Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
Lawmakers on Capitol Hill continue to express concerns over the cost of America’s cutting-edge fifth-generation combat aircraft, citing that it will be too expensive...
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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...
Since entering service in 1999, the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet has accumulated twelve million flight hours. It made its combat debut in 2002 over Iraq,...
The original concept considered arming the navalized F-22 Raptor or Sea Raptor with the AIM-152 long-range air-to-air missile, HARM anti-radiation missiles and Harpoon anti-ship...
The army that built forty kilometers of walls in a month had been beaten at Gergovia weeks before. It dug anyway — and stood...
The room laughed at US Army General George Patton, and the laughter was reasonable — no army that size had ever reversed itself at...
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,...
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...
Georgia Gilholy reports on Trump's map post declaring Hormuz 'New U.S. Territory,' a vessel struck off Oman hours earlier per UK Maritime Trade Operations,...
When it comes to severe economic pressure, Washington has massive options between everything and nothing. Something in the middle that hurts Iran a lot...
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.
Lawmakers on Capitol Hill continue to express concerns over the cost of America’s cutting-edge fifth-generation combat aircraft, citing that it will be too expensive...
Last year, the United States Coast Guard (USCG), which currently operates under the Department of Homeland Security, went a different direction from the other...
In Greek mythology, Prometheus was the Titan god of fire, known for his intelligence and even for being a champion of mankind. According to...
When Belarus’ authoritarian strongman, Aleksandr Lukashenko, personally dispatched a fully armed MiG-29 fighter jet to intercept Ryanair Flight FR4978 in order to arrest a...
“Divest to invest” is a slogan the Joint Chiefs use when touting their approach to managing declining defense budgets that don’t keep up with...
