Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
I have long been interested in the comings and goings of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, stealth technology in general and what the future...
Hi, what are you looking for?
USS Long Beach commissioned in 1961 as the first nuclear-powered surface warship, and she looked like nothing else afloat — a slab-sided superstructure built...
A cruise missile came down about 90 kilometers inside Poland and hurt no one. That incident will be logged and forgotten. The question underneath...
Ottawa is still debating whether to complete its purchase of 88 F-35s, and the arithmetic has moved against it. The original figure was about...
Ukraine needs Patriot interceptors now, and Zelensky has asked for three hundred before winter. The more consequential project is the one announced this month:...
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...
The sticker price on an F-35A is $82.5 million, and it does not describe the aircraft. A flyaway figure is not a combat-worthy aircraft,...
A stray Zuni rocket, unstable bombs and bypassed safety procedures nearly destroyed USS Forrestal and killed 134 sailors off Vietnam.
The J-35A grew from a company-funded FC-31 demonstrator into the PLAAF’s second stealth fighter. Its publicly known performance may not match the F-22’s kinematics...
Satellite imagery taken in late June and early July indicates eleven J-20 fighters at two Chinese bases near the disputed border with India —...
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...
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...
In a new analysis, national security expert James Jay Carafano argues President Trump has already achieved America's key objectives against Iran and is de-risking...
The Pentagon's official count of American troops killed in the Iran conflict dropped from eighteen to fourteen between Wednesday and Thursday, the New York...
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...
I have long been interested in the comings and goings of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, stealth technology in general and what the future...
With the latest jobs numbers out today looking a little better, well, if you want to call under one million new unemployment filings ‘good...
Ok, I will admit it, for the longest time, I was no fan of the Bush 41 foreign policy team nor their policies. History,...
Over at the American Conservative, I have a new reported piece out that details some of the drama surrounding U.S. forces in South Korea....
While I do my best not to write on U.S. domestic politics, Donald Trump’s action yesterday to leverage multiple Executive Orders to give the...
