Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
The People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) has undertaken an ambitious modernization and expansion program that has included the construction of several aircraft carriers. In...
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The People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) has undertaken an ambitious modernization and expansion program that has included the construction of several aircraft carriers. In...
The People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) has continued to maintain a presence in the neutral waters of the South China Sea, which Beijing doesn’t...
Sometimes saber-rattling is just that, saber-rattling. Beijing has repeatedly made it crystal clear that it sees Taiwan as a breakaway province that will be...
The U.S. Navy’s submarine force has been long known by the moniker the “silent service,” but during Exercise Agile Dagger 2021, which kicked off...
China recently added three new vessels to its growing navy on the same day. The move was a first for the service and one that...
A common refrain in these pixels is that strategic competition is an armed debate in which debaters—great powers, usually—flourish implements of war in an...
The U.S. Navy needs more firepower on the cheap. That’s the message retired U.S. Marine colonel T. X. Hammes broadcasts loudly and clearly in...
The closer the United States and its allies come to fielding a cohesive democratic armada, the better their chances of deterring aggressors and shoring...
Editor’s Note: We recently spoke with Dr. Andrew Erickson, a professor of strategy in the U.S. Naval War College (NWC)’s China Maritime Studies Institute...