Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
The recent outbreak of hostilities between Armenia and Azerbaijan may be competing for attention in a noisy press, but it has spawned a cottage...
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The war began on 28 February with little public explanation. The administration did not make a full case to Congress or to the country,...
A modern Arleigh Burke Flight III destroyer costs about $3 billion. At $23.4 billion, USS Defiant represents nearly eight of them. Pursuing the battleship...
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...
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...
USS California survived the Cold War and Desert Storm without being damaged in action. She was decommissioned on 9 July 1999 and sent for...
At 1104 on 4 May 1982, two Argentine Super Étendards launched Exocets at HMS Sheffield from twenty to thirty miles out. The ship's anti-air...
The USS Gerald R. Ford was designed alongside the F-35C. Then the fighter took a hotter Pratt & Whitney F135 engine, after the carrier's...
The Zumwalt was built around the Advanced Gun System, a 155mm weapon that could fire only one projectile — and when the class shrank...
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...
Trump calls the strait "sort of open." Iran calls the arrangement "a new and different model." Last June, vague wording in a similar deal...
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...
Ukraine on Tuesday executed a series of drone strikes on an industrial zone near Moscow, and across the whole country, strikes on three warehouses...
On July 20, a China Coast Guard team in a small boat closed on Philippine sailors near Second Thomas Shoal and repeatedly struck one...
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 recent outbreak of hostilities between Armenia and Azerbaijan may be competing for attention in a noisy press, but it has spawned a cottage...
Despite North Korea being hammered this year by three typhoons, constant food insecurity issues, international sanctions and now threats from COVID-19, the Kim regime...
With North Korea just wrapping up on tape delay its 75th Anniversary Worker’s Party military parade–and new ICBMs on display–below is the text of...
Harvard’s undergraduate college went entirely online this fall. So did Princeton’s. Yale’s is mostly online. The UK’s Cambridge University will stay online throughout the...
Read this paragraph and tell me what is wrong with it, or what at least jumps out at you, fellow Korea watchers: “For weeks,...
