Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
The May 16, 2025, India-Pakistan ceasefire in Kashmir is viewed as another temporary pause, not a step towards genuine peace, because the conflict stems...
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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...
There is nothing radical about the SIG P226. Short recoil, locked breech, aluminum alloy frame, stamped steel slide, double-action first shot and a decocking...
The mine cost about $1,500. The repair bill exceeded $90 million. On April 14, 1988, the guided-missile frigate USS Samuel B. Roberts - commissioned...
She was laid down at Yokosuka in May 1940 as the third Yamato-class battleship, meant to carry 18.1-inch guns into a decisive surface battle...
I am a diehard SIG Sauer fan and a SIG P365-XL is what I carry. That has not changed. But after watching 7th Special...
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,...
Speaking in Baghdad on August 20, Iran's parliament speaker warned that military power counts for nothing if the people are hungry. Four days later...
American forces struck Iranian positions preparing to fire mine-carrying missiles into the Strait of Hormuz. Tehran answered with a handful of missiles that reportedly...
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...
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.
The May 16, 2025, India-Pakistan ceasefire in Kashmir is viewed as another temporary pause, not a step towards genuine peace, because the conflict stems...
For Europe’s Right, Ukraine Has Become the Defining Test: The war in Ukraine exposed the faultlines that divide Europe’s right-wing populist parties, primarily over...
The SR-71 Blackbird is one of the most iconic aircraft of the Cold War. Despite being built in the 1960s, the plane still holds...
The U.S. Navy’s Littoral Combat Ship is the butt of many jokes the likes of which will not be printed here due to the...
Key Points – The M1 Abrams tank, a dominant force for over four decades, faces obsolescence by 2040 according to an Army Science Board...
