Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
Since the onset of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine nearly sixteen months ago, the Kremlin’s well-oiled propaganda machine has divulged misinformation regularly. Last week, Russian-state...
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Conventional wisdom says Americans vote on domestic concerns and ignore the world abroad. Robert Kelly argues the 2026 midterms are breaking that rule: an...
Germany is studying whether to join GCAP, the sixth-generation fighter Britain, Japan and Italy launched in December 2022 for service by 2035, after its...
The Soviet Victor III attack submarine, introduced in 1979, was the first Soviet boat quiet enough to hide in the ocean’s background noise. As...
The Pentagon’s China Military Power Report says the People’s Liberation Army Navy plans to operate nine aircraft carriers by 2035. China has three today,...
Putin’s proposal for a U.S.-China-Russia trilateral in China — with Ukraine and Europe excluded — has revived Beltway enthusiasm for a “Kissinger-in-reverse” bid to...
The Trump administration’s deal to allow Russian diesel into the United States blindsided Kyiv and Europe alike — halting peace talks, triggering threats to...
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...
In 1963, 18 years after fighting each other, the US and Germany agreed to build one main battle tank for NATO. Then they fought...
The Navy signed a $5.1 billion contract in September to put USS Harry S. Truman through RCOH, the refueling and complex overhaul due every...
The Russians have de facto decommissioned two of their largest surface warships: the aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov and the nuclear battlecruiser Pyotr Velikiy. Kuznetsov,...
Japan calls its armed forces a Self-Defense Force, and the Sōryū-class is what it sends under the First Island Chain. Twelve boats were built...
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...
Dr. Robert Kelly, a professor of international relations at Pusan National University, argues the separation of powers in American foreign policy has nearly collapsed,...
Both sides would use a Ukraine war pause to rearm, and a longer pause may mean a bloodier spring. Michael Rubin argues Kyiv should...
For four and a half years the request was essentially a check, and the argument was that a properly supplied David could match Goliath....
Let Trump be Trump—which he will be anyway. Even if his peace efforts fail (which is entirely possible), American interests will be protected, and...
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...
Since the onset of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine nearly sixteen months ago, the Kremlin’s well-oiled propaganda machine has divulged misinformation regularly. Last week, Russian-state...
Joe Biden could face defeat, should Americans come to believe that former President Donald Trump is being prosecuted for purely political reasons. Americans do...
Meet the Virginia-Class: For years, the preeminent Columbia-class submarine program took center stage when it came to the U.S. Navy’s priorities. Now, the Virginia-class...
The New M1A2 SEPv4 Abrams will soon become the new main battle tank of the U.S. military. Widely considered one of the best-armored vehicles across...
Lauren Boebert has introduced her own article of impeachment, accusing Biden of failing his "constitutional duty to secure our southern border.”
