The 56th Fighter Group led by Colonel Hubert Zemke scored over 500 kills before its ace commander's transfer. | Continue reading
Semiconductor manufacturer Intel’s latest quarterly corporate report ominously noted some serious potential technological vulnerabilities capable of undermining America’s prosperity as well as its national security. | Continue reading
Did you know: The E-6’s sinister purpose is to maintain the communication link between the national command authority and U.S. nuclear forces. | Continue reading
Did it work? | Continue reading
There has never been any love lost between Turkey and Greece, but the danger of war between the two NATO members has not been this high since the Cyprus conflict more than forty-five years ago. In the past, Turkey and Greece have gone to the brink, but policies initiated by Turki … | Continue reading
Not as much as an F-35 for sure. | Continue reading
Forget about “AI” itself: it’s all about the math, and America is failing to train enough citizens in the right kinds of mathematics to remain dominant. | Continue reading
China made some mistakes, as did every country, in responding to the coronavirus, but China’s overall response was more effective than most countries, with domestic quarantines of inter-city travelers, widespread mask-wearing, and a testing and tracing regime with access to a vas … | Continue reading
The Russian president offers a comprehensive assessment of the legacy of World War II, arguing that "Today, European politicians, and Polish leaders in particular, wish to sweep the Munich Betrayal under the carpet. The Munich Betrayal showed to the Soviet Union that the Western … | Continue reading
The new stealth U.S. Air Force B-21 bomber has taken yet another key technological step toward being ready for war, through integrated computer automation designed to streamline information, improve targeting and offer pilots organized warzone information in real-time. | Continue reading
The difference between the L-Strain and S-Strain amounts to two specific amino acids—sort of like a change of two lines of code in a computer program. | Continue reading
The U.S. Air Force is getting ready to launch its sixth mission with the mysterious X-37B space plane. If history is any guide, space mission OTV-6 could last as long as two years. | Continue reading
At its core, Hunter Killers is mostly about just three men—attack submarine captains Rob Forsyth, Doug Littlejohns and Tim Hale—and a handful of boats including HMS Dreadnought, the Royal Navy’s first nuclear-powered sub, and HMS Swiftsure, lead vessel of what is arguably Britain … | Continue reading
And no, it does not involve suffocating pilots or sci-fi line helmets. | Continue reading
And they aren't even nuclear powered. | Continue reading
What does Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus owe to Beijing? | Continue reading
The U.S. Air Force went to war in Afghanistan in 2001 badly unprepared for fighting fleet-footed Taliban insurgents who blend in with the rough terrain. In particular, the Air Force’s jet fighters—designed and equipped for supersonic combat against Soviet planes—lacked sensors ca … | Continue reading
Airlines, cafes, hotels, restaurants and theaters are shutting down as COVID-19 infects the global retail sector. As shoppers shut their wallets, a consumer-driven global recession could be the next threat posed by the pandemic. | Continue reading
The winner in this deepening struggle between the White House and the intelligence world is not yet clear. But the loser is already evident: American national security. | Continue reading
Got 'em. | Continue reading
DARPA develops advanced interceptor capable of engaging hypersonic threats - DARPA calls it "counter-hypersonics." | Continue reading
Korea, the Middle East and much more. | Continue reading
It could have killed millions--and served as the ultimate Cold War terror weapon. | Continue reading
Beijing is not just trying to master artificial intelligence—it is succeeding. AI will have as transformative an impact on commerce and national security over the next two decades as semiconductors, computers and the web have had over the past quarter century. | Continue reading
The notion that presidential suggestions or guidance can influence a Pentagon procurement decision betrays a fundamental lack of understanding of how the acquisition processes work within the Defense Department. | Continue reading
The West can excoriate China all it wants on its debt traps, lack of transparency, and pernicious diplomacy. But unless the West comes up with better solutions, that dirt road, for the developing world, is still a dirt road. | Continue reading
A quantum computing future is unlikely, due to random hardware errors. | Continue reading
Why did this weapon fail to make it to the battlefield? | Continue reading
Russia might not like this. | Continue reading
Had Japan somehow pulled off a second, stunning raid on Pearl Harbor in 1944? In truth the ships and men burning were victims of a horrifying accident born of inadequate safety measures—an incident the Navy kept under wraps for years. | Continue reading
Be on notice. | Continue reading
Two words: missile range. | Continue reading
History. | Continue reading
The Army is preparing to incinerate enemy weapons “targets” in an upcoming in a “laser-off” firing of its emerging Stryker-armed 50-kilowatt laser weapon designed to destroy drones, helicopters, fixed-wing aircraft and incoming enemy missiles. | Continue reading
It just might be. | Continue reading
The CCP seems deathly afraid of facing up to even a mild recession. But why? It’s not as if the end of the economic party means the end of the Communist Party. | Continue reading
It is common to ascribe America’s growing difficulties with Russia to President Vladimir Putin personally, but the sources of Russian discontent predate Putin’s presidency. | Continue reading
If Donald Trump exits the presidency, Mike Pence would pursue a hawkish foreign policy. | Continue reading
Let's hope it never happens. | Continue reading
The prospect of a future conflict with China or Russia is forcing the U.S. military to reexamine its current doctrine. | Continue reading
A World War II tale you may have never heard of. | Continue reading
This may have been of the most timely and cost-efficient investment in the history of naval warfare. | Continue reading
It was a good attempt that was sabotaged due to really bad timing. | Continue reading
Four words: coal-fired power plants. | Continue reading
Those pesky carrier-killer missiles, new detection methods that can 'unsteatlh submarines' and other threats loom large. Is the age of warships, submarines and aircraft carriers over? | Continue reading
What happened? | Continue reading