Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
In terms of structure, the B-21 Raider appears to be very similar to its B-2 predecessor since both use a flying wing design.
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A B-2 flying from Missouri and a Tomahawk launched from a destroyer two hundred miles offshore can both hit a target that once required...
A 300-ship US Navy operates on a rotational cycle. One third is deployed on any given day, one third is training, and one third...
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.
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...
Built in 102 days after North American refused to license-build P-40s, the Mustang became the war's decisive fighter the day the Merlin went in....
The Montana-class exists only as numbers: 70,965 tons full load, twelve 16-inch guns, armor built to stop its own shells, five ships assigned to...
What if the F-22 Raptor stealth fighter could be turned into a bomber? That was the idea behind the FB-22. It never occurred, and...
The F-22 has notionally been shot down by F-16s in the past, as well as an EA-18G Growler during a training exercise, with photographic...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
In terms of structure, the B-21 Raider appears to be very similar to its B-2 predecessor since both use a flying wing design.
Washington and Beijing and racing to get next-generation airframes on the runway for their respective air forces. The PRC has dangled its incoming H-20...
While the J-20 is a capable aircraft in its own right, U.S. planners and military leadership currently appear unconcerned that it has the capabilities...
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has bandied the phrase “culture of corruption” a lot even before he kicked off formal impeachment proceedings against President Joe...
When he was elected in 2020, I firmly believed Joe Biden was a placeholder for a Kamala Harris presidency. Biden was considered old back...
