As combat drones continue to move from the laboratory to the battlefield, the US Navy is exploring how to use a digitally simulated F-35 Lightning II aircraft to develop new tactics to go with the new ...

The moment a pilot hears a missile warning tone in their headset, the fight may already be over. An enemy aircraft they’ve ...

Many of the tactics used by modern militaries were forged long before today’s conflicts ever began. During the Cold War, firearms were designed with an eye toward deterrence and large-scale war, but ...

In the spring of 2025, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed a decree that no modern military had attempted before: the creation of an entirely separate branch of the armed forces dedicated ...

In 2022, Scott Sweetow wrote, “Of Roadside Bombs and Drones: Putin’s Looming Insurgency Problem,” where he argued Ukraine’s fight against Russia would rely on a combination of conventional and ...

Strategy is the focus of most of the modern military historians. Their driving assumption is that strategy is the ‘dog’ and tactics is the ‘tail.’ In other words, strategy shapes the course and ...

When Russia launched its full-scale invasion, New Zealand quickly sent military personnel halfway across the globe to help prepare Ukrainian recruits for the front lines. For the past few years, this ...

Some of the most important shifts in military history didn’t come from strategy rooms, instead they came from the machines rolling onto the battlefield. Certain combat vehicles proved so effective, so ...