killed three people. Video footage depicting the debacle...
Fears of spiraling escalation seem, at this point, rather overblown. The war is fifteen months old and still limited to eastern Ukraine.
Ending the war based on a neutral Ukraine without express security guarantees from NATO would clearly be an unpleasant outcome for Kyiv’s leaders, but...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is looking ahead to another five-year term. Erdogan won 52.15% of the vote this month in Turkey’s presidential elections,...
The United States spent a combined $6 trillion of money we didn’t have on responding to the novel coronavirus that leeched out of Wuhan,...
Editor’s Note: As with all things COVID-19, we respect our author’s opinions and ideas on this issue – all of their ideas. With that...
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,...
Discussion over Hunter Biden’s 2018 purchase of a pistol from a Wilmington. Del., gun store, despite his admission to having used hard drugs in...
Will the United States Space Force (USSF) become an issue in the 2024 election? Can the service ever detach itself from the political legacy...
Reporters noticed that President Joe Biden forgot to duck as he exited Marine One on the White House South Lawn upon his return to Washington from...
Leading analysts believe that Donald Trump likely will be charged with obstruction of justice and other crimes linked to his year-and-a-half effort to stonewall...
The North Korean threat is real. Pyongyang has proven in recent years that the DPRK intends to not only expand but modernize both its...
North Korea’s missile launches are in the headlines again, and a seventh nuclear test might be on the horizon. For most experts and pundits,...
Despite Biden’s best efforts with South Korea, the summit declaration merely puts a band-aid on a festering wound in the bilateral alliance.
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...
Russia has taken great strides in modernizing its submarine force, and while it will likely never be as sizeable as the old Soviet Navy’s...
After having previously teased its release, Russia recently lifted the veil on its new fifth-generation stealth fighter when it officially unveiled the aircraft at...
China’s ongoing naval modernization efforts are perhaps the most visible manifestation of both the country’s continued military build-up as well as its increasingly global...
Only a few details of Russia’s newly revealed next-generation, single-engine fighter dubbed “Checkmate”,0r Su-75, have been made public, but on Monday, it was announced...
“More tooth, less tail” is a common refrain from defense leaders in search of more combat power as budgets have flatlined. No matter the...
