Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
Summary and Key Points: Dr. Robert Kelly, a professor of international relations at Pusan National University and an expert on North Korea, analyzes the...
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Lockheed Martin says a new US Army contract will triple PAC-3 MSE production by 2030, from roughly 600 interceptors a year to about 2,000....
Splitting Russia into 4 or 5 states would be neither unprecedented nor strange. There are more than 20 Arab countries. Somalis live across 5....
Iran does not yet have a reconnaissance-strike complex capable of putting a US Navy aircraft carrier battlegroup in serious danger. Finding warships, tracking them,...
Wars rarely win elections. George H.W. Bush ended the Cold War, won the most decisive American military victory in modern history, and lost in...
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...
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 Luftwaffe sent 8 Eurofighter Typhoons and 150 personnel to Alaska in 2012 for two weeks of Red Flag. In close-range basic fighter maneuvers,...
The F-35 Lightning II reportedly finished Red Flag 2017 with a 20:1 kill ratio, killing aggressor F-16s that never knew they had been seen....
Researchers at the China Aerodynamics Research and Development Centre say they have identified aerodynamic and stability weaknesses in the US Air Force's B-21 Raider...
Canada bought three Oberon-class diesel submarines in the 1960s, mainly for training. During a NATO exercise in the Atlantic, one of them was told...
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...
Rezaei's threat goes beyond the strait: no oil leaving the Gulf by any route if neighbors cooperate. In practice that would mean strikes on...
Of the 1.5 billion barrels in emergency stocks, the IEA cannot order the commercial half released, leaving governments under a billion. The American reserve...
The Houthis have no warships. It doesn't need any. A blockade holds if shipowners and insurers decide the passage is not worth the risk,...
Speaking in Baghdad on August 20, Iran's parliament speaker warned that military power counts for nothing if the people are hungry. Four days later...
American forces struck Iranian positions preparing to fire mine-carrying missiles into the Strait of Hormuz. Tehran answered with a handful of missiles that reportedly...
Analysts dismissed American control of the Strait of Hormuz as a near-impossible task. The US government now says it has been helping tankers move...
Drones reached Moscow on three of the last five nights. A ballistic missile would not extend Ukraine's reach so much as compress Russia's warning...
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...
Russia has used North Korean ballistic missiles in Ukraine since late 2023. The early shots missed by kilometers. Later ones did not. That combat...
Summary and Key Points: Dr. Robert Kelly, a professor of international relations at Pusan National University and an expert on North Korea, analyzes the...
Summary and Key Points: Dr. Andrew Latham, a professor of International Relations and a fellow at Defense Priorities, analyzes the tactical friction in the...
Summary and Key Points: Isaac Seitz, a Defense Columnist and Strategic Intelligence graduate of Patrick Henry College, assesses the post-2025 resilience of Iran’s ballistic...
Summary and Key Points: Brent M. Eastwood, PhD, a former tech CEO and legislative fellow for Senator Tim Scott, analyzes the evolution of the...
Summary and Key Points – The USS Gerald R. Ford is heading toward the Middle East as tensions with Iran raise the possibility of...
