Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
Russia’s military is supposed to be one the best on Earth. But it can’t beat Ukraine? In a released statement on the Ukrainian Parliament’s official Telegram...
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Key Points and Summary – Japan is cautiously opening a debate that would have been unthinkable a decade ago: swapping ultra-quiet diesel boats for...
Key Points and Summary – Canada’s plan to replace its aging CF-18 fleet turned into a political and industrial drama that ultimately doomed Boeing’s...
Key Points and Summary – The Virginia-class submarine program is supposed to be the backbone of the U.S. undersea fleet, but it is badly...
Key Points and Summary – The F-22 Raptor was built to be America’s ultimate air superiority fighter, yet nearly two decades after entering service...
Key Points and Summary – The recent NATO summit in The Hague, where European allies agreed to a new 5% of GDP defense spending...
The Trump administration made the Russia-Ukraine ceasefire its priority foreign policy initiative shortly after the inauguration. Setting aside Donald Trump’s campaign rhetoric that he...
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...
Key Points and Summary – The MBT-70 was a bold U.S.–West German bid to build a joint “super tank” to blunt Soviet armor in...
Key Points and Summary – The B-21 Raider is designed to do what legacy bombers can’t: slip through China’s dense A2/AD network and hit...
Key Points and Summary – China’s J-20S is the world’s first two-seat stealth fighter, and it signals a major doctrinal shift. -By adding a...
Key Points and Summary – The SR-72 “Son of Blackbird” was conceived as a Mach 6, hypersonic recon-and-strike platform able to cross continents in...
Key Points and Summary – After losing the Air Force’s Next Generation Air Dominance contest to Boeing’s F-47, Lockheed Martin is pushing an aggressive...
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...
Article Summary: Washington’s proposed 28-point Russia-Ukraine deal—trading Ukrainian territory, NATO aspirations, and war-crimes accountability for a ceasefire and cash—would echo Munich by rewarding aggression,...
Key Points and Summary – Dr. Arkady Moshes argues that Russia’s war in Ukraine has exposed a glaring reality: Moscow has neither a viable...
In October 2024, Iran threatened to abandon the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and pursue a nuclear weapon if attacked by Israel. If history and...
In the wake of Israel’s first rounds of its preemptive military strike on Iran’s nuclear program, aptly named “Operation Rising Lion,” commentators rushed 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...
Russia’s military is supposed to be one the best on Earth. But it can’t beat Ukraine? In a released statement on the Ukrainian Parliament’s official Telegram...
On day four of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Russian forces are really struggling to achieve any meaningful progress as Ukrainian resistance and...
Can Russia Really Win in Ukraine? The international community’s initial stiff response to the unprovoked Russian invasion of Ukraine is changing as more countries...
Over the past thirty years, the West has fallen prey over and over again to mirror-imaging its adversaries, and as a result, it continues...
Perhaps because Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has not gone nearly as quickly or decisively as he expected, Vladimir Putin is now trying to raise...
