Thu, 15 Oct 2026
Inside a bunker, a pilot operates a first-person-view drone, unable to see the aircraft directly. A navigator plots a grid and helps search a degraded video feed. Somewhere in the […]
A specter looms over the US Army: the threat of positional warfare. For four years, we have watched with growing concern as the Ukraine conflict—our clearest lens into future interstate […]
Russian occupying forces have long used highways like the M14 to drive to Crimea. Trucks flowed along the highway, beyond the reach of the drones that made movement near the […]
In this episode, Colonel Mike Rosol joins MWI’s Charlie Faint in the West Point Class of 1974 Recording Studio to reflect on a career spanning armored warfare, multiple deployments to […]
In mid-September, the commander of Ukraine’s 3rd Army Corps confirmed that his unit was in the midst of a major offensive in Donetsk Oblast: Operation Vivaldi. It was the first […]
A faraway counterinsurgency fight. Trying terrain. Elusive intelligence. Self-deceiving higher headquarters. And those caught in the middle of it all. These are the ingredients of what one venerable critic called […]
For twenty months, Russia’s 20th and 25th Combined Arms Armies ground toward Lyman, a small city in eastern Ukraine that sits on a critical road and railway juncture. By seizing […]
The increasing use of drones on the modern battlefield has sparked a great debate about their impact on the ever-changing character of warfare. Whether framed as evolutionary drivers of that […]
Interwar periods are inherently challenging for militaries, who must balance lessons from previous wars with emergent technologies and tactics being tested in observable wars. Much of future warfighting is being […]
The US Army currently has fifteen Patriot battalions and eight THAAD batteries—finite resources that are badly needed across the service’s global operational footprint. EUCOM needs them to deter an ever-encroaching […]
Why has Russia’s senior military leadership been so bad at their jobs? The question is not an idle one, even if it is somewhat boldly stated. General Staff decision-makers and […]
A small drone returns from a mission, its frame cracked and its motor damaged, but its camera, radio, and battery still working. Traditional Army maintenance logic offers a familiar sequence: […]
For the past several years, scholars and practitioners have vigorously debated the utility of armored formations on an increasingly lethal modern battlefield characterized by a proliferation of sensors, precision long-range […]
In the summer of 2023, during Ukraine’s southern counteroffensive, I watched two soldiers working under a camouflage net behind a battered school in Zaporizhzhia carry out in ninety seconds a […]
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 […]
The battlefield in Ukraine is becoming increasingly transparent, increasingly lethal, and increasingly difficult to command. Unmanned aircraft systems watch movement far beyond the forward line. First-person-view drones turn fleeting observation […]
If you follow war in any way, you will see innumerable daily articles, podcasts, and news stories about the prevalence of drones in Ukraine. Pentagon budget requests reference it. So […]
