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Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security

During the Second World War, the U.S. Navy operated four of the most powerful warships ever built, the Iowa-class battleships. Despite their commanding size,...

Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security

As tensions in the Red Sea continue to escalate, the U.S. Navy’s controversial Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) program is back in the spotlight.  Recent...

Dr. Andrew A. Michta: Geostrategy

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...

Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security

To begin with, NATO is in better shape today than the alliance was for most of the Cold War. Europeans need to stop fretting...

Dr. Andrew A. Michta: Geostrategy

Dr. Andrew A. Michta: Geostrategy

As Donald J. Trump takes office as the country’s 47th President, American foreign and security policy are at an inflection point.   While analysts routinely...

Dr. Andrew A. Michta: Geostrategy

The United States is on the cusp of perhaps the most fundamental rethinking of its foreign policy since 1945. The inauguration of the second...

Dr. Andrew A. Michta: Geostrategy

As the second Trump administration prepares to take charge of US foreign and security policy, there is intense debate in Washington about what the...

Dr. Andrew A. Michta: Geostrategy

While NATO has largely maintained its unity against Moscow following Russia’s second invasion of Ukraine, the alliance’s political pronouncements of support have not been...

Smart Bombs

Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security

Japan’s Taigei-class of diesel-electric attack submarines under construction for the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) are categorized as “conventional”—as in being equipped with a...

Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security

The Great AUKUS Submarine Alliance: The United States, Australia, and the UK are surging forward with a multinational effort to build a new generation...

Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security

AUKUS Has Arrived, But What Does the Future Hold?: The UK’s Astute-class replacement program, named the Submersible Ship Nuclear Replacement (SSNR), the SSN-AUKUS project...

Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security

Article Summary: The Panzerkampfwagen VIII Maus, Hitler’s super-heavy tank, was the largest tank ever built. Designed by Ferdinand Porsche, the Maus boasted impenetrable armor...

Trillions

Trillions - 19FortyFive

While the Trump Administration has been running roughshod over Washington in its opening weeks, promising to cut or even eliminate—or “delete”—government agencies through Elon...

Trillions - 19FortyFive

President Donald Trump, for much of his time in politics, has tested the limits of what a president, or for that matter a candidate,...

Trillions - 19FortyFive

Ever since President Trump began threatening new tariffs, some have argued that the tariffs are a mere negotiating tactic, something to threaten other countries...

Trillions - 19FortyFive

In late December, Finland seized a Russian-linked vessel on suspicion of cutting undersea cables in the Baltic Sea. While this may represent a novel tactic...

The Embassy

The Embassy

In the days after Pearl Harbor, nearly every American agreed on the important stuff. This was an attack on all of us. The Axis...

The Embassy

Since January 26, US President Donald Trump has suggested multiple times a solution to the Israel-Hamas war: “just clean out” Gaza, moving the Palestinians...

The Embassy

Until her August 5, 2024 ouster, Sheikh Hasina, a two-time prime minister who had run Bangladesh for 20 of its 54-year history, was the...

The Embassy

This month is the third anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The war has bogged down into a stalemate. Russia can make incremental...

Hermit Kingdom

Hermit Kingdom

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...

Hermit Kingdom

The North Korean regime must be celebrating. After years of bad news on its foreign relations, the regime is finally getting what it presumably...

Hermit Kingdom

North Korea fired a shot across the stern of the outgoing Biden administration by launching a missile during Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s visit...

Hermit Kingdom

The recent Foreign Affairs article, “Why South Korea Should Go Nuclear” by Robert E. Kelly and Min-hyung Kim, argues that South Korea’s acquisition of...