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“drones”
The Case for Treating Drones as Ammunition
Zachary Griffiths
and
Jeff Ivas
Ghosts of the Road: What the Failed War on IEDs Means for Drones
Andrew Tenbusch
and
Trevor Phillips-Levine
How Europe Can Find Cost-Effective Measures to Counter Russian Drones
Joseph Wehmeyer
How the Army Wants to Counter Drones
Alex Miller
and
Ryan Evans
How Often Overlooked Non-State Actors Are Using Drones
Richard Horsey
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R. Evan Ellis
,
Tricia Bacon
, and
Nathaniel Powell
Swarms are For Agents, Not Just Drones
Ben Van Roo
Russian Drones Breach Polish Airspace
Grace Parcover
Drones on the Frontlines: How the Marine Corps Is Learning and Adapting
Joseph Wehmeyer
Drones Aren’t Swarming Yet — But They Could
Emma Bates
and
S. Ryan Quick
How Drones Affect the Mind of the Warfighter
Joseph Wehmeyer
Drones, Discord, and the Shifting Front in Ukraine
Michael Kofman
and
Ryan Evans
It’s Time to Think About (and Fear) Drones and Psychological Operations
J.D. Maddox
Lessons Learned and a Big Play on Drones from Latvia
Ryan Evans
and
Uģis Norītis
When FPV Drones Fall Short
Abigail Taylor
I Fought in Ukraine and Here’s Why FPV Drones Kind of Suck
Jakub Jajcay
Are Drones Bringing the Next Military Revolution?
Abigail Taylor
Military Revolutions from the Spanish Tercio to First-Person View Drones
Antonio Salinas
and
Jason P. LeVay
Making Sure that the U.S. Military Has the Drones It Needs
Joseph Wehmeyer
Print, Crash, and Reprint: How the Air Force Should Rethink Small Drones
Dustin Thomas
,
Jordan Atkins
, and
Peter Dyrud
The Rising Threat of Weaponized Drones
Abigail Taylor
Beyond TikTok — The National Security Risks of Chinese Agricultural Drones
Claris Diaz
and
Emilian Kavalski
Drones, AI, and the Changing Nature of Warfare
Stacie Pettyjohn
and
Marshall Kosloff
Russia’s Approach to AI, Drones, and Automation
Joseph Wehmeyer
Mike Kofman and Rob Lee on Drones in Ukraine
Michael Kofman
,
Rob Lee
, and
Ryan Evans
A Close Look at Drones in the Russo-Ukrainian War, Part 2
Erin O'Brien
A Close Look at Drones in the Russo-Ukrainian War, Part 1
Erin O'Brien
Drones and the Future of Warfare
Erin O'Brien
Drones, the Air Littoral, and the Looming Irrelevance of the U.S. Air Force
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
Drones are Transforming the Battlefield in Ukraine But in an Evolutionary Fashion
Stacie L. Pettyjohn
Drones and Desensitizing Death
Aaron Stein
Defending Against Suicide Drones
Aaron Stein
Thinking Big with Small Drones: An Allied Approach to Swarming
Tyler Jackson
How Doctrine and Delineation Can Help Defeat Drones
Nicholas Paul Pacheco
Precise and Popular: Why People in Northwest Pakistan Support Drones
Neha Ansari
Getting Drones Ready for Conventional War
Joe Ritter
The Dubious Prospects for Cargo-Delivery Drones in Ukraine
Mark Jacobsen
Of Roadside Bombs and Drones: Putin’s Looming Insurgency Problem
Scott Sweetow
From Ankara With Implications: Turkish Drones and Alliance Entrapment
Aaron Stein
Mexican Cartels Are Embracing Aerial Drones and They’re Spreading
Robert J. Bunker
and
John P. Sullivan
Red Sea Drones: How to Counter Houthi Maritime Tactics
Håvard Haugstvedt
Hellfires Wanted: It’s Time to Start Tasking Armed Drones as Combat Aircraft
Joe Ritter
Say Hello to Turkey’s Little Friend: How Drones Help Level the Playing Field
Aaron Stein
How the Army Out-Innovated the Islamic State’s Drones
Kyle Brown
,
Jonathan Askonas
, and
T.S. Allen
Drones and the Armenia-Azerbaijan Conflict
Tre Hester
Terror and Technology From Dynamite to Drones
T. X. Hammes
Drones, Deniability, and Disinformation: Warfare in Libya and the New International Disorder
Wolfram Lacher
Terrorist Groups, Artificial Intelligence, and Killer Drones
Jacob Ware
Drones of Mass Destruction: Drone Swarms and the Future of Nuclear, Chemical, and Biological Weapons
Zachary Kallenborn
and
Philipp C. Bleek
Game of Drones: What Experimental Wargames Reveal About Drones and Escalation
Erik Lin-Greenberg
An Air Force ‘Way of Swarm’: Using Wargaming and Artificial Intelligence to Train Drones
Clayton Schuety
and
Lucas Will
Fuzzy Thinking about Drones
Jon Askonas
and
Colby Howard
The French Turn to Armed Drones
Jean-Baptiste Jeangène Vilmer
In Over Their Heads: U.S. Ground Forces are Dangerously Unprepared for Enemy Drones
Jonathan Gillis
My Droneski Just Ate Your Ethics
Joseph Brecher
,
Heath Niemi
, and
Andrew Hill
Drones and the Future of Aerial Combined Arms
Jules Hurst
Can Turkey and the United States Come Together on Drones?
