Russian occupying forces have long used highways like the M14 to drive to Crimea. Trucks flowed along the highway, beyond the ...

Thirty live video feeds fill an operator’s Vezha dashboard. More are available, but these are the thirty selected for the current fight. The operator has filtered the larger pool by unit and geography ...

Every major war reshapes how future wars are fought. Victory and defeat matter, but they are rarely a conflict’s only legacy. Wars expose weaknesses that peacetime exercises fail to reveal, challenge ...

The B-21 Raider, paired with the F-47 and other current and future joint and coalition forces, is specifically suited to countering adversaries that field antiaccess and area-denial capabilities. As ...

A force that cannot fly, fight, and defeat drones at the squad level is preparing for the last war. But proficiency alone is not enough. The decisive advantage now belongs to the force that can also ...

The most important battlefield in the Iran War was not inside Iran at all. The United States and its partners demonstrated that they could strike Iranian targets. Iran demonstrated that it could ...

The contemporary discourse on drone-driven warfare rarely suggests the end of maneuver, but it highlights an increasingly perilous gap between tactical movement and force survivability in a ...

Russia’s battlefield endurance in Ukraine is determined not by the size of Soviet‑era stockpiles but by a temporary industrial window—a period when production plus imports outpaces daily shell ...

Chemicals like sulfuric acid sit upstream of copper extraction, battery-material processing, and semiconductor fabrication, meaning they can determine whether the US military can maintain industrial ...

In the 1950s, American strategists warned of a bomber gap. By the end of that decade, the fear had shifted to a missile gap. In both cases, the perception of a gap drove enormous defense investments ...

For the better part of a century, the grand strategy of the United States has been predicated on a deeply entrenched, almost subconscious mental model: the belief that political order is the natural, ...

Editor’s note: Welcome to another installment of our War Books series! Each installment typically presents a themed list of books by an expert contributor. This edition departs from that model and ...