Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
Will Russia Use the Same ‘Bomb them Into the Stone Age Strategy’ in Syria? After first shelling military and strategic targets in Ukraine, Russian...
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The increasingly fraught endgame to the Russia-Ukraine war reflects a larger ongoing debate in the US policy community about who is ultimately responsible for...
The Munich Security Conference and the days that followed, including the senior level US-Russia meeting in Saudi Arabia, have witnessed massive turbulence in transatlantic...
Since the COVID pandemic, Europe has fallen on hard economic times, and the continent’s absolute and relative economic decline has deepened over the past...
As Donald J. Trump takes office as the country’s 47th President, American foreign and security policy are at an inflection point. While analysts routinely...
The famous and now retired F-14 Tomcat fighter (see the video below we shot of the F-14 up close) became known for its unprecedented...
Key Points and Summary: The U.S. Marine Corps is upgrading its F-35B fighters with the UK’s advanced Meteor air-to-air missile, known for its unmatched...
Nobody even considered the bomber a possibility at the turn of the twentieth century. But by the start of World War II, the bomber...
Key Points and Summary: An uneven peace in Ukraine might seem appealing to stop the fighting, but it could dangerously embolden Vladimir Putin. History...
Throughout his run for president, Donald Trump threatened new tariffs. When he took office, he vowed to implement them, on China, Canada and Mexico,...
The passage of the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act in 2024 signaled that the United States would not allow the Chinese...
It’s generally understood that Social Security’s main trust fund will lose the ability to pay out full benefits at some point in the mid-1930s....
Since President Donald Trump implemented his long-threatened tariffs on Canadian imports yesterday the potential scale of the damage they threaten to inflict on our...
Turkey has once again positioned itself at the center of diplomatic efforts regarding the Ukraine conflict. Following high-profile visits to Ankara by Ukrainian President...
In the blink of an eye, the roles have reversed. The U.S. – which had been Ukraine’s biggest arms supplier – has suspended military...
Underlying Donald Trump’s 2025 ‘sort of’ State of the Union address (technically, it was a speech to a joint session of Congress) – delivered...
It would be an understatement to describe the impact of the 28 February 2025 meeting between Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky, US President Donald Trump,...
To the horror of many South Koreans, Donald Trump has returned to the White House. No one, including perhaps President Trump, knows what he...
South Korea’s political turmoil of martial law, impeachments, and vitriolic attacks among its political parties has entered its third month—and it’s likely that several...
The North Korean regime must be celebrating. After years of bad news on its foreign relations, the regime is finally getting what it presumably...
North Korea fired a shot across the stern of the outgoing Biden administration by launching a missile during Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s visit...
Will Russia Use the Same ‘Bomb them Into the Stone Age Strategy’ in Syria? After first shelling military and strategic targets in Ukraine, Russian...
Putin’s Disinformation Keeping The Truth From Its Own People – With more and more videos and still photos of Russian troops being killed and...
On Tuesday, Republican and Democrat legislators proposed new legislation that would ban the import of Russian oil. The legislation was not, however, united. Two...
Peace talks between Ukraine and Russia ended on Monday, with further shelling of Ukrainian cities and cultural targets arriving just a day later. While...
Yes, the idea of flying submarines are actually a thing: America’s special operations forces use a wide variety of vehicles to conduct their covert operations, but few are...
