Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
It’s no doubt that the Ukrainians have used the U.S.-provided M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems, or HIMARS, to their heart’s content. This has...
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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...
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...
After 27 years and roughly $5 billion, Russia has returned the nuclear battlecruiser Admiral Nakhimov to the sea, packed with 80 strike cells that...
This summer, satellite photographs showed Russia bolting lattice cages over the conning towers of its Black Sea submarines, hiding their masts from Ukrainian drones...
The U.S. Air Force just compressed a weapons program that normally takes the better part of a decade into a matter of months, fielding...
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...
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...
National security expert James Jay Carafano argues that although the fighting grinds on, the war in Ukraine is strategically over — and Putin has...
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...
It’s no doubt that the Ukrainians have used the U.S.-provided M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems, or HIMARS, to their heart’s content. This has...
Putin Warned That Ukraine War Could Be Lengthy And Nukes Are an Option: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday said that he could not...
What is the red line or last straw that would make Vladimir Putin choose the nuclear option in Ukraine? It was originally thought that...
Former President Donald Trump had a hell of a Tuesday. First, Trump’s final still-standing midterm endorsee, Herschel Walker, was defeated in the Georgia runoff....
The Kremlin’s forces continue to be pushed back on the battlefields of Ukraine, and Russia’s navy is in a woeful state, so someone in...