Aaron Stein
Game of Drones: Reviewing “Eye in the Sky”
M.L.R. Smith
Civilian Casualties, Drones, Airstrikes and the Perils of Policy
Charles Dunlap
General Lee’s Secret Plan to Use Drones at Gettysburg Revealed
WOTR Staff
Do Drones Have a Future?
Paul Scharre
The Trouble with Turkey’s Drones
Aaron Stein
U.S. Drones are from Mars, Euro Drones are from Venus
Ulrike Franke
PODCAST: Counter-Terrorism, Drones, Syria, & More
William McCants
,
JM Berger
, and
Clint Watts
Drones Don’t Change a Thing
Ryan Youra
Can You Spare a Drone? (Drones Downtown in Damascus???)
Frank Hoffman
Chasing True AI Autonomy: From Legacy Mindsets to Battlefield Dominance
Vitaliy Goncharuk
The Additive Manufacturing Mirage in Defense
John Borrego
We Might Regret Golden Dome’s Greatest Ambition
Andrew Facini
and
Mallory Stewart
Black Sea Regional Outlook for 2026
Yevgeniya Gaber
,
Alper Coşkun
,
Natia Gamkrelidze
,
Maia Otarashvili
, and
Iulia-Sabina Joja
After the Constellation-Class: Lessons of the Navy’s Latest Shipbuilding Debacle
Austin Gray
Why Many Underestimated Russia’s Invasion Risk
Aybars Tuncdogan
The U.S.-Saudi Reconfiguration Is Real and It No Longer Depends on Israel
H. A. Hellyer
Confrontations and Coalitions
WOTR Staff
Acquisition Reform vs. Congress: Who Will Win?
Matt Vallone
America First, Europe Fourth
Leonard A. Schuette
Europe’s New Lines of Defense Are Not Maginot 2.0
Sam Rosenberg
When Defense Becomes Destruction: Austria-Hungary’s Mistake and Ukraine’s Risk
Franz-Stefan Gady
Washington’s Risky Bet on Pakistan and the F-16
Sajjan M. Gohel
Russia/Ukraine Only Membership Tier
Ryan Evans
A 15-Point Plan to Get to a Ukrainian-Russian Settlement
Ryan Evans
Chicken Versus Bumper Cars in Conflict Escalation
Joshua Tallis
Stove-Piped Systems Will Strangle Advanced AI in the Cradle
Todd Krokowski
How the United States Can Address Its Shortage of Missile Interceptors
Ankit Panda
,
Mackenzie Eaglen
, and
Tom Karako
The Hidden Cost of a Missile: Why the Headlines Get Cost Wrong
Erik Schuh
Replicator 3 Should Be the Sustainment Revolution
Nick Johnson
Are New Defense Companies Giving Away Sensitive Info Through Marketing?
Jake Chapman
Without a Standard for Autonomy, the U.S. Military Will Get Lost in the Fog of War
Randy Yamada
and
Tom Schaefer
Racing Against Time: Realizing a True Defense Industrial Enterprise
Gen. (ret.) CQ Brown, Jr.
Attack Helicopters Must Hunt the Hunters
Stephen Olguin
Will Israel’s Algorithmic Counter-Insurgency Proliferate to the West?
