Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
Having dominated the unfriendly skies for the Navy from 1974 to 2006, the variable-sweep “swing wing” plane was meant to protect US carriers and...
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Having dominated the unfriendly skies for the Navy from 1974 to 2006, the variable-sweep “swing wing” plane was meant to protect US carriers and...
Joining the military at age 18, serving for 20 years, and retiring at 38 is often pitched as a commonsense pathway to financial stability...
At 10 am EST today, the U.S. Navy began enforcing a blockade of all maritime traffic entering and departing Iranian ports. The announced purpose...
The Trump administration just walked away from a major submarine repair because the economics (and the painful reality) no longer made sense. This move...
There is an old rule in medicine that applies with uncomfortable precision to war: never stop taking antibiotics halfway through the course. Do, and...
We all remember the iconic scene in the first “Top Gun” film. Maverick, played by Tom Cruise, tells his Radar Intercept Officer (RIO), “Sorry,...
U.S. Central Command has announced that the United States will blockade the Strait of Hormuz beginning today. This is a surprising move that comes...
USS Nimitz: When America’s Most Iconic Supercarrier Became an Inferno – America’s Nimitz-class nuclear-powered supercarrier replaced the Kitty Hawk-class aircraft carrier decades ago. The namesake...
New Countermine System Aims to Flip Script for U.S. Naval Allies: One aspect of naval warfare that the United States and its allies must...
A U.S. Blockade of Iran Is the Right Move: Forty-seven years of mismanagement have left Iran a paradox. On paper, it should be one...