Cruise missile

July 17, 2026 | John Hardie |

Russia’s ‘Banderol’ low-cost cruise missile officially breaks cover

Moscow officially acknowledged its new S8000 Banderol air-launched cruise missile for the first time in a state media report published this week. This comes as the missile, designed as a low-cost option...

April 7, 2025 | Ryan Brobst, Bradley Bowman

Arsenal of Democracy

Arming Taiwan, Ukraine, and Israel While Strengthening the U.S. Industrial Base

September 17, 2021 | Behnam Ben Taleblu, Bradley Bowman, David Maxwell

New Cruise Missile Gives North Korea Lethal Capability

The long-range weapon could strike South Korea, Japan, and U.S. bases in the region.

February 22, 2018 | Behnam Ben Taleblu

Iranian Cruise Missiles also a Proliferation Threat

In its new Worldwide Threat Assessment for 2018, the U.S. intelligence community warns that...

November 9, 2017 | Behnam Ben Taleblu |

Iran’s New Missile Cap Offer Is a Total Sham

Co-authored by Richard Goldberg. Last week, the head of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps...

August 25, 2014 | Behnam Ben Taleblu |

Don’t Forget Iran’s Ballistic Missiles

Last month, the P5+1 and Iran arranged for an extension of Joint Plan of Action (JPOA), the interim nuclear deal that was agreed to in Geneva in late 2013 and implemented in January of this year....

June 13, 2011 | Clifford D. May

COIN is not Small Change

It’s the Pentagon’s job to prepare for wars of the future. But somewhere between Vietnam and Iraq, military planners confused “future” with “futuristic.” They...

October 4, 2007 |

COIN Is Not Small Change


General David Petraeus helped write COIN.
General David Petraeus helped write COIN.
It’s the Pentagon’s job to prepare for wars of the future. But somewhere between Vietnam and Iraq, military planners confused “future” with “futuristic.” They convinced themselves that combat in the 21st Century would resemble computer games. Satellites would provide intelligence. “Smart bombs” would do much of the killing. The enemy, overcome by “shock and awe,” would lose his will to fight.