Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
Synopsis: The MiG-25 “Foxbat” is mostly retired, but its legend endures as the fastest fighter-interceptor ever built. -When it appeared in 1970, it spooked...
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Dr. Robert Kelly, a professor of international relations at Pusan National University, argues the separation of powers in American foreign policy has nearly collapsed,...
Dr. Robert Farley argues a renewed US-Israeli air campaign against Iran awaits only the midterm elections, citing a New York Times report of personnel...
American-flagged vessels account for less than 0.3 percent of the shipping carrying U.S. trade, and the country graduates several hundred naval architects a year...
Both sides would use a Ukraine war pause to rearm, and a longer pause may mean a bloodier spring. Michael Rubin argues Kyiv should...
Putin’s proposal for a U.S.-China-Russia trilateral in China — with Ukraine and Europe excluded — has revived Beltway enthusiasm for a “Kissinger-in-reverse” bid to...
The Trump administration’s deal to allow Russian diesel into the United States blindsided Kyiv and Europe alike — halting peace talks, triggering threats to...
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...
Brandon J. Weichert reads the fine print on aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy (CVN-79), the Gerald R. Ford-class ship that passed preliminary acceptance...
Sean Spoonts traces aircraft carrier USS Wasp (CV-7) back to arithmetic. The Washington naval treaties gave the US Navy 135,000 tons of carriers; Lexington...
“Our Navy is the surest guarantee of peace and the cheapest insurance against war,” Theodore Roosevelt reportedly told a University of Virginia audience in...
Japan’s Taigei-class is its most advanced attack submarine: 84 meters long, 3,000 tons, built around lithium-ion batteries that replaced the Sōryū-class’s Stirling air-independent propulsion...
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...
For four and a half years the request was essentially a check, and the argument was that a properly supplied David could match Goliath....
Let Trump be Trump—which he will be anyway. Even if his peace efforts fail (which is entirely possible), American interests will be protected, and...
Dr. Robert Kelly argues that Donald Trump’s second term is alienating allies as no president has since 1945: refusing Saudi Arabia’s request to strike...
Signing the largest Russia sanctions package to date and then floating a diesel arrangement looks contradictory only if one assumes the two acts are...
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...
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...
Synopsis: The MiG-25 “Foxbat” is mostly retired, but its legend endures as the fastest fighter-interceptor ever built. -When it appeared in 1970, it spooked...
Synopsis: George Washington’s famous line—“Discipline is the soul of an army”—captures the organizing principle he carried into the Continental Army as the Revolution began....
Synopsis: A famous maxim attributed to Jim Mattis—“Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody you meet”—frames a career built on...
Synopsis: China aired rare footage of a PLAAF war-gaming exercise simulating air combat between eight J-16 fighters and six Dassault Rafales in a tabletop-style...
Synopsis: The Amazing Arsenal of the DaFrance’s Dassault Rafale may be a 4.5-generation fighter, but it remains a formidable combat aircraft thanks to the depth...