Muhanad Seloom
The Global Reach of the War in Ukraine
Sergey Radchenko
,
Jonathan Corrado
,
Hanna Notte
,
Eric Watkins
, and
Christopher Hernandez-Roy
Is Europe Too Soft to Fight?
Florence Gaub
and
Roderick Parkes
Colombia Is Struggling to Keep Up With A Criminal Air Force
Alfonso Camacho-Martinez
No Cause for Alarm: The Case for a Measured Response to Russian Air Incursions
Jennifer Kavanagh
Realignments, Restrictions, and Risks
WOTR Staff
Does Russian Deterrence Begin in Poland?
Alexander Lanoszka
and
Michael A. Hunzeker
The 12 Days of War That Didn’t Ignite the Middle East or the World
Ali Fathollah-Nejad
Beyond Decision Superiority: The Role of Intelligence in Innovation & Adaptation
Michael Borja
Sanctions, Speeches, and Showmanship
WOTR Staff
NATO’s Air Defense Dilemma
Robert Hamilton
Crafting a Successful U.S. Force Posture Abroad
David Ochmanek
and
Andrew Hoehn
Washington’s Ironclad Commitments Are Rusting in the Indo-Pacific
Gregory H. Winger
,
Miguel Alberto Gomez
, and
Lauren Sukin
Lots of Royal Soft Power but Any Concrete Outcomes?
Andrew Mumford
,
Matthew Savill
,
Emma Salisbury
,
Jacob Parakilas
, and
Hillary Briffa
Fort Drum Shows How States Can Push Back on China’s Maritime Aggression
Ron J. Lienhardt
Golden Dome is a Trillion Dollar Gambit
Todd Harrison
New Agreements Among Adversaries and Allies
WOTR Staff
Don’t Make a Submarine-Launched Cruise Missile a Priority
John Maurer
Ghost Fleet, Ten Years Later: An Interview with P.W. Singer and August Cole
Peter W. Singer
and
August Cole
Russia Is Shrewdly Playing the Long Game in Africa
Hanna Notte
How Extremists Leverage Social Media to Succeed
Brian McQuinn
Think Medium: The Case for “Minilateralism” to Boost Naval Shipbuilding
Nicolas Jouan
The Future of Criminal Drone Use in Latin America
Henry Ziemer
Denial Won’t Do: Europe Needs a Punishment-Based Conventional Counterstrike Strategy
Fabian Hoffmann
The Geopolitics of Drone Exports
Pinar Tank
,
Matthew P. Funaiole
,
Stacie Pettyjohn
, and
Nir Reuven
The Pentagon’s Software Revolution and Its Testing Dilemma
Douglas C. Schmidt
and
Nickolas H. Guertin
Faster Wars, Smarter Minds: Driving the Army’s Quiet Cognitive Revolution
Lt. Gen. Milford Beagle Jr.
Military Gaming to Stay Ahead, But Not the Kind You Think
Joseph L. Votel
These Materials Could Cripple America’s Defense Industrial Base
Macdonald Amoah
,
Morgan Bazilian
,
Clarkson Kamurai
, and
Jahara Matisek
Unintended Recipients: The Dangers of Loose Weapons
Kerry Chávez
and
Ori Swed
Spectacular Drone Strikes and the Future Sanctuary of the U.S. Homeland
Michael Poznansky
and
Erik Sand
A Skeptic’s View of the Hype Machine and Business Model of Neo-Defense Tech
Jonathan Panter
How Reservists Can Jumpstart Military Software Development
Will McGee
,
Collin Chew
, and
Drew Hutcheon
Golden Dome’s Gamble: Can Industry Move Fast Enough to Matter?
John Borrego
Emerging Terrorist Threats and Trends
Tricia Bacon
,
Nathaniel Powell
,
Aaron Y. Zelin
,
Amira Jadoon
, and
Bruce Hoffman
Swap Around and Find Out: The New Rules of International Digital Economic Warfare
Adam Zarazinski
and
Bruno Faviero
Investing in Ukraine’s Defense Edge: A Conversation with Perry Boyle
Perry Boyle
What Will Be Russia’s Response to NATO Expansion After the War Ends?
Nicholas Lokker
and
Heli Hautala
Building Trust in Military AI Starts with Opening the Black Box
Roy Lindelauf
and
Herwin Meerveld
Ukraine Isn’t the Model for Winning the Innovation War
Vitaliy Goncharuk
The Marine Corps Americans Want Can’t Be Derailed by a Fake Crisis
Ryan Evans
Is Warfare Becoming More Performative?
