Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
Ukrainian forces last week launched a major barrage on Russian-occupied Crimea. According to Kyiv, prominent Russian surface-to-air missile systems including an S-400 Triumf were...
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Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev appears to relish embarrassing the State Department. Just weeks after the now-voided ceasefire, Aliyev castigated on live television Andrew Schofer, at the...
While the U.S. has allies that have tanks and fighters it can always depend on; it stands alone against these near-peer adversaries when it...
North Korea has provided support in the civil wars in Ethiopia, Angola, Sri Lanka, and Yemen. Though the number of troops was small, North...
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Russian President Vladimir Putin affirmed their strong ties during initial talks that hinted Russia will provide military...
If successful, in short, the B-21 will present U.S. and allied commanders the opportunity to exploit command of the air before winning it.
Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks set defense commentators aflutter last month when she announced “Replicator,” an initiative meant to field “small, smart, cheap” uncrewed,...
Endorsed! This month over at the Naval Institute Proceedings, coastguardsman Steve Hulse urges the U.S. Navy to procure a flotilla of Sentinel-class fast response cutters...
The odds still favor Russia, both by Moltkean logic and by virtue of Russia’s massive demographic, economic, and military preponderance over Ukraine. But combatants...
The United Arab Emirates may be next in line to join South Korea’s KAI KF-21 Boramae fighter jet program. According to state news outlets...
As Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi spoke at the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, Russia’s Minister of Defense Sergei Shoigu arrived in the Islamic...
In the annals of U.S. military aviation, a fair number of fighter planes’ monikers have been passed from one generation to the next. You...
Ukraine has liberated two important villages in the east of the country, near the destroyed town of Bakhmut.
Even though there’s no way the president can set gas prices, presidential candidate Ron DeSantis’ energy plan has been released, including a promise of...
After some alarming new numbers about rising child poverty, some are wishing for the return of a temporary policy from early on in the...
Donald Trump describes the idea of a tariff on essentially all imports to the U.S. as a “ring around the U.S. economy,” but such...
In 2019, I met with a group affiliated with the United States Trade Representative and a handful of elected officials who were the loudest...
Armenia is flipping. In 1920, 1999, and 2020, Washington was asleep at the switch. It must not make the same mistake four times.
The rhetoric from prominent Republican candidates over the Russian invasion of Ukraine is frightening to say the least.
Ukraine’s survival despite centuries of overlapping rule and subjugation from multiple neighboring empires – Russian, Polish-Lithuanian and later Austro-Hungarian – is a testimony to...
Just as Russia’s erstwhile strongman Vladimir Putin met with North Korea’s great leader with cup in hand, the Levada Center, a respectable Moscow-based polling...
Anthony Fauci, the former head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, does not believe that federal mask mandates will return even...
There has been just enough distance and peace from COVID-19 restrictions and paranoia to let the horrible memories of those terrible two years fade...
Kirillov didn't just suggest that the United States was responsible for the Covid-19 pandemic but also claimed that the Office of Pandemic Preparedness and...
For much of this year, it looked like the COVID-19 pandemic was finally over. But in recent weeks, there have been signs of a...
Talk about gimmicks – former president Donald Trump seems to be making an effort to paint himself as a moderate on the controversial issue...
There have been calls for months for the Democrats to replace Kamala Harris as Joe Biden’s running mate in 2024. The Vice President is...
Why Does Joe Biden Have to Lie? Fact checks on a politician’s claims are nothing new. At the end of his presidency, the Washington...
A vague North Korean-Russia alignment adds a new headache to East Asian security. But without China, it is still underpowered.
The Biden team believes it can shame North Korea into being a responsible actor. But Kim cares not about international prestige but about survival,...
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will reportedly travel to Vladivostok this month to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin. The pair appears to be...
The North Korean navy has grown even more dangerous over the last few years, creating more problems for the U.S. in the Indo-Pacific region.
Ukrainian forces last week launched a major barrage on Russian-occupied Crimea. According to Kyiv, prominent Russian surface-to-air missile systems including an S-400 Triumf were...
The XP-75 Eagle made her maiden flight on November 17, 1943. She was built by the now-defunct Fisher Body Division of General Motors.
According to the latest Morning Consult tracking poll, Donald Trump now has 59 percent support in the contest, for a 46-point lead over anyone else in...
The United States Marine Corps variant of the F-35, "Bravo," features short take-off and vertical landing (STOVL) capabilities. STOVL allows the airframe to operate...
There is intense fighting along the Dnipro River in Kherson Oblast. For several months now, Russia and Ukraine’s militaries have been engaged in a...
