Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
Assuming Ukraine launched this drone, it may have been less of an attempt to cause damage than to force Russia to reorient its air...
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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 US Navy has said for months that it will select a final prime contractor for the sixth-generation, carrier-capable F/A-XX by the end of...
In 1986 the Air Force planned to buy 750 F-22s. It built 187. Only 184 remain in the inventory today, and one currently flying...
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...
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...
The vote was 424 hands in a half-empty hall on the assembly's last day, and the definition's third clause — cleared the neighborhood —...
The most quoted commencement line ever is a quotation, credited by the speaker at the podium — the farewell message of the Whole Earth...
Pharnaces attacked uphill, chariots first, at entrenched Roman veterans on his father's lucky hill — so recklessly that Caesar first read it as a...
The five qualities he listed as missing — strategy, operational art, tactics, generalship, soldiering — were exactly what the previous hundred hours had proven...
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...
Analysts dismissed American control of the Strait of Hormuz as a near-impossible task. The US government now says it has been helping tankers move...
Drones reached Moscow on three of the last five nights. A ballistic missile would not extend Ukraine's reach so much as compress Russia's warning...
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,...
When it comes to severe economic pressure, Washington has massive options between everything and nothing. Something in the middle that hurts Iran a lot...
As President Trump downsizes the Ulchi Freedom Shield war games after South Korea declined to help with Iran, one uncomfortable fact goes almost completely...
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...
Assuming Ukraine launched this drone, it may have been less of an attempt to cause damage than to force Russia to reorient its air...
As Victor Davis Hanson argues in his book, The Case for Trump, the 45th President of the United States can be studied as a...
Add Republican Governor Glen Youngkin to the list of leaders crossing state lines to drum up support for conservative principles and inspire hope to...
If Russia is behind the attempted strikes it could theoretically give the Kremlin justification to expand the scope of the conflict or finally deploy...
As previously reported, Russian forces have deployed enough landmines and unexploded ordnance to cover upwards of a third of Ukrainian territory.
