Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
The Navy’s four Ohio-class guided-missile submarines can carry up to 616 Tomahawks between them. Their retirement begins in 2026, while delayed Virginia-class production and...
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The maximalists wanted regime change, the minimalists wanted nothing, and the doubters see only waffling. Carafano's answer: the victor gets to define victory —...
Reports indicate that American short-range ballistic missile inventories have been nearly exhausted and Tomahawk stockpiles badly depleted during the war with Iran. Patriot interceptors...
A peace settlement would have to resolve occupied territory, Ukraine's relationship with the West and sanctions, and neither government is close enough to the...
On July 20, a China Coast Guard team in a small boat closed on Philippine sailors near Second Thomas Shoal and repeatedly struck one...
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...
Western analysts fixate on North Korea's missiles. The real danger is speed — a mass artillery-and-missile salvo in the war's first hours, backed by...
The second Trump administration is reviewing America's military footprint in Europe, and the worst-case outcome is a full withdrawal. Andrew Michta argues that would...
The US-Iran Memorandum of Understanding is being judged on whether it cools tensions in the Persian Gulf. Strategic-studies scholar Andrew Michta argues that's the...
Russia's titanium Sierra remains an engineering achievement rather than a production model. Two Sierra II submarines remain associated with the Russian Northern Fleet, while...
Supporting the landings on Tinian in 1944, USS Colorado was struck 22 times by Japanese shore batteries. Forty-three of her crew were killed and...
The Navy planned twenty-nine Seawolf-class attack submarines to take on the Soviet fleet. After the Cold War ended, Congress reduced the programme to twelve,...
On 5 March 1962 the B-58 "Cowtown Hustler" flew from Los Angeles to New York City and back, set three world speed records and...
No vessel entered any of the three Ukrainian ports in the Odesa region on Wednesday, the first such day since the grain corridor opened...
Oil futures are signaling that traders expect prices to fall over the coming months, despite the war and the disruption around Hormuz. The bet...
Ukraine's long-range drone strikes on Russian refineries have spread the fuel crisis into the countryside just as harvest begins, one analyst argues, with farmers...
Two tankers loaded with Saudi crude reversed course in the Red Sea — without being fired on — after the Houthis threatened any ship...
Ukraine on Tuesday executed a series of drone strikes on an industrial zone near Moscow, and across the whole country, strikes on three warehouses...
A cruise missile came down about 90 kilometers inside Poland and hurt no one. That incident will be logged and forgotten. The question underneath...
Getting to Somaliland used to be simple. Then Somaliland refused more than a quarter of a billion dollars to drop Taiwan, and the routes...
Zelensky met Raytheon executives in Kyiv, saying Ukraine is moving to co-produce Patriot missiles under plans he discussed with Trump — though waiting lists...
North Korea has roughly 60 nuclear weapons and Kim Jong-un keeps demanding an exponential increase. Bruce Bennett works the problem backward, from Kim's objectives...
Xi's first Pyongyang visit in seven years, a ratified Russia pact, and a declaration that the arsenal is permanent: Andrew Latham on why the...
Last year North Korea's newest destroyer rolled over at its own launch, and the world assumed the program was finished for years. Instead Pyongyang...
The KN-23, North Korea's version the Russian Iskander missile, showed up to fight in the Ukraine war. And it isn't the same platform as...
The Navy’s four Ohio-class guided-missile submarines can carry up to 616 Tomahawks between them. Their retirement begins in 2026, while delayed Virginia-class production and...
Decommissioning a U.S. Navy nuclear submarine requires far more than lowering its flag. The Navy removes weapons, extracts the spent reactor fuel, seals and...
Canada Joined GCAP to Hedge Its Fighter Future Without Paying the Development Bill: Canada became the first observer nation in the Global Combat Air...
NASA's Perseverance rover has found complex, ring-shaped carbon molecules sealed inside rocks in Mars's Jezero Crater, a basin that billions of years ago held...
The World’s Navies Reserve Nuclear Power for Submarines and a Few Giant Warships: Nuclear propulsion has been at sea for more than 70 years,...