Jordan Spector
The Indo-Pacific Chooses Options, Not Sides
Vu Lam
Time to Supercharge Europe’s Innovation Ecosystem
Klaus Hommels
and
Fiona Murray
Allied Arsenal: Building Strength Through Shared Production
Trevor Phillips-Levine
and
Andrew Tenbusch
North Korea’s Deadly Drone Bonanza Is Coming to a Peninsula Near You
Jonathan Corrado
,
Chelsie Alexandre
, and
Anton Ponomarenko
Steel in the Storm: Recent Wars as Guides for Armor Transformation
Lt. Gen. Kevin D. Admiral
and
Nicholas Drake
Factories First: Winning the Drone War Before It Starts
Martin C. Feldmann
and
Gene Keselman
South Korea’s New Naval Base Throws a Jab, But Should Train for a Haymaker
Joshua NamTae Park
Lessons Observed from the War Between Israel and Iran
Bilal Y. Saab
and
Darren D. White
The State of Russian Influence in the Middle East
Anna Borshchevskaya
,
Yevgeniya Gaber
,
Nicole Grajewski
,
Giorgio Cafiero
, and
Daniel Rakov
Consequences Unfold
WOTR Staff
How Ukraine is Adapting, Enduring, and Striking Back
Michael Kofman
and
Ryan Evans
Taking Stock of the Resistance in Myanmar
Ye Myo Hein
and
Lucas Myers
Marine Force Design Is Four Decades in the Making
Ryan Pallas
A Strait Comparison: Lessons from the Dardanelles for a Strait of Hormuz Closure
Jonathan Schroden
Why Recent Surprise Attacks Against Russia and Iran Should Worry Taiwan
Michael A. Hunzeker
and
Yuster Yu
The 2025 War on the Rocks Summer Fiction Reading List
WOTR Staff
Marching to Different Drums: The Army’s Birthday Parade as Seen from China
J. William DeMarco
We Need a Marine Corps, Part III: A Corps Recentered
Ben Connable
The Meaning of Drone-Enabled Infantry Striking Beyond Line of Sight
Antonio Salinas
,
Mark Askew
, and
Jason P. LeVay
We Need a Marine Corps, Part II: A Corps Confounded
Ben Connable
Revisiting the Implications of Iran’s Long-Range Weapons Capabilities
Jim Lamson
Flying, But Not Fused: Closing the Drone Gap in the Marine Corps
Lorenz Vargas
Steps Toward Golden Dome
Kari A. Bingen
,
Stephanie Stapleton
,
Michael O’Hanlon
, and
Shaan Shaikh
Russian and Ukrainian Advantages in Drone Warfare
Dominika Kunertova
,
Stacie Pettyjohn
,
Erik Lin-Greenberg
, and
Caitlin Lee
Get Ready for the New Rules of War in the Indo-Pacific
James Kraska
and
Gavin Logan
A Guide to Refactoring the Defense-Industrial Base
Shands Pickett
and
Zach Beecher
Australian-Indian Naval Cooperation in the Indian Ocean
Darshana M. Baruah
Giants and the Myth of America’s New Defense Consolidation
Dustin Walker
How China Could Counter U.S. Intervention in War Over Taiwan
Joel Wuthnow
Russia Can Afford to Take a Beating in Ukraine
Collin Meisel
and
Mathew Burrows
Operation Sindoor and the Evolution of India’s Military Strategy Against Pakistan
Arzan Tarapore
Red Lines and Reckonings
WOTR Staff
Military AI: Angel of our Better Nature or Tool of Control?
Emelia Probasco
and
Minji Jang
The Army’s Upcoming Transformation, with Secretary Driscoll and Gen. George
Secretary of the Army Daniel Driscoll
,
Gen. Randy George
, and
Ryan Evans
Modernization as Readiness in the U.S. Marine Corps
Keenan Chirhart
and
Scott Humr
Realizing America’s Drone Revolution
Nathan Ecelbarger
The Middle East’s AI Warfare Laboratory
Frederic Wehrey
and
Andrew Bonney
Modernizing Military Decision-Making: Transforming European Command
Bryan Quinn
,
Bobby Sickler
, and
David Wiltse
Rewind and Reconnoiter: Getting to Critical Mass in the Iran Nuclear Deal
Nicholas Miller
Spectrum Supremacy: Reclaiming America’s Edge in a Contested Domain
Roslyn Layton
The Department of Defense’s Breakthrough Nuclear Moment Risks Slipping Away
Will Rogers
Thinking Through Deception on the Electromagnetic Spectrum
Michael Posey
and
David Zesinger
Putin’s Spies for Hire: What the U.K.’s Biggest Espionage Trial Revealed about Kremlin Tactics in Wartime Europe
Daniela Richterova
Greenland’s Military Possibilities for the United States
Aaron Brady
The Adversarial: Moves Toward Peace or Toward War?
