Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
Russia has decided to try to win its war with Ukraine by resorting to terror bombing. What chances does the campaign have for success?...
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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 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...
Six months of American and Israeli air attacks destroyed Iranian radars, command centers and S-300 batteries. They did not destroy the network. The proof...
The Air Force did not retire the SR-71 because something better came along. Nothing better exists. On March 6, 1990, Lieutenant Colonel Ed Yielding...
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.
Russia has decided to try to win its war with Ukraine by resorting to terror bombing. What chances does the campaign have for success?...
Ukraine’s victory in Kherson liberated a strategically critical city. While control of the Dnipro River remains in question because of Russian forces along the...
The Hellenic Air Force is one of NATO’s best. Greek pilots routinely achieve top spots in NATO exercises and schools. But geopolitical circumstances force...
U.S. Navy Offical: "Why would Russia put what could be hundreds of millions of dollars into an old aircraft carrier that has had countless...
Republicans have been upset in the midterm elections, causing introspection and recalibration. The defeat, and the corresponding uncertainty, have tainted Donald Trump’s upcoming campaign...
