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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 modern battlefield is becoming more lethal and fast-moving, while the proliferation of sensors makes concealment increasingly difficult. Persistent sensing, precision-strike weapons, autonomous systems, and increasingly capable enemy artificial intelligence […]
What if a security commitment designed to preserve freedom of action ends up taking that freedom away? That possibility sits at the edge of the American debate over Taiwan. The […]
In this episode of The Spear, host Charlie Faint sits down with the command team of the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment, Colonel Sean Karrels and Command Sergeant Major Julio […]
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: […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Across contemporary battlefields, inexpensive drones increasingly operate as components of distributed systems that combine software processing, computing hardware, and tactical networks to accelerate AI-enabled detection, analysis, and engagement. These technologies […]
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 […]
An autonomous weapon does not possess legal authority. Commanders and operators do. But every autonomous weapon still has an engineering permission state: the set of actions its software is allowed […]
