Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
The American public's war-weariness and the urgency of Ukrainian progress against Russia are pressing issues, reflecting a historical reluctance to engage in foreign conflicts,...
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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...
Much of the H-20's exact capability remains secret, fueling anxiety and speculation about its potential to surpass or match current U.S. stealth bombers.
Few US Navy warships matched the technological ambitions of the early Cold War era like the USS Long Beach. She combined nuclear endurance and...
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 -...
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...
The American public's war-weariness and the urgency of Ukrainian progress against Russia are pressing issues, reflecting a historical reluctance to engage in foreign conflicts,...
The U.S. should not build a port off Gaza’s shore, but rather it should redirect efforts to helping Israel and her other allies secure...
Building new defensive lines, sabotaging Russian supply lines in the real through special forces, and targeting critical infrastructure such as oil, aerial command planes,...
In the aftermath of Alsalem’s remarks, more UN silence will feed further distrust of the global body in Jerusalem – and that will only...
Rather than roll out the red carpet for Fidan or bolster his ambitions to succeed Erdogan, another tack would better defend U.S. interests, regional...
