Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
The scheduled withdrawal of the USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75) in June 2026 marks a high-stakes transition for the U.S. Navy. As the aircraft...
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President Trump says he gets along with Kim Jong Un and wants a new summit before the end of 2026, along with smaller US-South...
Germany hadn’t spent 1.5 percent of GDP on defense since 1996. Then came the Zeitenwende: €100 billion for the Bundeswehr and a 4,800-strong brigade...
A former US Navy ASW operator says the Kilo-class ‘black hole’ hype was a joke. Quiet only at 3 knots, it has to snorkel...
Tehran's strategy was to wait out the midterms. Instead the US kept the war going past Memorial Day, cleared the strait, tightened the maritime...
Sabotage at Leipzig, Swindon, and Skarżysko-Kamienna. A curfew across the river from Narva. New garrisons at Petrozavodsk, Lupche-Savino, and Pechenga pointing at Finland's 830-mile...
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...
“I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals,” Winston Churchill said, and...
On July 28, 1976, SR-71 61-7958 set the absolute speed record that still stands, 2,193.2 mph, about Mach 3.3, while a second Blackbird set...
“Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of the men who follow and of the...
On January 25, 1966, Lockheed test pilot Bill Weaver was cruising an SR-71 Blackbird at Mach 3.18 and 79,000 feet with the center of...
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...
The rial has hit 2.5 million to the dollar, inflation is projected near 69 percent, and Iranian oil moving through the Strait of Hormuz...
Twenty-five years on, 9/11's lessons are still contested, except the simplest: the US mistook quiet for peace. A RAND strategist argues it is doing...
The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, Foreign Policy, and the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies have all warned of an escalating Russian gray...
Surely there is reluctance among a part of the Russian population – especially those living in major cities – to see their sons dragged...
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...
The scheduled withdrawal of the USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75) in June 2026 marks a high-stakes transition for the U.S. Navy. As the aircraft...
Securing a pilot slot through Air Force Officer Training School (OTS) is widely regarded as the most statistically grueling path to the cockpit. In...
The acceleration of the B-21 Raider program marks a significant shift in American long-range strike doctrine as 2026 unfolds. By transitioning from a "boutique"...
The deployment of the "Dark Eagle" (Long-Range Hypersonic Weapon) in March 2026 marks the end of the "hypersonic gap" and a fundamental shift in...
The Midway-class represents the pivotal evolutionary step that transformed the U.S. Navy from a propeller-driven fleet into the jet-age supercarrier force that currently dominates...
