Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
A new video clip shared on social media on Tuesday provided a rare view of the ruined city of Bakhmut, which has been besieged...
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Nazi Germany's Horten Ho 229 was the world's first flying-wing jet aircraft, and its triangular shape looks uncannily like a modern stealth plane. That...
The United States is committed to its sixth-generation warplane, the Boeing F-47, and recent photos over Area 51 show what many believe to be...
Canada has spent its way off Washington's list of NATO deadbeats, praised by name in Ankara for a two-year, $215 billion surge. The number...
For most of a century the US and Canada have shared the longest undefended border on Earth. For part of that century, both capitals...
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 US-Iran Memorandum of Understanding is being judged on whether it cools tensions in the Persian Gulf. Strategic-studies scholar Andrew Michta argues that's the...
The Type 10 main battle tank is a technological marvel: a lightweight, network-linked, actively suspended machine with an autoloaded 120mm gun, built by Mitsubishi...
This week a 41-year-old free agent is deciding which team gets him for an unprecedented 24th season, and a third of the league is...
Nearly every "best tank" ranking crowns the American M1 Abrams, and with good reason, but that buries a more interesting question: what is the...
The Iowa-class battleships carried nine 16-inch guns, outmatched by the 18.1-inch monsters on Japan's Yamato, the largest battleship guns ever made. Yet the American...
A single Ukrainian drone forced Russia's largest refinery, in Omsk, to halt operations, knocking out units that make roughly 75 percent of its output...
Iran is moving to charge ships for passing through the Strait of Hormuz — the waterway that carries a fifth of the world's oil...
A film celebrating ten years of China's Y-20 transport slipped in something no other country has shown on official camera: a sixth-generation fighter refueling...
A decade after it surfaced, China's H-20 has no flying prototype and no production line. The reasons are industrial, not financial: an intercontinental flying...
National security expert James Jay Carafano argues that although the fighting grinds on, the war in Ukraine is strategically over — and Putin has...
President Trump arrived at the NATO summit in Ankara and threatened to withdraw substantial U.S. forces from Europe unless Denmark softens its grip on...
Cheap drones can make a Chinese assault on Taiwan bloodier and a quick victory less likely — but they don't repeal geography or remove...
The expectation that cutting U.S. aid would force Ukraine to fold is dead: Russia cannot win this war without a mass mobilization or nuclear...
Last year North Korea's newest destroyer rolled over at its own launch, and the world assumed the program was finished for years. Instead Pyongyang...
The KN-23, North Korea's version the Russian Iskander missile, showed up to fight in the Ukraine war. And it isn't the same platform as...
On May 21, 2025, a brand-new North Korean destroyer rolled over and partially capsized at its own launch ceremony — with Kim Jong Un...
Fake Russian IDs, Orders Never to Be Captured, and 50% Casualties: Inside North Korea’s Secret War in Ukraine The Russian Army has sustained nearly...
A new video clip shared on social media on Tuesday provided a rare view of the ruined city of Bakhmut, which has been besieged...
Editor’s Note: This is another part of a multi-part series looking at the new B-21 Raider stealth bomber by renowned expert Philip Handleman. You...
A “new Biden family member” implicated in the probe, Oversight chairman said: Rep. James Comer reveals that his committee’s subpoena of records revealed that...
Fallen Russian Drones Offer Insight Into Russian Equipment Use – Images of crashed Russian drones shared on social media this week offers an interesting look...
During the SR-71 “Blackbird’s” more than 25-year-long service history – which ran from its first flight in 1964 through retirement in 1999 – not...
