Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
This past June, the Spanish government floated a plan to send its aging fleet of 40 German-made Leopard 2A4 tanks to Ukraine, but just this week had...
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One of many vivid Chinese aphorisms is “chóng dǎo fù zhé,” which describes a cart following in the same tracks as an overturned cart...
In Trump’s Truth Social post following his phone call with Putin last Monday, the U.S. President wrote the “tone and spirit of the conversation...
On May 20, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke about the U.S. decision to engage with the new Syrian government in Damascus. Rubio...
Canada is now formally in talks to join Donald Trump’s so-called “Golden Dome” missile defense initiative – a multi-hundred-billion-dollar pan-continental shield designed to intercept...
The strain in US-European relations under the second Trump administration stems primarily from a deepening ideological divide, not just policy disputes over trade or...
Since the ill-fated Oval Office meeting between Presidents Trump and Zelensky, the headlines have been dominated by pronouncements about the end of NATO, the...
Secretary Marco Rubio’s announcement following the US-Ukraine negotiations in Saudi Arabia that Ukraine has agreed to accept a 30-day ceasefire and to enter into...
The increasingly fraught endgame to the Russia-Ukraine war reflects a larger ongoing debate in the US policy community about who is ultimately responsible for...
The USS Pennsylvania (BB-38) World War I & II Dreadnought Battleship – The USS Pennsylvania was the lead ship of the Pennsylvania class of...
Key Points – Concerns about US reliability as a defense partner and Washington’s control over American-made military hardware are prompting both Canada and Portugal...
Key Points – The SR-72 Darkstar, an uncrewed successor to the SR-71 Blackbird, is engineered for Mach 5+ hypersonic speeds, fulfilling intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance...
F-16 In Ukraine: “Some of the Most Intense Combat Ever” – On May 16, at approximately 0330 Kyiv time, the Ukrainian Air Force (PSU)...
The global financial and technological order is changing rapidly, and the U.S. must be at the center of these changes. As China aggressively pushes...
It is in the DNA of Star Wars to borrow from other genres. Indeed, George Lucas built his science fiction universe around the visual...
Key Points – Canada’s re-evaluation of its 88-unit F-35 fighter deal, driven by political tensions with the US, faces significant practical hurdles if Ottawa...
Germany’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU)—collectively known as the Union—took power after securing the largest block...
Israeli leaders must be suffering whiplash as they watch the dizzying events of recent days across the Middle East, with President Donald Trump sidelining...
Tensions are escalating between US allies Turkey and Israel in Syria following Bashar al-Assad's ouster in December 2024 and the rise of HTS leader...
Throughout his presidential campaign last year, US President Donald Trump regularly insisted that he would stop the Ukraine War on ‘day one’ of his...
The leaders of France, the U.K., Germany, and Poland over the weekend joined Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to “demand” that Putin immediately agree to...
Summary and Key Points: -North Korea’s deployment of 15,000 troops to support Russia in Ukraine offers critical battlefield experience that could significantly enhance its...
Summary and Key Points: North Korea has faced catastrophic losses among its troops fighting alongside Russia in Ukraine, with nearly 50 percent casualties reported....
North Korea and the Change Question: More than two decades ago, a defense and foreign affairs writer could visit China and not be constantly...
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is meeting with important allies during his Indo-Pacific trip, with one notable exception: South Korea, at a time of...
This past June, the Spanish government floated a plan to send its aging fleet of 40 German-made Leopard 2A4 tanks to Ukraine, but just this week had...
The Taiwan Visit Aftermath: Is China Thinking Invasion? The visit of the U.S. Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, to the small island nation has...
North Korea has reportedly tested explosive devices and has recently begun digging new underground tunnels at its Punggye-ri nuclear test site. According to an...
A potentially deadly issue with the ejection seats used across its F-35 Joint Strike Fighter fleet was discovered a few months ago by the...
Though the 2024 election is still 26 and half months away – which can be both an eternity and just around the corner at...
