Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
Recently, the U.S. Navy worked with the U.S. Marine Corps on a strategic exercise in the Indo-Pacific with an eye toward China. Exercise Koa...
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Iran: A War at the Wrong Time and Place: As the war in Iran continues and analysts debate how long it will last and...
Strategic expert Andrew A. Michta explores how Russia is capitalizing on the Iran War to consolidate gains in Europe. With U.S. resources drained and...
Key Points and Summary – The recent NATO summit in The Hague, where European allies agreed to a new 5% of GDP defense spending...
The Trump administration made the Russia-Ukraine ceasefire its priority foreign policy initiative shortly after the inauguration. Setting aside Donald Trump’s campaign rhetoric that he...
Sceptre is Coming to Change Artillery: For centuries, artillery has been described as the king of the battlefield. Today, the adage still holds true....
The U.S. Navy’s proposed Trump-class battleship, with a preliminary price tag of $17 billion, has generated debate and attention at the Navy League’s Sea-Air-Space...
The B-21 Raider is surely one of the most advanced aircraft the U.S. has ever flown. With state-of-the-art stealth and sensor capabilities, it is...
One of the defining features of Operation Epic Fury, a high-intensity air and sea campaign against Iran, was an unprecedented level of missile expenditure....
Many geologists worldwide are seeking game-changing rare-earth elements. China processes these minerals used in cell phones, weapons systems, and other 21st-century products. Now, miners...
The Southwest Florida (SWFL) region is experiencing a severe drought. With rainfall deficits running over 13 inches, the Southwest Florida Water Management District has...
Why Did the Gulf of Panama Miss Out on Upwelling Last Year? The Gulf of Panama has long enjoyed a phenomenon known as “upwelling,...
Summary and Key Points: thirteen-year-old boy hiking through a field in Germany — at a location near Berlin that had previously been documented as...
The latest change to how things work in the military is the U.S. Army’s recent announcement of new retirement rules. The announcement came in...
Putin is the Head of a Russian State on the Brink of Economic Collapse: Leonid Putin, meet Vladimir Brezhnev. Serious Russian economists are increasingly...
An internal Pentagon email circulated this week by Elbridge Colby, the U.S. Defense Department’s top policy adviser, examined options for punishing NATO allies that...
As the war in Ukraine enters its fourth year of hostilities, the dynamics on the ground and in the air are shifting. Having traveled...
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...
Summary and Key Points: Dr. Bruce E. Bechtol Jr., a political science professor and proliferation expert, evaluates the strategic partnership between Iran and North...
Summary and Key Points: Reuben F. Johnson, a veteran defense technology analyst and Casimir Pulaski Foundation fellow, scrutinizes the Ninth Congress of the Workers’...
Korea’s Division Isn’t a Glitch Anymore. It’s a Feature of the New Order The division of Korea was always understood to be temporary. In...
Recently, the U.S. Navy worked with the U.S. Marine Corps on a strategic exercise in the Indo-Pacific with an eye toward China. Exercise Koa...
The Iranians are at it again. Known for annoying U.S. Navy warships with small, fast-attack boats, now the Iranian navy is buzzing American vessels...
China and Russia are rapidly expanding their strategic ballistic missile arsenals. China recently tested an intercontinental hypersonic weapon that would allow it to strike...
Four B-1B Lancer bombers and nearly 200 airmen are now deep in the heart of Texas after a four-month deployment to Royal Air Force...
What is the point of having the best and most advanced military aircraft in the world if you can’t fly them? What would happen...
