Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
Synopsis: Russia’s post-Soviet arms exports to China were a pragmatic bargain: Moscow needed hard currency and industrial survival, while Beijing needed a rapid modernization...
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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...
US intelligence indicates Moscow now reads the Iran war as having depleted the United States, and sees that as an opening in Europe. CSIS...
Cooper claimed the routes; Trump claimed the strait; Tehran claimed only it knows where the mines are. Behind Friday's announcement: the four-and-a-half-month clearance, the...
In 2010, three American guided-missile submarines surfaced at almost the same moment in three separate places: USS Ohio at Subic Bay in the Philippines,...
On October 2, 2021, one of the Navy's three most advanced attack submarines struck an uncharted underwater mountain while running submerged. The impact wrecked...
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.
Synopsis: Russia’s post-Soviet arms exports to China were a pragmatic bargain: Moscow needed hard currency and industrial survival, while Beijing needed a rapid modernization...
Synopsis: Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz believed leadership meant listening down the chain: “Some of the best advice…comes from junior officers and enlisted men.”...
Synopsis: Greece is reshaping its fighter mix around F-35A stealth jets, upgraded F-16 Block 70/72 “Viper” aircraft, and Rafale F3R fighters from Dassault Aviation,...
Synopsis: New flight-test footage suggests upgraded J-20A stealth fighters are nearing operational fielding, with visual cues pointing to WS-15 engines and expanded avionics. -The...
Summary and Key Points: The battleship-to-carrier comparison is emotionally satisfying but strategically wrong. Battleships became obsolete because their core mission—surface gunnery and line-of-sight combat—was...
