Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
Summary and Key Points: The A-10 Warthog, a Cold War-era legend, has found a second life as a critical naval asset in the Persian...
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Summary and Key Points: The A-10 Warthog, a Cold War-era legend, has found a second life as a critical naval asset in the Persian...
Summary and Key Points: On February 10, 2026, Chinese officials presented a J-20 stealth fighter model to the Commander of the IRIAF in Tehran,...
Summary and Key Points: In the post-Soviet 1990s, U.S.-Russia cooperation on arms control helped fuel a wider nonproliferation push through the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat...
Summary and Key Points: After fresh warnings from U.S. President Trump over Iran’s nuclear program, U.S. naval forces moved deeper into the 5th Fleet...
World War III in 2026? Summary and Key Points: With restraints on great-power behavior weakening, 2026 could bring sharper escalation risks across five arenas....
Can Iran Really Shut Hormuz? The Small-Boat And Missile Threat Facing U.S. Warships Iran’s threat to disrupt the Strait of Hormuz is resurfacing as...
Can Iran’s “Black Hole” Subs Sink a US Supercarrier? Now that the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group has entered U.S. Central Command waters,...
Summary and Key Points: Iran unveiled the Qaher-313 in February 2013 as a domestically produced “stealth fighter,” portraying it as a major leap in...
Summary and Key Points: The U.S. has deployed the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group to the Middle East amid warnings from Iranian leadership...
Summary and Key Points: Exercise Kraken Reach 2026 stress-tested U.S. heavy airlift by pushing eight C-17 Globemaster IIIs out back-to-back from Joint Base Lewis-McChord...