Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
China continues to defy expectations with its massive military buildup. As the Americans tut-tut about whatever overpriced and underperforming manned system, like the F-47...
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China continues to defy expectations with its massive military buildup. As the Americans tut-tut about whatever overpriced and underperforming manned system, like the F-47...
Iran's first danger after sanctions relief isn't the first Russian jet or Chinese radar it buys, argues scholar Andrew Latham. It's the workshop that...
Iran keeps returning to the Strait of Hormuz because it works. As Andrew Latham argues, Tehran doesn't need to close the waterway, or even...
Newly revealed footage shows the damage from a fire that tore through the USS Gerald R. Ford, the most expensive warship ever built. What...
Vice President JD Vance has hailed his Switzerland negotiations over Iran's nuclear program as diplomatic progress. Middle East Forum scholar Dr. Michael Rubin argues...
The US-Iran Memorandum of Understanding is being judged on whether it cools tensions in the Persian Gulf. Strategic-studies scholar Andrew Michta argues that's the...
The United States and Iran can probably keep the shooting stopped for 60 days — but only if neither side mistakes the pause for...
The terms of the Memorandum of Understanding ending the U.S.-Iran war are now public. This analysis argues the deal is worth supporting as an...
The Ticonderoga-class cruisers were the most heavily armed surface warships America ever built — 122 missile cells each. Congress forced the Navy to keep...
After more than $12 billion and a string of failed tests, the US Army is finishing the first battery of Dark Eagle — America's...