Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
Accidents, confrontations, miscalculations, false alarms, and mistakes can lead to shooting wars, especially when you have various threatening pairings such as Russia versus NATO...
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Accidents, confrontations, miscalculations, false alarms, and mistakes can lead to shooting wars, especially when you have various threatening pairings such as Russia versus NATO...
The United States Air Force has demonstrated the ability for its bombers to strike almost anywhere on the globe, and it can keep its...
For decades the US special-operations community has had a set of “truths” to guide how it selects and train commandos and how it fights....
The MC-130J Commando II is a special missions aircraft based on the legendary C-130 Hercules, but heavily modified for the rigors of clandestine special...
For the past few years, China has been accelerating the professionalization and modernization of its military forces, adding new aircraft and ships at an...
The virtual summit between President Joe Biden and Chinese ruler Xi Jinping, scheduled for Monday evening Washington time, will score a big win—for China....
This week the Japan Times reported that Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense has issued its latest biennial military strategy document. (The Times evidently laid...
We have a new naval reality, not just because the sea has changed but also because the balance of maritime power has changed. The...
In recent years, as China has grown stronger and acted more like an aspiring hegemon in the Indo-Pacific region, a new and increasingly robust...
Editor’s Note: Having distilled the 2021 China Military Power Report (CMPR)’s key findings into a six-page summary last week, Dr. Andrew S. Erickson now...