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In urban warfare, the enemy, terrain, population, and tactical problem can change faster than a military’s formal lessons-learned process. Armies cannot wait until a campaign ends to study what happened. […]
Ukraine’s military has changed substantially since Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022. Will its next evolution be shaped by traditionalists or technologists?
On August 14, Han Kuang 42, the field phase of the latest edition of Taiwan’s largest annual wargame, drew to a close. For many military hardware enthusiasts, the sight of […]
Welcome back to Five Questions for a General, a production of the Modern War Institute at West Point. This series features specially selected cadet hosts who are given an incredible professional development […]
Disasters are more frequent, more severe, and more costly. Pressure is mounting on emergency managers and the organizations that support them. Senior policy researcher Jessica Jensen discusses how artificial intelligence could help carry some of that burden.
It is 2027. China has spent three years repositioning forces under cover of maritime exercises and coast guard operations. In October, Beijing declares an expanded air defense identification zone covering […]
Welcome to the MWI Book Club, a podcast based on the idea that a military that reads books is a military that wins wars. Join cohosts John Amble and Theo Lipsky for […]
Millions of U.S. adults use Amanita muscaria mushrooms. But these distinctive fungi aren’t like other psychoactive mushrooms. What do consumers and policymakers need to know about them?
With mirror life, scientists have given world leaders both the foresight and the time to address the danger. What's needed isn't alarm but action to ensure that mirror life remains just a footnote in human history—and not its final chapter.
Social movements in North Africa increasingly focus on environmental concerns and the impact of climate change. Europeans must ensure their cooperation with governments in the region does not end up adding to activists’ grievances
Magdalena Andersson of the Social Democrats is the favourite to become Sweden’s next prime minister, but only after months of hard coalition bargaining. Who she governs with would shape how far her foreign policy shifts
Deterrence in the Pacific The Class of 2006 War Studies Conference is the culminating event of a yearlong MWI Fellowship bringing together both MWI Fellows and subject matter experts to […]
Sign up here to receive Bellingcat’s biggest investigations by email as soon as they are published. On a June night in 1996, in a basement apartment in Boston’s Chinatown, a killer put a pistol to the back of a young man’s head and pulled the trigger. The victim’s body was wrapped in quilts, lowered into the trunk of […] The post Investigating a Murder: Public Records Uncover New Clues in Chinatown Cold Case appeared first on bellingcat .
Germany’s political centre is crumbling—but its leaders appear unable to get ahead of the impending crisis
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 […]
Now, when OpenAI's system predicts that an account belongs to someone under 18, teen protections are automatically applied without waiting for a parent to activate them. But even ambitious efforts can fall short, and the public needs a way to discover when they do.
At July’s NATO summit in Ankara, European leaders accepted that they must carry more of their own defence. Turning that promise into money means winning a fight over the EU’s next seven-year budget, against coalitions that have defended farm and cohesion spending for decades
As an Army, we check our teeth annually, but we do not check our heads with the same emphasis. With all due respect to our dental professionals, you never see […]
In this episode, Colonel Chaveso “Chevy” Cook sits down with MWI’s Charlie Faint to recount a career that took him from a South Carolina JROTC classroom to West Point and […]
On March 5, 2022—four days before South Korea held what would become its closest presidential election in history—North Korea fired a suspected ballistic missile eastward into the sea. It was […]
