Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
Summary and Key Points: The U.S. defense industry’s overly cautious business culture is significantly hindering innovation and eroding competitiveness against China. -Lockheed Martin’s Brian...
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The Trump administration’s deal to allow Russian diesel into the United States blindsided Kyiv and Europe alike — halting peace talks, triggering threats to...
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...
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...
On May 6, 1956, off the Virginia Capes, the destroyer USS Eaton, radar dead for four days, turned hard at 27 knots toward a...
Project 885 or Yasen-class took from a mid-1970s drawing board to 2010 to deliver Severodvinsk, and Russia kept paying through the Soviet collapse to...
Late on November 2, 1985, as the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise recovered jets 100 miles west of San Diego and the bridge dealt with...
The Glock Safe Action System is three passive mechanical interlocks in the fire control group, and not one of them depends on the shooter...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Summary and Key Points: The U.S. defense industry’s overly cautious business culture is significantly hindering innovation and eroding competitiveness against China. -Lockheed Martin’s Brian...
Summary and Key Points: The Boeing X-32 was Boeing’s entry into the U.S. Department of Defense’s Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) competition, designed to replace...
Summary and Key Points: The USS Nimitz, scheduled for retirement in 2026, could instead have its service life extended another 5 to 10 years,...
I stood in the room when the Ottawa Treaty was signed. As a Doctoral Fellow working with Canada’s then-Department of Foreign Affairs and International...
Since the ill-fated Oval Office meeting between Presidents Trump and Zelensky, the headlines have been dominated by pronouncements about the end of NATO, the...
