Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
In an era of great power competition, U.S. forward-deployed forces face a growing threat from potential adversaries’ long-range missiles and sophisticated air defenses. These...
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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...
The Pentagon has found its next great, expensive obsession: the sixth-generation warplane. Already, the Trump administration authorized the procurement of the F-47 Next-Generation Air...
The Stealth B-21 Raider Bomber Isn’t a Solution for Australia: In 2021, the Australian government made a radical decision that it believed would enhance...
The U.S. Air Force is racing to maintain air superiority as China fields more advanced fighters, with Washington pushing ahead with next-generation programs such...
“Americans Don’t Surrender.” – Quote by General George Patton, U.S. Army George S. Patton is one of the most renowned generals of the Second...
For many years, Elon Musk talked about Mars as if it were the sole reason that SpaceX came into existence. Though one project among...
China, Fuel, & The Indirect Approach: In his book Strategy, B.H. Liddell Hart wrote that “[t]he object in war is a better state of...
“Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly and then focus on improving your other innovations.” – Steve...
“Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me…Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful…that’s what matters to me…”...
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...
Donald Trump’s Way of War: An American Tradition At first, conventional minds worried that President Donald Trump’s campaign against Iran would draw us into...
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...
In an era of great power competition, U.S. forward-deployed forces face a growing threat from potential adversaries’ long-range missiles and sophisticated air defenses. These...
Today’s disappointing GDP numbers must be a source of concern in that they raise past ghosts of stagflation. In particular, they suggest that not...
The design of the ARL-44 heavy tank actually took shape under the German occupation of France, according to the excellent tank history website Tanks-Encyclopedia.com....
Flying a next-generation fighter plane is challenging, to say the least. The sensors are bringing in a ton of information every second. Weapons systems...
The much-discussed but much unknown Mach 6 SR-72 Son of Blackbird will be, by all accounts, an amazing airplane if it succeeds in development....
