Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
China’s artificial islands in the South China Sea aren’t just military infrastructure—they’re permanently staffed military nodes housing between 5,000 and 10,000 troops across 27...
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China’s artificial islands in the South China Sea aren’t just military infrastructure—they’re permanently staffed military nodes housing between 5,000 and 10,000 troops across 27...
China’s island-building campaign is mostly addressed from a military angle. But ecologists often describe the decline as among the fastest in coral reef history....
China is now on track to triple its aircraft carrier fleet to nine warships by 2035—averaging one new carrier every 20 months in the...
President Donald Trump just submitted the largest defense budget request in American history—a staggering $1.5 trillion that includes a massive expansion of nuclear weapons...
China is reportedly preparing to sell up to 40 of its J-35A (or J-35AE) stealth fighters to Pakistan in what would be the first...
China is close to operating more attack submarines than the United States Navy, and Beijing is rolling out the new SHANG III class with...
The debate over what China’s military is actually for keeps producing the wrong answer because it keeps asking the wrong question. Global power projection...
In a relatively short period of time, China has evolved from a rising power with no aircraft carriers to one with three aircraft carriers,...
The U.S. Air Force just sent F-22 Raptors to Basa Air Base in the Philippines—a deliberate move to remind China that, despite the war...
One of the United States Marine Corps’ top generals thinks that China is not a near-peer rival of the United States — it is...