Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
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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...
Iran has stepped up efforts to disrupt shipping in the Strait of Hormuz, laying a fresh batch of naval mines in recent days, according...
Surface-fired hypersonic missiles, 600kw lasers, high-velocity rounds, and a 32 Megajoule Railgun are a few of the weapons systems expected to be built into...
Few American military figures remain as recognizable decades after their death as George S. Patton Jr. He was feared by his enemies and admired...
Summary and Key Points: The $13 billion USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) cannot safely operate Lockheed Martin F-35C Lightning II fighters because the aircraft...
Key Point: The Walt Disney Company has raised peak-day ticket prices at the Walt Disney World Resort’s Magic Kingdom theme park to approximately $219...
Is Florida Still An Inexpensive State To Live In?: The sunshine, the weather (no snow), and the proximity to both the Atlantic Ocean and...
“Water is $4.50 for a basic Desani. Smartwater is $6.25. Food is almost unaffordable, and people bring their own food now. Soon, we might...
My wife and I are political scientists, and what better way to study politics than living in Washington, DC? Plus, I am a foreign...
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...
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia – Defense and aerospace industrial firms from the Islamic Republic of Iran that had been scheduled and confirmed to participate in Defense...
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...
There was a time a few years ago, however brief, that some of us Asia-defense nerds had an unorthodox idea to tip the military...
The People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) has continued to maintain a presence in the neutral waters of the South China Sea, which Beijing doesn’t...
During the Cold War, despite having the world’s largest navy, the Soviet Union was still primarily a land power and as a result, the...
The concept of giant mechanical “walkers” has long been a science fiction staple – beginning with the massive three-legged fighting machines, known as “Tripods,”...
Back in the Winter 2010 edition of Orbis, the always smart James Kraska, at the time an investigator at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, presented his...
