Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
This is the latest installment in my – and 19FortyFive’s – ongoing series on Red Chinese People’s Liberation Army’s (PLA’s) ballistic missile capabilities. As...
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German Foreign Minister Wadephul's fourth Kyiv visit — two days before Ukraine's Independence Day — capped an accelerating shift: Berlin is becoming Ukraine's principal...
The Eastern Flank Deterrence Initiative emerged from US Army Europe and Africa and NATO's Allied Land Command as a concept for restoring deterrence by...
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 Mossberg 500 arrived in the 1960s as an affordable pump-action for hunting and general use. Two decades later, as law enforcement agencies and...
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Supporters of the Ford-class counter that the carrier’s power generation and sortie capacity make it uniquely capable of sustaining high-intensity air operations, and that...
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The Houthis have no warships. It doesn't need any. A blockade holds if shipowners and insurers decide the passage is not worth the risk,...
Speaking in Baghdad on August 20, Iran's parliament speaker warned that military power counts for nothing if the people are hungry. Four days later...
American forces struck Iranian positions preparing to fire mine-carrying missiles into the Strait of Hormuz. Tehran answered with a handful of missiles that reportedly...
Analysts dismissed American control of the Strait of Hormuz as a near-impossible task. The US government now says it has been helping tankers move...
Drones reached Moscow on three of the last five nights. A ballistic missile would not extend Ukraine's reach so much as compress Russia's warning...
Trump ordered Ulchi Freedom Shield cut from eleven days to five before Kim Jong-un had agreed to anything in return. Kim Yo-jong dismissed the...
As President Trump downsizes the Ulchi Freedom Shield war games after South Korea declined to help with Iran, one uncomfortable fact goes almost completely...
Russia has used North Korean ballistic missiles in Ukraine since late 2023. The early shots missed by kilometers. Later ones did not. That combat...
Iran's Shahab-1 came from the Scud-B and reached 300km. The Khorramshahr, derived from North Korea's Musudan, reaches 2,000km — a 6.7-fold increase in reach.
This is the latest installment in my – and 19FortyFive’s – ongoing series on Red Chinese People’s Liberation Army’s (PLA’s) ballistic missile capabilities. As...
“Total failure” is how the German-built Puma schützenpanzer infantry fighting vehicles are now being described. Production of the first batch of 350 vehicles started...
Even if Russia withdrew its forces today, the people of Ukraine would suffer from the invasion and ensuing conflict for years, possibly even decades,...
House Dems Get Their Wish: Trump’s Tax Returns: Democrats have dreamed for years of making Donald Trump’s tax returns public. The idea is to...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is traveling to Washington to meet with U.S. President Joe Biden and deliver a speech to Congress on Dec. 21....
