Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
The rise of China’s navy (PLAN) has truly been remarkable by any benchmark anyone could reasonably set. Since the dawn of ironclad navies, the...
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Summary and Key Points: The Boeing F-47, centerpiece of the U.S. Air Force’s Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) program, marks a pivotal shift from...
Summary and Key Points: President Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced Boeing has won the Air Force’s Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD)...
F-47 Fighter Is Born: In a March 21st Oval Office announcement that came the same week he was briefed on the program, US President...
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 ...
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: China’s Chengdu J-20S fighter represents a major advancement in fifth-generation stealth aviation, featuring a twin-seat configuration for enhanced versatility. -Unlike...
Summary and Key Points: Gen. Cotton, Commander of U.S. Strategic Command, advocates for increasing B-21 Raider bomber production to 145 units, up from the...
Summary and Key Points: President Donald Trump has announced Boeing as the winner of the Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) contract, naming the future...
Summary and Key Points: The aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75) has faced multiple drone and missile attacks from Yemen’s Iranian-backed Houthi rebels....
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...
Donald Trump was elected in 2016 while using the popular vote and spent the majority of his first term with a negative approval rating....
True to his nature of always trying to demean or diminish his opposite number in any interaction, Russian President Vladimir Putin was roughly an...
Summary and Key Points: The latest release of JFK assassination documents has failed to uncover a “smoking gun” or new proof of conspiracy. -President...
Recently, voices in both South Korea and Poland have seriously suggested arming their countries with tactical nuclear weapons as a means of enhancing national...
In a move that defies strategic logic and undermines national security, Prime Minister Mark Carney has ordered a review of Canada’s commitment to purchase...
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...
South Korea’s political turmoil of martial law, impeachments, and vitriolic attacks among its political parties has entered its third month—and it’s likely that several...
The rise of China’s navy (PLAN) has truly been remarkable by any benchmark anyone could reasonably set. Since the dawn of ironclad navies, the...
The first firearm I ever purchased was a shotgun, a Mossberg 500 to be exact. And I think that’s how a lot of gun...
In the wake of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, I argued over at the Washington Examiner that Taiwan needs nuclear weapons to deter China....
The U.S. Air Force’s 6th-Generation stealth fighter being considered to eventually replace the F-22 and F-35 stealth fighters may have to confront a future...
The United Kingdom has already plunked down $347 million for the infrastructure to produce the Tempest, its planned 6th-generation warplane. And that’s not all....
