Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
Summary and Key Points: As U.S. naval forces surge toward the Persian Gulf, Iran is signaling that any strikes would trigger retaliation—including attempts to...
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Summary and Key Points: As U.S. naval forces surge toward the Persian Gulf, Iran is signaling that any strikes would trigger retaliation—including attempts to...
Canada’s defense spending surge is colliding with a politically fraught fighter decision. Ottawa committed to 88 F-35s and funded an initial 16, but rising...
A 2015 joint U.S.-French naval exercise is often cited as a reminder that aircraft carriers, while central to American sea power, are not invulnerable....
The USS John F. Kennedy (CVN-79), the Navy’s second Ford-class aircraft carrier, has departed Newport News for its first builder’s sea trials—testing core ship...
Niccolò Machiavelli’s most unsettling observations about politics were shaped by hard experience in Renaissance Florence and later distilled into The Prince. After serving on...
Summary and Key Points: During a NATO exercise in the 1980s, a Canadian Oberon-class diesel-electric submarine penetrated the defenses of the USS Dwight D....
The proposed Trump-class battleship arrives as a surprise in an era focused on smaller, distributed naval forces. Yet a large missile-carrying surface combatant could...
Summary and Key Points: A preliminary assessment by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) suggests the proposed Trump-class battleship (BBG) could cost between $18 and...
Summary and Key Points: The Pentagon’s rejection of the Boeing X-32 in favor of the Lockheed Martin F-35 was not merely a choice between...
Summary and Key Points: The U.S. Navy has begun a critical modernization of its Zumwalt-class destroyers, replacing the ships’ failed Advanced Gun Systems with...