Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
The U.S. Navy is facing a crisis: it is too small to meet the operational requirements being imposed on it. Furthermore, in terms of...
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The U.S. Navy is facing a crisis: it is too small to meet the operational requirements being imposed on it. Furthermore, in terms of...
In June, two important events vaulted Iran’s navy into international headlines. The first was the sinking of the IRIS Kharg in the Persian Gulf on June...
Lao Tzu is credited with his statement, “There is no greater danger than underestimating your opponent.” Whether United States Senator Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) actually...
What happens in a great-power war when the U.S. Navy can’t maintain or repair its warships? In what should be seen as a truly...
There was a time a few years ago, however brief, that some of us Asia-defense nerds had an unorthodox idea to tip the military...
During the Cold War, despite having the world’s largest navy, the Soviet Union was still primarily a land power and as a result, the...
Back in the Winter 2010 edition of Orbis, the always smart James Kraska, at the time an investigator at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, presented his...
Live a T-shaped life. To oversimplify a trifle, that means trying to know something about everything and everything about one thing. It means combining...
Can a modern nuclear-powered aircraft carrier survive a massive explosion that registers as a 3.9 magnitude earthquake? There is one way to find out,...
Earlier this month it was reported that the U.S. Navy was looking to boost the number of days a Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) could...