Daily Archives: Mar 20, 2026

"What does the intersection of the most expensive defense purchase of a nation and rising costs and geopolitics mean? Switzerland is learning the hard lesson. The purchase of 36 F-35A Lightning IIs for the Alpine country’s Air 2030 program has faced turbulence that might lead to shifting the entire...

“The margin for error is nearly zero.” This mantra has frequently been spoken within Special Operations Command ranks to explain why its arsenal consists of nothing like that of more traditional military units. A SOCOM mission set requires weapons that align highly highly for accuracy, silence, adaptability, or brute...

Forget the old playbook in naval warfare; Ukraine just tore it out and set it ablaze. In a conflict already defined by technological improvisation, Kyiv has pulled off an audacious claim of the first-ever underwater drone strike to disable a submarine, challenging decades of maritime doctrine. If reports are...