Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
China's rapid military build-up is more expansive than anything seen since World War II, which means it's on track with its 2027 goal 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...
The Essex-class layout the president prefers was built around a different aviation ecosystem entirely. Those decks handled slow piston-engine aircraft. Modern fighters have maximum...
USS John F. Kennedy, the second Ford-class carrier, was originally slated for delivery in September 2022. She is now anticipated in March 2027 -...
As the Iran War continues, with demand intensifying for US systems in both the Middle East and Ukraine, and with American arsenals running dry,...
Trump has big plans for the US Navy: Battleships that seem massively expensive and reworking aircraft carriers to look more like something from the...
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...
China's rapid military build-up is more expansive than anything seen since World War II, which means it's on track with its 2027 goal to...
The U.S. Air Force is enhancing its operational efficiency and agility through the expansion of hot-pit refueling, a method that significantly reduces ground time...
In early 2008 Ben Bernanke’s Federal Reserve downplayed at great cost the downside risks to the economy coming from the subprime loan crisis. Today,...
Rather than part company with reality, U.S. officials and opinion leaders should embrace it. Long-term Israeli-Palestinian peace requires, among other things, a destroyed Hamas,...
Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine and the overall ten-year war is quickly spiraling into an East vs. West dispute with various political blocs and...
