Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
The most dangerous drone planned for the Russian military in the coming years is the Poseidon, which is slated to come into service in...
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Physical construction began on the United States Navy USS Constellation in the middle of 2022. After over two and a half years, the ship...
Europe Has a Big Defense Call to Make: The Trump administration’s apparent desire to cut Ukraine loose and terminate NATO’s proxy war against Russia...
The news last week that Poland and the three Baltic nations are withdrawing from the Ottawa Convention banning member nations from using anti-personnel landmines...
Could the Boeing F-47 Fighter Soon Be For Sale? When the U.S. developed the F-22 Raptor in the 1990s, it made a clear decision: no...
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 Munich Security Conference and the days that followed, including the senior level US-Russia meeting in Saudi Arabia, have witnessed massive turbulence in transatlantic...
Since the COVID pandemic, Europe has fallen on hard economic times, and the continent’s absolute and relative economic decline has deepened over the past...
Summary and Key Points: The U.S. Navy’s future SSN(X) submarine aims to combine the speed and payload of the Seawolf-class, advanced stealth and sensors...
Summary and Key Points: China’s sixth-generation fighter, the Chengdu J-36, is reportedly advancing smoothly, recently completing its second test flight. Images show the J-36...
Air-Independent Propulsion or AIP: Affordable, Capable, and Difficult to Detect Submarines Although not as capable as nuclear-powered submarines, AIP technology excels in littoral environments...
Summary and Key Points: The iconic B-52 bomber, known for carpet bombing in Vietnam, has undergone massive upgrades for modern warfare. -Lessons learned from...
The big idea behind Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) appears to be that too many people work for the federal government. Therefore,...
Summary and Key Points: President Donald Trump has set April 2 as “Liberation Day,” planning to impose significant new tariffs on most U.S. trading...
Elon Musk’s turn towards Trumpism, as well as his work for DOGE, has had another effect: It’s completely changed what it means to be...
They used to say that Social Security was the “third rail of politics.” President George W. Bush used that term himself, back when he...
In 2006, Muhammad Yunus and his Grameen Bank won the Nobel Peace Prize. The Norwegian Nobel Committee said it awarded them the prize “for...
Start Preparing Turkey’s Truth and Reconciliation Committee: President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu should end any pretense in the State...
Mongolia Has a Greater Claim Over Much of China than China has Over Taiwan: President Xi Jinping continues to voice the Chinese Communist Party’s...
On March 15, the US began a campaign of airstrikes against the Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen. US Central Command said it had “initiated a ...
U.S. President Donald Trump lost no time in letting his European critics know that the cheap defense ride at American expense was over. He...
Will an infusion of fresh troops from North Korea significantly impact the war in Ukraine? Not a lot. However, the deployment of more North...
It looks like North Korea is building a nuclear-powered submarine. Two days ago, North Korean state media announced the project, showing Supreme Leader Kim...
To the horror of many South Koreans, Donald Trump has returned to the White House. No one, including perhaps President Trump, knows what he...
The most dangerous drone planned for the Russian military in the coming years is the Poseidon, which is slated to come into service in...
Last week, a female soldier became the first woman in the Army to graduate from the U.S. Army Sniper Course and become a sniper....
If there is another Gaza ground conflict, can Israel’s Merkava (Chariot) Mark IV tanks be effective again? The latest versions of the Merkava Mark...
On Wall Street, the more sophisticated traders are in the habit of asking investment analysts with strongly held views what factors might prove them...
The Pentagon has decided to spend more than $10 billion to update and maintain the F-22 Raptor, the world’s best air dominance fighter jet. The Department...
