Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
Last month, Washington pledged to send Ukraine National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile Systems (NASAMS) to help counter Russia’s constant barrage of missile fire that has...
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Putin’s proposal for a U.S.-China-Russia trilateral in China — with Ukraine and Europe excluded — has revived Beltway enthusiasm for a “Kissinger-in-reverse” bid to...
American-flagged vessels account for less than 0.3 percent of the shipping carrying U.S. trade, and the country graduates several hundred naval architects a year...
Both sides would use a Ukraine war pause to rearm, and a longer pause may mean a bloodier spring. Michael Rubin argues Kyiv should...
Tirpitz's "risk theory" was not a plan to defeat Britain but to make defeating Germany so costly that Britain would seek accommodation. It required...
The Trump administration’s deal to allow Russian diesel into the United States blindsided Kyiv and Europe alike — halting peace talks, triggering threats to...
Sabotage at Leipzig, Swindon, and Skarżysko-Kamienna. A curfew across the river from Narva. New garrisons at Petrozavodsk, Lupche-Savino, and Pechenga pointing at Finland's 830-mile...
The Witkoff-Kushner shuttle between Moscow and Kyiv ended, predictably, without a breakthrough — and Andrew Michta argues the failure reveals something deeper than bad...
German Foreign Minister Wadephul's fourth Kyiv visit — two days before Ukraine's Independence Day — capped an accelerating shift: Berlin is becoming Ukraine's principal...
Summary and Key Points: “Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do, and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.”...
Summary and Key Points: The Air Force told Congress on October 16 that it needs at least 1,509 combat-ready fighters by 2035 to hold...
Summary and Key Points: Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird US Air Force pilot Dave Peters took off from Kadena at 10 AM on a Saturday, refueled...
Summary and Key Points: The US Army began live-fire testing of the M1E3 Abrams at Fort Hood on October 4, with tests running through...
Four ships crossed the Strait of Hormuz Thursday against a 10-day average of 16. Iran said it hit tanker Trend on Friday. Brent is...
Jobs dropped out of Reed College and stayed on as what he called a "drop-in," sitting in on classes that interested him. One was...
"Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has,...
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has unveiled Operation Economic Outcast: secondary sanctions across five sectors and more than sixty targets, with no relief attached. Iran's...
For four and a half years the request was essentially a check, and the argument was that a properly supplied David could match Goliath....
Let Trump be Trump—which he will be anyway. Even if his peace efforts fail (which is entirely possible), American interests will be protected, and...
Dr. Robert Kelly argues that Donald Trump’s second term is alienating allies as no president has since 1945: refusing Saudi Arabia’s request to strike...
Signing the largest Russia sanctions package to date and then floating a diesel arrangement looks contradictory only if one assumes the two acts are...
President Trump says he gets along with Kim Jong Un and wants a new summit before the end of 2026, along with smaller US-South...
Trump is reportedly considering another meeting with Kim Jong Un. The last round produced Singapore, Hanoi, and the DMZ, and by 2020 the status...
American doctrine promises that any North Korean nuclear attack will end the Kim regime. The Iran war has just tested that assumption. The United...
Trump ordered Ulchi Freedom Shield cut from eleven days to five before Kim Jong-un had agreed to anything in return. Kim Yo-jong dismissed the...
Last month, Washington pledged to send Ukraine National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile Systems (NASAMS) to help counter Russia’s constant barrage of missile fire that has...
It looks like Marco Rubio is posturing for a 2024 presidential run. Like seemingly all presidential hopefuls, Rubio is releasing a new book next...
The big day aerospace experts and enthusiasts have been looking forward to for months arrives December 2. That’s when the first public unveiling of...
There are an estimated 10 to 15,000 Russian troops in Belarus, but that doesn’t mean an attack from the northern sector toward Kyiv is...
Why the U.S. Economy Looks Set for a Recession in 2023: In one of his plays, Oscar Wilde wrote that to lose one parent...
