Steve Balestrieri is a National Security Columnist. He served as a US Army Special Forces NCO and Warrant Officer. In addition to writing on defense, he covers the NFL for PatsFans.com and is a member of the Pro Football Writers of America (PFWA). His work was regularly featured in many military publications.
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
On September 26, 1983, Soviet Lieutenant Colonel Stanislav Petrov was on the midnight shift at the Serpukhov-15 command center when his early warning satellite...
China’s missile arsenal now reaches every U.S. base in the Pacific. The DF-26, dubbed the Guam-Killer by U.S. analysts, is a conventionally armed intermediate-range...
The U.S. government has declassified and released more than 160 UFO files dating back to the 1947 Roswell incident, including military and NASA documentation....
Nearly 40 percent of the U.S. Navy’s 49 attack submarines are sitting in port awaiting repairs, the result of dry-dock shortages, workforce gaps, and...
A new Government Accountability Office report found that 74 percent of U.S. Air Force aircraft missed their depot maintenance completion deadlines, up from 31...