Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
Over the weekend, the U.S. killed Ayman al-Zawahiri, the leader of Al Qaeda and one of the world’s most wanted terrorists, in a drone...
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Almost all of the names are in their late forties to mid-fifties, and that is the point. Putin's own generation — men like FSB...
Dr. James Holmes, the last gunnery officer to fire a battleship's guns in anger, recalls USS Wisconsin's 1988 return from mothballs: parts scavenged from...
Iran and Russia have both demonstrated that a mediocre power can absorb enormous punishment without surrendering, and that doing so buys almost nothing strategically....
Reagan's AWACS package looked inflated in 1981 and nobody explained why. Nine years later, when Iraq invaded Kuwait, American forces flew into Saudi air...
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...
The Eastern Flank Deterrence Initiative emerged from US Army Europe and Africa and NATO's Allied Land Command as a concept for restoring deterrence by...
For all the talk of spending targets, the Ankara NATO summit's real work happened elsewhere. Europe is being handed responsibility for NATO's conventional defense...
Boeing and Israel rebuilt the F-4 Phantom for more thrust and range. $12 million a jet. Neither Super Phantom entered production.
An engine hits what maintainers call "high time" at 3,000 hours, and each one has six modules, so a whole engine is rarely what...
Chester Nimitz’s rule was “when you’re in command, command.” After Pearl Harbor he used aircraft carriers at Coral Sea and Midway to break the...
The original estimate assumed the new ICBM would drop into existing Minuteman infrastructure. It can't. Sentinel needs different dimensions, different electrical architecture, different environmental...
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...
Volodymyr Zelenskiy is set to meet with US President Donald Trump and discuss current and possible new initiatives aimed at ending the Russia-Ukraine war.
The Duma is a rubber-stamp parliament and United Russia is not going to lose it. The election still matters to Putin, for two reasons...
On the morning of September 14, a Russian drone exploded beside a train carrying delegates home from the Yalta European Strategy summit, about 1.2...
Russia's negotiating position has not shifted across eight visits to Moscow by Steve Witkoff, and Putin's precondition remains the whole of Donetsk oblast —...
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...
As President Trump downsizes the Ulchi Freedom Shield war games after South Korea declined to help with Iran, one uncomfortable fact goes almost completely...
Over the weekend, the U.S. killed Ayman al-Zawahiri, the leader of Al Qaeda and one of the world’s most wanted terrorists, in a drone...
On Sunday, just a day before the 95th-anniversary celebrations to mark the founding of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), China conducted a test launch...
Tip of the Iceberg: Pelosi’s Taiwan Visit and Surging U.S.-China Tensions – Defying Beijing’s objections and warnings, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has...
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant was being used as a “nuclear shield,” adding that he is “deeply...
Over the weekend, Hezbollah threatened Israel’s gas extraction infrastructure in the disputed Karish maritime border between the two countries. The Lebanese-based paramilitary group, seen...
