Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
Summary and Key Points: The CIA’s A-12 Oxcart, a top-secret Cold War spy plane, was built to fly faster and higher than any predecessor,...
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HMC Ships Moncton and Nanaimo, Canada's last two Kingston-class coastal vessels, are scheduled to be paid off in 2028. The Continental Defence Corvette intended...
An executive order issued on 13 August 2026 directs the Navy to replace the electromagnetic launch system on the fourth Ford-class carrier with steam...
Canada's Army modernization strategy, Inflection Point 2025, states that the Army's sole remaining armoured regiment has a single squadron of tanks that are both...
In April 1997, President Roman Herzog told Germany it needed a Ruck — a jolt — to break out of national lethargy and undertake...
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 second Trump administration is reviewing America's military footprint in Europe, and the worst-case outcome is a full withdrawal. Andrew Michta argues that would...
It is now only a matter of time to see whether the Chinese J-20 has more lethal missile-carrying capacity or if the F-35’s “beast...
US Navy aircraft carrier USS Doris Miller has already slipped by two years and is now due to reach the Navy in 2034. Trump's...
Sweden built the JAS 39 Gripen to fight after its airfields were gone. It is not a stealth jet. In 2026 it is still...
General Atomics holds a $1.2 billion contract to build the Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System and Advanced Arresting Gear for Ford-Class aircraft carrier USS Doris...
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,...
Washington redirected 55 commercial vessels away from Iranian ports as of Sunday, up from 35 a week earlier, while the Kpler intelligence firm counted...
Supply boats bring food and water. Wages arrive late or not at all. A union leader likens it to imprisonment, and one Indian sailor...
Dr. Michael Rubin argues that Israel's targeted killing campaign against Palestinian militants a quarter of a century ago ultimately produced two decades of relative...
Since Khamenei took over in March, Iran's Supreme National Security Council has had three secretaries. Ali Larijani was killed in an airstrike a few...
Iran's strategy is to drag the war out. James Jay Carafano argues that protraction is the only card the IRGC holds, and that Trump...
Trump calls the strait "sort of open." Iran calls the arrangement "a new and different model." Last June, vague wording in a similar deal...
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.
North Korea has roughly 60 nuclear weapons and Kim Jong-un keeps demanding an exponential increase. Bruce Bennett works the problem backward, from Kim's objectives...
Xi's first Pyongyang visit in seven years, a ratified Russia pact, and a declaration that the arsenal is permanent: Andrew Latham on why the...
Last year North Korea's newest destroyer rolled over at its own launch, and the world assumed the program was finished for years. Instead Pyongyang...
Summary and Key Points: The CIA’s A-12 Oxcart, a top-secret Cold War spy plane, was built to fly faster and higher than any predecessor,...
Summary and Key Points: The April 2022 sinking of Russia’s flagship Moskva by Ukraine’s Neptune missile marked the beginning of the end for the...
Summary and Key Points: The U.S. Navy currently operates 11 aircraft carriers, but increasing threats from China, Iran, and regional instability argue strongly for...
René Obermann, a leading German military industrialist, has stated that he sees “strong indications” that an emboldened Russian President Vladimir Putin is mobilizing forces...
Summary and Key Points: The Merkava tank, developed by Israel after the 1973 Yom Kippur War, represents Israeli innovation and resilience. -Distinctive features include...
