Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
Key Points and Summary – Russia says its long-delayed S-500 Prometheus has entered operational service, reviving claims that advanced SAMs can finally threaten stealth...
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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...
American doctrine promises that any North Korean nuclear attack will end the Kim regime. The Iran war has just tested that assumption. The United...
Read the last three months as a divorce and you will get Canada wrong. Ottawa is cutting its dependence on American defense manufacturers and...
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 Seawolf-class was meant to be the American attack submarine of the 21st century. It was faster than a Los Angeles, dived deeper, ran...
The Constellation-class was supposed to be the safe option — a proven Italian FREMM hull, 85 percent common with the original, mostly off-the-shelf parts,...
The Montana-class was the largest battleship the United States ever designed and none of the five was ever started. At 921 feet with a...
The Kilo-class earned the nickname "black hole" during the Cold War and has been trading on it ever since. Naval analyst H I Sutton...
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...
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...
Iran's Shahab-1 came from the Scud-B and reached 300km. The Khorramshahr, derived from North Korea's Musudan, reaches 2,000km — a 6.7-fold increase in reach.
Key Points and Summary – Russia says its long-delayed S-500 Prometheus has entered operational service, reviving claims that advanced SAMs can finally threaten stealth...
Synopsis – A Chinese state TV report offered a rare look inside PLA wargaming—showing Shenyang J-16 “red” aircraft facing Rafales as the “blue” aggressor...
Synopsis: Forward-swept wings promise sharp subsonic agility, better lift behavior, and shorter takeoffs—exactly why designers flirted with them for carrier and air-superiority fighters. But...
Synopsis: Carl von Clausewitz’s line “war is an act of violence pushed to its utmost limits” comes from On War, published in 1832 after...
Key Points and Summary – South Korea’s KSS-III program is the Navy’s pivot from German-derived boats to a truly indigenous submarine built for long,...