WOTR Staff
How the Biden Administration Won Tactically but Failed Strategically in the Red Sea
Joshua Tallis
Putting the Screws on the Partnership Between North Korea and Russia
Choong-Koo Lee
In Brief: What Lessons Is North Korea’s Military Taking from the Russo-Ukrainian War?
Jonathan Corrado
,
Naoko Aoki
,
Markus Garlauskas
, and
Jenny Town
How the Trump Administration Can Limit China’s Arms Exports
Grant Rumley
Europe, Deterrence, and Long-Range Strike
Lotje Boswinkel
Deciphering French Strategy in the Indo-Pacific
Léonie Allard
The U.S. Army, Artificial Intelligence, and Mission Command
Benjamin Jensen
and
Maj. Gen. Jake S. Kwon
Rewind and Reconnoiter: The Navy Should Develop Narco-Submarines
Collin Fox
,
Walker D. Mills
, and
Dylan “Joose” Phillips-Levine
Will Israel and the United States Diverge on Iran?
Michael Allen
Is Cyber Revolutionary or Barely Relevant in Modern Warfare?
Jason Healey
The Deep Strike Dodge: Firepower and Manpower in Ukraine’s War
Gil Barndollar
What Makes Air Force Reconnaissance “Special”?
John Long
and
Leandros Fugate
A Threshold Moment in Terrorist Trends and Targeting?
Bruce Hoffman
,
David Brannan
, and
Jacob Ware
America’s Long-Range Retaliation
Ross Hobbs
Armed Neutrality for Ukraine Is NATO’s Least Poor Option
Jennifer Kavanagh
and
Christopher McCallion
Russia’s War in Ukraine Has Brought Iran and Belarus Closer Together
Jack Roush
Ukraine’s Daunting Choice: Trading Its Land and People for Future Security
Ralph Clem
,
Erik Herron
,
Timothy Hoheneder
, and
Khrystyna Pelchar
How to Get the Most Out of the U.S.-Indian Defense Partnership
Sameer Lalwani
and
Vikram J. Singh
How Can We Measure if Defense Innovation Works?
Casey Perley
In Brief: Trump Executive Orders and What They Mean for National Security
Ankit Panda
,
Emma Ashford
,
Whitney McNamara
, and
Melanie Marlowe
Trump Has a Rare and Short Window to Solve the Iran Problem — Here’s How
Richard Nephew
and
Ariane Tabatabai
The Coming Wave of Wartime Drone Expertise
Walker D. Mills
,
Andrew Tenbusch
, and
Trevor Phillips-Levine
The Electricity Front of Russia’s War Against Ukraine
Theresa Sabonis-Helf
How Iran Lost Before It Lost: The Roll Back of Its Gray Zone Strategy
Farzin Zandi
Other Outlets For Your Writing
WOTR Staff
In Brief: How Key European States Will Approach Ukraine in 2025
Emma Salisbury
,
Gesine Weber
,
Roderick Parkes
, and
Monika Sus
Understanding Cyber Effects in Modern Warfare
Jason Healey
The Long Shadow of the Ladakh Crisis
Arzan Tarapore
Mending Fences: Strengthening Homeland Defense through Integrated Civil-Military Air Surveillance
Thane C. Clare
Rewind and Reconnoiter: When Will Guam Become a Priority?
Mark Montgomery
Exploring the Implications of Precise Mass
Christopher Preble
,
Zack Cooper
, and
Melanie Marlowe
Can Europe Fight for Taiwan?
Luis Simón
and
Toshi Yoshihara
The Mayhem of Russia’s “Research” Fleet
Nurlan Aliyev
Most Read War on the Rocks Articles of 2024
WOTR Staff
Stealth and Scale: Quality, Quantity, and Modern Military Power
Michael Horowitz
and
Joshua Schwartz
The Tech Investment Playbook for Victory
Brian MacCarthy
In Brief: A Thaw in Icy Relations Between India and China?
