Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
Key Points: In early May 2025, Ukrainian forces achieved a historic first in naval warfare, reportedly using Magura-7 sea drones armed with US-made AIM-9...
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio calls Ukraine a “dangerous stalemate,” and the Kremlin agrees. Russia netted 104 square kilometers from January to late May,...
Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi has set June 2027 as the deadline for bringing the Popular Mobilization Forces under state authority. Five factions have reportedly...
Iran is reinforcing its borders and nuclear sites, piling dirt mounds around Natanz and Pickaxe Mountain, and urging civilians to take free weapons training...
Nine months after Riyadh gutted Yemen’s Southern Transitional Council, the Houthis took the port of Mokha on the Bab el-Mandeb, then struck King Khalid...
Sabotage at Leipzig, Swindon, and Skarżysko-Kamienna. A curfew across the river from Narva. New garrisons at Petrozavodsk, Lupche-Savino, and Pechenga pointing at Finland's 830-mile...
The Witkoff-Kushner shuttle between Moscow and Kyiv ended, predictably, without a breakthrough — and Andrew Michta argues the failure reveals something deeper than bad...
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...
Nobody walked off the street into an SR-71 cockpit. Candidates were already seasoned jet pilots, and the transition to qualified Blackbird pilot or reconnaissance...
Twenty-four Essex-class aircraft carriers were completed, the most numerous capital-ship class of the 20th century, and not one was lost to enemy action, though...
The SR-71 Blackbird cruised above Mach 3 and 80,000 feet, flew over Vietnam, North Korea and the Middle East, and never lost an aircraft...
Hyundai Rotem’s K3, the planned successor to the K2 Black Panther, stacks ambitions: a 130mm smoothbore with an autoloader, a 30mm cannon for drones,...
Four ships crossed the Strait of Hormuz Thursday against a 10-day average of 16. Iran said it hit tanker Trend on Friday. Brent is...
Jobs dropped out of Reed College and stayed on as what he called a "drop-in," sitting in on classes that interested him. One was...
"Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has,...
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...
The rial has hit 2.5 million to the dollar, inflation is projected near 69 percent, and Iranian oil moving through the Strait of Hormuz...
Twenty-five years on, 9/11's lessons are still contested, except the simplest: the US mistook quiet for peace. A RAND strategist argues it is doing...
The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, Foreign Policy, and the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies have all warned of an escalating Russian gray...
Surely there is reluctance among a part of the Russian population – especially those living in major cities – to see their sons dragged...
President Trump says he gets along with Kim Jong Un and wants a new summit before the end of 2026, along with smaller US-South...
Trump is reportedly considering another meeting with Kim Jong Un. The last round produced Singapore, Hanoi, and the DMZ, and by 2020 the status...
American doctrine promises that any North Korean nuclear attack will end the Kim regime. The Iran war has just tested that assumption. The United...
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...
Key Points: In early May 2025, Ukrainian forces achieved a historic first in naval warfare, reportedly using Magura-7 sea drones armed with US-made AIM-9...
Key Points: Vladimir Putin’s rejection of President Trump’s exceptionally favorable peace proposals for Ukraine—which included recognizing Russian territorial gains and rolling back sanctions—indicates his...
Many people may not know it, but the United States came close to unleashing a nuclear attack on North Korea and China during the...
Key Points: While Russia’s surface navy faces significant setbacks, particularly in the Black Sea, its submarine force remains a potent and advanced threat, led...
Key Points and Summary: China’s J-20 Mighty Dragon stealth fighter likely incorporates stolen design elements from multiple aircraft rather than being wholly original. -Its...
