Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
According to data from the United Nations refugee agency, UNHCR, 4.5 million Ukrainian citizens have fled the country so far. How many refugees will...
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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...
Every debate about the greatest fighter becomes the Jordan-versus-LeBron argument, and this series already made its LeBron case: the F-16, still getting signed at...
The Type 10 main battle tank is a technological marvel: a lightweight, network-linked, actively suspended machine with an autoloaded 120mm gun, built by Mitsubishi...
This week a 41-year-old free agent is deciding which team gets him for an unprecedented 24th season, and a third of the league is...
Nearly every "best tank" ranking crowns the American M1 Abrams, and with good reason, but that buries a more interesting question: what is the...
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...
A decade after it surfaced, China's H-20 has no flying prototype and no production line. The reasons are industrial, not financial: an intercontinental flying...
National security expert James Jay Carafano argues that although the fighting grinds on, the war in Ukraine is strategically over — and Putin has...
President Trump arrived at the NATO summit in Ankara and threatened to withdraw substantial U.S. forces from Europe unless Denmark softens its grip on...
Cheap drones can make a Chinese assault on Taiwan bloodier and a quick victory less likely — but they don't repeal geography or remove...
The expectation that cutting U.S. aid would force Ukraine to fold is dead: Russia cannot win this war without a mass mobilization or nuclear...
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...
According to data from the United Nations refugee agency, UNHCR, 4.5 million Ukrainian citizens have fled the country so far. How many refugees will...
Former President Donald Trump had a rough midterm. Although results are still pouring in, Trump’s candidates appear to have lost wholesale, raising questions about...
The commander of Russian forces in Ukraine claimed today that his forces had chosen to withdraw from Kherson for positions he said were more...
The Republican red wave failed to materialize. And while Republicans are still expected to win the House, it was a primarily disappointing night for...
China Strikes Back With Its Plans for a Sixth-Generation Fighter: We have extensively discussed China’s fifth-generation fighter – the J-20 Mighty Dragon, which is...
