Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
Even before the start of the war, the Russian Navy had been in a steep decline for years, and it was in April that...
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Signing the largest Russia sanctions package to date and then floating a diesel arrangement looks contradictory only if one assumes the two acts are...
The Trump administration’s deal to allow Russian diesel into the United States blindsided Kyiv and Europe alike — halting peace talks, triggering threats to...
Secretary of State Marco Rubio calls Ukraine a “dangerous stalemate,” and the Kremlin agrees. Russia netted 104 square kilometers from January to late May,...
Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi has set June 2027 as the deadline for bringing the Popular Mobilization Forces under state authority. Five factions have reportedly...
Sabotage at Leipzig, Swindon, and Skarżysko-Kamienna. A curfew across the river from Narva. New garrisons at Petrozavodsk, Lupche-Savino, and Pechenga pointing at Finland's 830-mile...
The Witkoff-Kushner shuttle between Moscow and Kyiv ended, predictably, without a breakthrough — and Andrew Michta argues the failure reveals something deeper than bad...
German Foreign Minister Wadephul's fourth Kyiv visit — two days before Ukraine's Independence Day — capped an accelerating shift: Berlin is becoming Ukraine's principal...
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...
The Los Angeles-class is the most successful fast-attack submarine in US Navy history: 62 boats built between 1972 and 1996, and 50 years spent...
“There is no good in anything until it is finished.” The line is attributed to Genghis Khan, sometimes as “no value” instead of “no...
“A blind man can see it in a minute,” George Patton said of the II Corps troops he inherited after Kasserine Pass in 1943....
In May 1968 the nuclear submarine USS Scorpion radioed that she had found a Soviet task force near the Azores and was moving in...
Four ships crossed the Strait of Hormuz Thursday against a 10-day average of 16. Iran said it hit tanker Trend on Friday. Brent is...
Jobs dropped out of Reed College and stayed on as what he called a "drop-in," sitting in on classes that interested him. One was...
"Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has,...
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has unveiled Operation Economic Outcast: secondary sanctions across five sectors and more than sixty targets, with no relief attached. Iran's...
Iran is reinforcing its borders and nuclear sites, piling dirt mounds around Natanz and Pickaxe Mountain, and urging civilians to take free weapons training...
Nine months after Riyadh gutted Yemen’s Southern Transitional Council, the Houthis took the port of Mokha on the Bab el-Mandeb, then struck King Khalid...
The rial has hit 2.5 million to the dollar, inflation is projected near 69 percent, and Iranian oil moving through the Strait of Hormuz...
Twenty-five years on, 9/11's lessons are still contested, except the simplest: the US mistook quiet for peace. A RAND strategist argues it is doing...
President Trump says he gets along with Kim Jong Un and wants a new summit before the end of 2026, along with smaller US-South...
Trump is reportedly considering another meeting with Kim Jong Un. The last round produced Singapore, Hanoi, and the DMZ, and by 2020 the status...
American doctrine promises that any North Korean nuclear attack will end the Kim regime. The Iran war has just tested that assumption. The United...
Trump ordered Ulchi Freedom Shield cut from eleven days to five before Kim Jong-un had agreed to anything in return. Kim Yo-jong dismissed the...
Even before the start of the war, the Russian Navy had been in a steep decline for years, and it was in April that...
Donald Trump has been asking his lawyers questions about a possible prison stint, whether he’ll go to a “club fed” minimum-security facility or a...
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, political juggler that he is, isn’t (or shouldn’t) really be primarily concerned with how the impeachment inquiry against President Joe...
China’s carriers will continue to be a weak point in China’s overall military threat to Taiwan and its allies.
Last year, a total of nine Freedom-class LCSs were marked for disposal as part of the Department of Defense's (DoD's) Fiscal Year 2023 budget proposal.
