Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
The U.S. Air Force is about to unveil the B-21 Raider stealth bomber, its newest aircraft, in just a couple of weeks. On December 2, the...
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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...
On the night of October 25, 1944, a Japanese force pushed north through Surigao Strait and found six American battleships waiting across its path....
The Air Force originally planned to buy 750 Advanced Tactical Fighters. The number came down in stages until fewer than 200 were built and...
The Type 45 destroyer is one of the most capable air defense warships ever built, and it does not like warm water. The WR-21's...
The Makarov is a traditional double-action (TDA) auto pistol, and just like the Beretta 92F, Walther PPK, and Walter P38, not to mention the...
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has unveiled Operation Economic Outcast: secondary sanctions across five sectors and more than sixty targets, with no relief attached. Iran's...
Rezaei's threat goes beyond the strait: no oil leaving the Gulf by any route if neighbors cooperate. In practice that would mean strikes on...
Of the 1.5 billion barrels in emergency stocks, the IEA cannot order the commercial half released, leaving governments under a billion. The American reserve...
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.
The U.S. Air Force is about to unveil the B-21 Raider stealth bomber, its newest aircraft, in just a couple of weeks. On December 2, the...
The Franco-German-led Future Combat Air System (FCAS) project, touted to be Europe’s largest weapons program, has been stalled – but it appears the two...
I’ve ridden in my share of C-130s when I was in the Army. The cargo and transport airplane is loud and will shake your teeth out....
We know the new B-21 Raider has many valuable attributes. It will be stealthy and nuclear-capable. It will have a global reach. It will...
Though many World War I history buffs weren’t all that impressed by Netflix’s take on the German anti-war film All Quiet on the Western...
