Stephen Silver is a journalist, essayist, and film critic, who is also a contributor to Philly Voice, Philadelphia Weekly, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Living Life Fearless, Backstage magazine, Broad Street Review, and Splice Today. The co-founder of the Philadelphia Film Critics Circle, Stephen lives in suburban Philadelphia with his wife and two sons. Follow him on Twitter at @StephenSilver.
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The Iron Beam (officially Or Eitan or "Eitan's Light") represents the world’s first operational high-energy laser weapon system. Following its formal delivery to the...
Summary and Key Points: Stephen Silver, a veteran national security contributor, evaluates the Type 003 Fujian, China’s first carrier equipped with an Electromagnetic Aircraft...
Summary and Key Points: USS Gerald R. Ford supercarrier is operating in the Middle East during rising U.S.-Iran tensions, with its deployment extended twice...
Summary and Key Points: South Carolina Judge Forces Confederate Flag Down From 120-Foot Pole A Spartanburg County fight over a 120-foot Confederate battle flagpole...
Summary and Key Points: The F-16XL remains one of American aviation’s great “what-ifs”—a stretched F-16 with a distinctive cranked-arrow wing built as a low-risk,...
Synopsis: The radical proposal to transform Iowa-class battleships into “battlecarriers” remains one of the most provocative “what-if” designs in naval history. -Phase II of...