Akriti Vasudeva
,
Yun Sun
, and
Sameer Lalwani
Archipelago of Resistance: The Philippines Is Rising to Meet the China Threat, But It Has a Crucial Year Ahead
Haroro J. Ingram
62 Years After the ’62 War, Where Do China and India Go From Here?
Shanshan Mei
and
Dennis J. Blasko
America is Not Prepared for a Protracted War
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
Understanding the Syrian Civil War: A Guide From War on the Rocks
Abigail Taylor
The Patient Efforts Behind Hayat Tahrir al-Sham’s Success in Aleppo
Aaron Y. Zelin
The Adversarial
WOTR Staff
Moving Toward Defense as a Service
Jake Chapman
Technology, the Battlefield, and Beyond in Ukraine
Michael Kofman
and
Rob Lee
How to Fix a Broken Defense Department to Beat China and Russia
Steve Blank
China Is Off the Fence in Myanmar
Lucas Myers
The Adversarial: Maximum Pressure
WOTR Staff
Behind Iran’s Surging Military Budget
Clément Therme
In Brief: North Korea’s Critical Allies
Jenny Town
,
Thomas Shugart
, and
Maria Snegovaya
Can the Next President Change U.S. Foreign Policy?
Christopher Preble
,
Zack Cooper
, and
Melanie Marlowe
Next-Generation Decoys for the Marine Corps
Jorge Rivero
Escaping Russia’s Backyard: Armenia’s Strategic Defense Shift
Leonid Nersisyan
and
Sergei Melkonian
Power Broker — How Erdoğan Balances Serbs and Albanians
Vuk Vuksanovic
Russian Roulette on the Red Sea
Ari Heistein
and
Daniel Rakov
How to Sanction Sudan Without Creating a Failed State
Tim Liptrot
The Adversarial
WOTR Staff
Russians Do Break: Historical and Cultural Context for a Prospective Ukrainian Victory
Ben Connable
The Adversarial
WOTR Staff
In Brief: How Are Iranian Weapons Affecting the War in Ukraine?
Nicole Grajewski
,
Hamidreza Azizi
,
Nakissa Jahanbani
, and
Jim Lamson
The War on Terror Was Not a Morality Tale
Joseph Stieb
Russia Is on a Slow Path to Bankruptcy, But How Slow?
Pierre-Marie Meunier
The Adversarial
WOTR Staff
In Brief: Is the United States Preparing for War with China?
Gregory Poling
,
Kristen Gunness
,
Collin Meisel
, and
Eric Robinson
Windows, not Walls: Conceptualizing Air Superiority for Future Wars
Peter Porkka
and
Vilho Rantanen
The Adversarial
WOTR Staff
There Are No Magic Beans: Easy Options to Deter China Militarily Do Not Exist
Thomas Shugart
Strengthening the United Nations Command in Korea to Counter Authoritarian Collusion
Chan Mo Ku
and
Joo Young Kim
In Brief: The Ukrainian Operation Into Kursk
Oxana Shevel
,
Mark Galeotti
,
Olga Oliker
,
Michael A. Reynolds
,
Sam Bendett
, and
Vera Mironova
South Korea’s Growing Role as a Major Arms Exporter: Future Prospects in Latin America
Hoshik Nam
and
Wilder Alejandro Sánchez
Without Talent Agility, America May Lose
Jim Perkins
and
Mike McGinley
Three Visions for NATO Air and Missile Defense
Shaan Shaikh
The Adversarial
WOTR Staff
How to Make Military AI Governance More Robust
Brianna Rosen
Rewind and Reconnoiter: The Puzzle of Russian Behavior in Deir al-Zour with Kimberly Marten
Kimberly Marten
The Calm Before the Swarm: Drone Warfare at Sea in the Age of the Missile
Joshua Tallis
NATO After Next: From Interoperability to Fungibility
Benjamin Jensen
Rewind and Reconnoiter: The Future of Tactical Airlift is Here and it is Vertical with Walker D. Mills and Dylan “Joose” Phillips-Levine
Walker Mills
and
Dylan “Joose” Phillips-Levine
The Uncomfortable Reality of Russia and Iran’s New Defense Relationship
Hanna Notte
and
Jim Lamson
Countering Chinese Aggression in the South China Sea
Simon Weiss
and
Michael Beckley
The U.S. Department of Deterrence
Erik Gartzke
