Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
China wants to make sure it can kill an aircraft carrier: This week, it was announced that the U.S. Air Force and Lockheed Martin had successfully...
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At best, trading F-16s and F-16 upgrades to Turkey in exchange for Erdogan lifting his veto on Sweden would be a pyrrhic victory.
Congress is again on the cusp of impairing the United States’ drive for nuclear deterrence. The Block Nuclear Launch by Autonomous AI Act is...
In today’s unstable global environment, the importance of multi-role, data-integrated weapons systems such as the P-8A Poseidon, has only increased.
Thirty years ago, Recep Tayyip Erdogan explained his goals: “Democracy is not our final goal,” he declared, “but rather a means to restore the civilization...
That it’s springtime in the Black Sea is not enough reason to go on the march. Military reality—not the passing of the seasons—has to...
Robert Work is the Rick Grimes of U.S. Marine Corps force design, forever blazing away at faulty ideas.
In The Tragic Mind: Fear, Fate, and the Burden of Power, just out from Yale, Kaplan brings a bleak outlook drawn from Greek tragedy...
So Carl von Clausewitz, when properly understood, was right about how wars do or do not end. Even after a resounding triumph, it behooves...
The B-52 was the first U.S. long-range, swept-wing heavy bomber. It first took flight back in April 1952 and entered service in February 1955
In a video shared on social media on Friday by Ukraine Weapons Tracker (@UAWeapons), a Russian T-62MV tank proved ill-suited for the modern battlefield...
Last week, the Ukrainian military started to train on the M1A1 Abrams tank that the United States will be sending to Kyiv in the...
Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine has highlighted the significant role main battle tanks (MBTs) can play in modern warfare. Moscow has had to turn...
Now with any future budget stimulus off the table, the Fed needs to reassess its monetary policy stance - and soon.
A state-sponsored Chinese hacking group called Volt Typhoon penetrated critical U.S. computer networks throughout the continental U.S. and Guam. The group was reportedly able...
“No corner of the global economy will be spared,” was what Mark Zandi, the chief economist at Moody’s Analytics told AP News in a...
The USA can survive just fine with a three year pause on loan repayments. Repayments should be paused indefinitely, or forgiven outright.
After an offensive operation that cost more than 100,000 men, Russia once more ceded Ukraine the strategic initiative.
Zelenskyy’s office released a video showing Lindsey Graham describing U.S. aid to Ukraine as the “best money we’ve ever spent.”
The war in Ukraine is the first large-scale conventional nation-state war since the invasion of Iraq 20 years ago. As such, it highlights how warfare has...
Aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford - the largest warship on Earth - is expected to take part in drills with the Norwegian armed...
Editor’s Note: As with all things COVID-19, we respect our author’s opinions and ideas on this issue – all of their ideas. With that...
China’s dramatic shift from draconian restrictions to relaxed COVID-19 rules is likely to cause more economic disruptions than benefits. The poorly performing economy will...
This was the year the word “tripledemic” entered the lexicon. That’s the term for the three different types of illnesses, COVID-19, flu, and RSV,...
Perhaps as many as 90% of China’s 1.41 billion people will come down with COVID-19, said Feng Zijian, former deputy chief of China’s Center...
In a Fox News interview Thursday, Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA) said that “We aren’t interested in whether the accusations against Vice President Biden are...
Donald Trump’s attacks on critics and political opponents often don’t make sense. The latest bromide against Gov. Ron DeSantis’ leadership in Florida is a...
President Joe Biden is clearly not a 'young' 80-years old. And it seems with each passing day, father time is catching up with him.
Let’s consider the question that is asked of all presidential administrations. What were the biggest mistakes of the Barack Obama presidency?
The North Korean threat is real. Pyongyang has proven in recent years that the DPRK intends to not only expand but modernize both its...
North Korea’s missile launches are in the headlines again, and a seventh nuclear test might be on the horizon. For most experts and pundits,...
Despite Biden’s best efforts with South Korea, the summit declaration merely puts a band-aid on a festering wound in the bilateral alliance.
In recent days it has been reported in the Chosun Ilbo (one of South Korea’s most widely read daily newspapers) that if North Korea...
China wants to make sure it can kill an aircraft carrier: This week, it was announced that the U.S. Air Force and Lockheed Martin had successfully...
Russia’s only aircraft carrier has a troubled service history. Named for Adm. Nikolai Kuznetsov, the head of the Soviet Navy during the Second World War,...
The T-90M Tank, Explained – With roots in the Cold War, the T-90 tank debuted in 1992, just after the Soviet Union’s collapse. The tank...
The United States is one step closer to catching up to Russia and China in hypersonic weapon development. The U.S. Air Force successfully tested...
President Joe Biden stepped into the familiar role of consoler-in-chief as the nation mourned the victims of a racist massacre in Buffalo, N.Y. But...
