Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
The Future Combat Air System (FCAS), Europe’s ambitious attempt to secure air sovereignty for the 2040s, is facing an existential industrial deadlock. Dassault Aviation...
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The Future Combat Air System (FCAS), Europe’s ambitious attempt to secure air sovereignty for the 2040s, is facing an existential industrial deadlock. Dassault Aviation...
Summary and Key Points: Jack Buckby, a New York-based national security researcher, evaluates the parallel development of sixth-generation fighters by the United States and...
However, Harrison Kass, a national security analyst and attorney, warns that "tactical success and strategic failure can be true together." While the infrastructure is...
As of March 6, 2026, the strategic success of Operation Epic Fury is colliding with a cold political reality: the "risk premium" of a...
Christian D. Orr, Senior Defense Editor and former Air Force officer, evaluates the "dolorous goodbye" delivered to the IRIS Shahid Bagheri—Iran's prized drone carrier....
The Virginia-class attack submarine, originally conceived as a flexible "bridge" between Cold War leviathans and future stealth platforms, has officially become the indispensable—and overburdened—backbone...
Harry J. Kazianis, Editor-in-Chief of 19FortyFive and veteran national security expert, evaluates the "Washington-speak" beginning to echo in the West Wing. He argues that...
The "Wilderness Years" (1929–1939) were not a vacuum of inactivity for Winston Churchill; they were the crucible in which his wartime leadership was forged....
As of March 6, 2026, Operation Epic Fury is entering soon a second week of high-intensity kinetic strikes without a single American or allied...
The "courage to go on" was Napoleon Bonaparte's defining characteristic. Yet, his legacy is studied as much for his catastrophic failures as his tactical...