Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
As Israeli ground forces expand operations in Gaza, Iran’s proxies are steadily ramping up their military involvement. At the heart of their strategy —...
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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...
One RIM-7 Sea Sparrow from aircraft carrier USS Saratoga struck the Turkish destroyer's bridge area, killing five sailors including her commanding officer, Captain Kudret...
Avro Canada VZ-9 is a real-life flying saucer you can see right now at the National Museum of the US Air Force in Dayton,...
The F-35 review Mark Carney launched after a tariff row was supposed to finish last autumn and is still running. Meanwhile the budget has...
The M1A2 SEPv3 Abrams is currently the most advanced iteration of the Abrams family in operational service. Introduced around 2019, the SEPv3 retains most...
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...
As Israeli ground forces expand operations in Gaza, Iran’s proxies are steadily ramping up their military involvement. At the heart of their strategy —...
A Republican senator wants his party to rally around Donald Trump. The world has descended into chaos under Joe Biden’s leadership.
As one recent University of Chicago podcast reported, over 40 percent of Americans believe a civil war is likely in the next decade.
Perhaps Israel’s most recognizable defense system is the Iron Dome. Considered one of the most formidable air defense apparatuses in use, the Dome plays...
The first case involving former President Donald Trump reached the Supreme Court – but it isn't one actually involving his business dealings, his alleged...