and
Jon Lindsay
Deep Strikes into Russia: A Partner’s Decision for Ukraine’s Strategic Success
Serhii Kuzan
Rewind and Reconnoiter: The Evolving Geography of the U.S. Defense Industrial Base with Doug Berenson
Doug Berenson
In Brief: The Threat of War Between Israel and Hizballah
Faysal Itani
,
Michael Koplow
,
Hanin Ghaddar
, and
Oren Barak
Integrating Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in the Marine Corps
Will McGee
Playing with Fire: Patterns of Iranian-Israeli Military Confrontation
Erwin van Veen
and
Hamidreza Azizi
China’s New Info Warriors: The Information Support Force Emerges
Joel Wuthnow
Batteries as a Military Enabler
Joseph Webster
Quality Has a Quality All Its Own: The Virtual Attrition Value of Superior-Performance Weapons
Evan Montgomery
,
Travis Sharp
, and
Tyler Hacker
Mare Nostrum Revisited: Maritime Competition in the Mediterranean
Jeremy Stöhs
and
Sebastian Bruns
Coming to Terms with the Loss of Turkey
Nick Danforth
and
Aaron Stein
Is there a Human in the Machine? AI and Future Warfare
James Johnson
Britain’s Strange Defeat: The 1941 Fall of Crete and Its Lessons for Taiwan
Iskander Rehman
Iran’s Nuclear Threshold Challenge
Toby Dalton
and
Ariel (Eli) Levite
Techcraft on Display in Ukraine
Brian A. Hester
,
Dennis Doyle
, and
Ronan A. Sefton
Gulf of Guinea Maritime Security: Lessons, Latency, and Law Enforcement
Max Williams
File Not Found: Russia Is Hacking Evidence of Its War Crimes
Rhiannon Neilsen
Crowning Achievement? Kaan and the Turkish Defense Industry
Rebecca Lucas
and
Stuart Dee
Rewind and Reconnoiter: Is America Still Born to Rule the Seas with Claude Berube
Claude Berube
The Drone Dilemma and the U.S. Air Force
Clifford Lucas
Uncrewed but Confident: Forging New Rules of the Road to Avoid Accidental Escalation
Thomas Shugart
Haiti: A Best-Case Scenario
Haleigh Bartos
,
John Chin
, and
Tyler Ashner
Will Fearless and Tireless Robots Lead to More Terrifying Wars?
Antonio Salinas
The Adversarial
WOTR Staff
Houthi Attacks in the Red Sea: A New Twist on the Jeune École?
Kevin McCranie
Don’t Count on Us: Canada’s Military Unreadiness
Philippe Lagassé
and
Justin Massie
Rewind and Reconnoiter: Russian Naval Power in the Black Sea with Daniel Fiott
Daniel Fiott
Innovation Adoption for All: Scaling Across the Department of Defense
Robert Work
,
Michael Brown
, and
Ellen Lord
Mine the Gap: How Washington and Canberra Can Improve Their Asymmetric Capabilities
Eric Lies
It’s Time for a Comprehensive National Maritime Strategy
Mark Kennedy
and
Jeff Kucik
Delay, Disrupt, Degrade: Mine Warfare in Taiwan’s Porcupine Defense
Jonathan Dorsey
,
Kelly A. Grieco
, and
Jennifer Kavanagh
Revisiting the Tanker War
Stephen Phillips
Fearing Their Officers More Than the Enemy: Summary Executions from George Washington to Ukraine
Alexander Burns
Strategic Myopia: The Proposed First Use of Tactical Nuclear Weapons to Defend Taiwan
David Kearn
Admiral Raoul Castex: The Naval Strategist for Non-Hegemons
Michael Shurkin
Send in the A-Team: A Graduated Response for Ukraine
Brian Petit
Outgunned in the Drone Fight: The U.S. Military Is Failing to Adopt the Next Machine Gun
Trevor Phillips-Levine
and
Walker D. Mills
Containing Global Russia
Michael Kimmage
and
Hanna Notte
The Adversarial: February 22
WOTR Staff
Rewind and Reconnoiter: Helping India Replace Russia in the Value Arms Market
Vasabjit Banerjee
and
Benjamin Tkach
Sanctions Are Working, And Can Work Even Better
Christine Abely
Taiwan’s Theory of the Fight
Tommy Jamison
Beating the Ossification Trap: Why Reform, