Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
Key Point: The U.S. Air Force’s Next-Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) fighter program, aimed at ensuring air superiority against advanced threats, faces delays due to...
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When it comes to severe economic pressure, Washington has massive options between everything and nothing. Something in the middle that hurts Iran a lot...
US President Donald J. Trump is desperately looking for a tool to beat Iran into submission. Sanctions are probably not it.
Even during genuine unipolar periods, pursuing excessively ambitious goals placed severe strain on America’s military, economic, and political systems. Attempting to do so now...
HMC Ships Moncton and Nanaimo, Canada's last two Kingston-class coastal vessels, are scheduled to be paid off in 2028. The Continental Defence Corvette intended...
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...
The second Trump administration is reviewing America's military footprint in Europe, and the worst-case outcome is a full withdrawal. Andrew Michta argues that would...
When we look at USS Nimitz’s vital stats, we see that she truly is a “super carrier,” worthy of being named for a super...
Only five battles in history have seen aircraft carriers from opposing navies face each other: Coral Sea, Midway, the Eastern Solomons, Santa Cruz and...
The president ordered the US Navy to replace the electromagnetic catapults on USS Doris Miller with steam, giving the Pentagon 60 days to produce...
The Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS Benfold suffered an electrical failure lasting 96 hours in the South China Sea. This was not a momentary trip...
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,...
Washington redirected 55 commercial vessels away from Iranian ports as of Sunday, up from 35 a week earlier, while the Kpler intelligence firm counted...
Supply boats bring food and water. Wages arrive late or not at all. A union leader likens it to imprisonment, and one Indian sailor...
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,...
In April 1997, President Roman Herzog told Germany it needed a Ruck — a jolt — to break out of national lethargy and undertake...
Dr. Michael Rubin argues that Israel's targeted killing campaign against Palestinian militants a quarter of a century ago ultimately produced two decades of relative...
Since Khamenei took over in March, Iran's Supreme National Security Council has had three secretaries. Ali Larijani was killed in an airstrike a few...
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.
North Korea has roughly 60 nuclear weapons and Kim Jong-un keeps demanding an exponential increase. Bruce Bennett works the problem backward, from Kim's objectives...
Xi's first Pyongyang visit in seven years, a ratified Russia pact, and a declaration that the arsenal is permanent: Andrew Latham on why the...
Key Point: The U.S. Air Force’s Next-Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) fighter program, aimed at ensuring air superiority against advanced threats, faces delays due to...
World War III in 2025? The year 2024 is promising to leave a dangerous legacy for its successor. Not in decades has the world...
MEMORANDUM TO: Elon and Vivek, FROM: Mackenzie Eaglen, AEI DATE: ASAP SUBJECT: Defense DOGE-ing Scouring the federal budget for efficiencies and smart rightsizing must...
5 Key Points You Need to Know: China’s J-20 Mighty Dragon stealth fighter is proliferating across airbases, with nearly 200 in service. While not...
Key Points: The Russian Air Force, while criticized early in the Ukraine War for failing to secure air superiority, has demonstrated resilience and adaptability....
