By Jonathan Walberg
When the United States and Israel struck Iran’s nuclear facilities in June last year, the operation caught many observers off guard...
By Anders McD Sookermany and Thomas Slensvik
In recent years, as AI has begun to enter military planning and operational design, a persistent unease has surfaced among...
By Jonathan Walberg
When the United States and Israel struck Iran’s nuclear facilities in June last year, the operation caught many observers off guard...
By Jonathan Walberg
When the United States and Israel struck Iran’s nuclear facilities in June last year, the operation caught many observers off guard...
by Scott Pace and Yosuke Kaneko
As humanity’s ambitions extend beyond Earth—evidenced by NASA’s Artemis program and burgeoning commercial lunar and Martian ventures—the limitations of...
By Anders McD Sookermany and Thomas Slensvik
In recent years, as AI has begun to enter military planning and operational design, a persistent unease has surfaced among...
Optical computing has been "the next big thing" now for decades. This enabling technology holds so much potential because it offers huge advances in data...
By Dylan Taylor
As the nascent space sector takes off, commercialization and space tourism are expected to grow increasingly prominent. To prepare for long-term spaceflight,...
Google has discarded its self-imposed ban on using AI in weapons, a step that simultaneously drew praise and criticism, marked a new entrant in a hot...
By Linus Höller
The German military continued its rearmament but still suffered from serious personnel shortages last year, a report presented to the country’s parliament on Tuesday showed. The paper...
Historically, military forces favored battles in open terrain, as the confines of urban terrain, forests, or narrow mountain passages are the defender’s forte. Therefore,...
By Bart Hendrickx
Part 1 summarized recent Russian academic literature on the effects of high-altitude nuclear explosions. The bulk of the research in this field seems...
By John Persinos
The aviation industry stands on the cusp of a technological revolution fueled by the introduction of super-fast microchips. These advanced semiconductors are...
By Bart Hendrickx
In February, White House officials asserted that Russia is developing a space-based anti-satellite system that would violate the 1967 Outer Space Treaty,...
By Lauren C. Williams
Virtually all of the Army’s weapons are affected by delayed or back-ordered parts—and mismatched computer systems are largely to blame. And...
By James Clay Moltz*
China’s recent advances in cislunar space have spurred US fears. As a report by an influential defense think tank argues, “The contest over...
The US Department of Defense’s annual report on Chinese military and security developments.
In this post and podcast, we dissect the report, which isn’t just...
