Author: Jake Thompson

Every time people talk about a turning point in military history, Operation Desert Storm comes up. More than three decades after the fact, its impact

The F-16 Fighting Falcon has rightly acquired a reputation as one of the most reliable and responsive multirole fighters on the planet. Conceived in the

The B-1B Lancer, widely referred to as “the BONE” (short for “B-One”), is one of those anomalous aircraft that survived to live another day beyond

Now and then, a weapon appears that alters the beat of a war. For Ukraine, that weapon may be the Flamingo cruise missile—a new long-range

When Donald Trump returned to the White House, he did not waste time stamping America’s strategy on the long war between Ukraine and Russia with

Montana-class battleships are one of the biggest “what might have been” stories of American naval history. They were laid down at a time when the

Less common than ever before, errors in air power in the military have, of late, become a sobering pattern for the Russian air force. Collateral

Few weapons have ever revolutionized warfare as much as the atomic bomb. Its history started in 1938, when scientists in Germany found nuclear fission. That