Christian D. Orr

The U.S. Navy 's Seawolf class nuclear-powered fast-attack submarines (SSNs ) are extremely impressive warships, and back in the day, they seemed like The Next Big Thing in undersea warfare. However, despite their tremendous potential, only three were built: USS Seawolf (SSN-21) USS Connecticut (SSN-22) , and USS Jimmy Carter, commissioned in 1997, 1998, and 2005, respectively . So then, one might reasonably ask: Why were so few of these blockbuster boats built? And how did that impact the U.S. Navy in the long run

Today's world of “ near-peer ”/ Great Power competition , between the United States of America, the Russian Federation, and the People's Republic

Dwight D. Eisenhower famously said it best: “What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight—it's the size of the fight in the dog.” Spoken during a 1958 Republican National Committee speech, the words capture the philosophy of a general who had no combat experience yet went on to mastermind the largest amphibious invasion in human history—D-Day.

George C. Marshall said it best: "Don't fight the problem, decide it." Rejected from West Point, he attended VMI instead, then transformed the U.S. Army from 174,000 men to 1.25 million. He's the only general ever awarded the Nobel Peace Prize—for the Marshall Plan that rebuilt Europe.

General George S. Patton once said it best: “How can a man fail if he replaces everything subordinate to success?” The legendary “Old Blood and Guts” was more than just a hard-charging warrior—he was a master military planner whose preparation skills saved the day at the Battle of the Bulge and conquered Sicily before Field Marshal Montgomery could get there.

“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.” – Colin Powell

Summary and Key Points: The Tsar Bomba is still the largest nuclear device ever detonated: a 50-megaton blast over the Arctic that outstripped every weapon fired in the Second World War combined — and one its own designers had planned to build twice as powerful.

Summary and Key Points: A Hangzhou defense firm, Jingan Technology, says its “Jingqi” AI system intercepted radio signals from four B-2 Spirit bombers — call signs Petro 41 to 44 — and reconstructed their flight path over Iran. It has produced no recordings or transcripts, and the boast echoes an earlier, still-unverified Chinese claim to have tracked the F-35.

Britain set out to build its army a next-generation fighting vehicle. What $8 billion produced, according to a scathing parliamentary report, is a machine that left soldiers vomiting and with permanent hearing damage, and that officials say must be serviced every time it stops. Whether it ever reaches the battlefield is now an open question.

The final bill for the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier now runs to about $1.3 billion — $902 million to inactivate her, $111 million to store her, and $418.5 million awarded this month to dismantle her in Mobile, Alabama. The reason is structural. On a submarine, the reactor compartment comes out as a single section and goes to a disposal site. Enterprise has eight reactors and a compartment too large for that, so the hull has to be disassembled around them, with the reactors eventually reaching a Department of Energy site in Washington State. The work runs into 2030.