Harry J. Kazianis (@GrecianFormula) is Editor-in-Chief of National Security Journal, where he leads coverage of military hardware, defense policy, and great-power competition with China and Russia. He previously served as Senior Director of National Security Affairs at the Center for the National Interest — the Washington, DC foreign-policy think tank founded by President Richard Nixon — and has held senior editorial roles running The National Interest and The Diplomat.
A national-security analyst with more than a decade of experience, Kazianis has made over 1,000 television appearances across major U.S. and international news networks and is an author and editor of books on defense and foreign policy. His writing and commentary have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, on CNN and Fox News, and across many other outlets worldwide. He holds a master's degree in international affairs from Harvard University and has held research positions at CSIS, the Heritage Foundation, and the University of Nottingham.
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Article Summary – The F-35 program’s lifetime cost is now projected at roughly $2 trillion when you add acquisition and decades of sustainment. -That...
Article Summary: The Seawolf-Class Was a Masterpiece. Washington Treated It Like a Luxury -The Seawolf-class was supposed to be the U.S. Navy’s apex hunter-killer...
Article Summary – The Kirov-class was born to hunt NATO carriers and shield Soviet submarines, using nuclear power, long-range missiles, and deep air-defense magazines...
Article Summary – In 2005, Swedish AIP submarine HMS Gotland stunned the U.S. Navy by repeatedly “killing” carrier USS Ronald Reagan in exercises, exposing...
Key Points and Summary – For a decade, the MiG-25 Foxbat haunted Western imagination as a titanium Mach-3 super fighter that could outclass anything...
Article Summary – Titanium promised the Soviets deeper-diving, faster, low-magnetic submarines like Alfa and Sierra, but it came with brutal industrial, cost, and sustainment...