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

Earlier this year, deep in an expansive training area, soldiers loaded an autonomous ground... The articles and other content which appear on the Modern War Institute website are unofficial ...

The literature on military revolutions and revolutions in military affairs has proliferated since historian Michael Roberts coined the former term in 1956. Among the most clear and compelling examples ...

Combat in urban areas is the most destructive type of warfare imaginable. Densely populated terrain, complex systems of systems that support human life, military weapons not optimized to these ...

“Sir, what do you want us to do about the tunnel?” one of my squad leaders asked. We were conducting platoon attacks at the massive Range 220 complex at the Marine Air Ground Combat Center in ...

Imagine a society where the cornerstone of national defense—its military—faces eroding confidence from the very citizens it serves. This crisis is not just a theoretical threat, but a reality ...

In 1987, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev called for the Arctic to be a “zone of peace.” In a speech declaring that the region would remain separate from the confrontations and conflicts of the middle ...

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 ...

As the Taliban consolidates control in Kabul, the stunning fall of the Afghan government has prompted a torrent of questions about what went wrong. So far, much of this discussion has focused on the ...

At 8:50 pm on August 6, 1990, the Joint Chiefs of Staff issued a deployment order. It was the first formal move in what would three days later be officially named Operation Desert Shield. The United ...

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 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 ...