Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
Summary and Key Points: In the 1995–1996 Taiwan Strait Crisis, U.S. carrier groups exposed a painful Chinese reality: Beijing could not reliably find, track,...
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Summary and Key Points: In the 1995–1996 Taiwan Strait Crisis, U.S. carrier groups exposed a painful Chinese reality: Beijing could not reliably find, track,...
Summary and Key Points: USS Nimitz (CVN-68), commissioned in 1975, isn’t just the lead ship of the Nimitz-class—she’s a floating symbol of how American...
Summary and Key Points: With the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln already positioned in the Arabian Sea, the USS Gerald R. Ford...
Summary and Key Points: As Washington sends a second carrier group to the Middle East, the key question isn’t negotiations with Iran but whether...
Summary and Key Points: France’s Charles de Gaulle is the only nuclear-powered aircraft carrier in service outside the United States, and it remains the...
Summary and Key Points: A Taiwan contingency would put U.S. aircraft carriers in a far harsher environment than 1996. China’s A2/AD network—anti-ship ballistic missiles,...
Summary and Key Points: China’s aircraft carrier program is advancing with the Type 003 Fujian, its first vessel utilizing Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch Systems (EMALS)....
Summary and Key Points: President Trump has signaled the deployment of a second aircraft carrier strike group toward Iran as a “deal or strike”...
Supercarrier Era Over for the U.S. Navy? Summary and Key Points -Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Daryl Caudle unveiled his “U.S. Navy Fighting Instructions”...
Summary and Key Points: As Iran’s popular revolt intensifies, the Trump administration has signaled that “help is on the way,” backed by a massive...