Eighty years after total war transformed the continent, European countries are making big bets on new instruments of annihilation.

The Department of War has announced a new AI platform it is developing in partnership with Google.

The future of warfare is being shaped less by raw firepower and more by how systems connect and share information. This breakdown explores how emerging technologies are linking soldiers, aircraft, ...

Frontline areas in Ukraine resemble the Battle of the Somme, if it were a deadly laser-tag game from hell. All the accoutrements of twentieth-century war are there, just with a modern twist. The tanks ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth promised to showcase the “future of American warfare” with a sleek new artificial intelligence platform, only to watch the debut sputter in real time. Instead of ...

Military historians, professionals, and strategists attributed U.S. military victories in World Wars I and II to two basic points: 1) The U.S. possessed deeper industrial capacity to support the war, ...

In a recent Foreign Affairs article, Jacquelyn Schneider and Julia Macdonald argue, based on their research interviewing U.S. ground troops, that troops prefer close air support from inhabited ...

On one hand, the current administration has been very publicly struggling with the ethics of drone warfare and just agreed to supply Congress' intelligence committees with classified legal advice ...

A new reality of modern warfare is on full display. The recent Taipei Aerospace and Defense Technology Exhibition (TADTE 2025) and DSEI 2025 in London have revealed a dramatic shift in global defense ...

This chapter examines cooperation between China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea. 1 It asks several questions: How has cooperation evolved between China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, and other actors, ...

GENERATIONS OF WRITERS have described the horrors and exhilaration of war—from the ever-present fear to the intense camaraderie that binds fellow warriors. But for those of us who watched the Gulf War ...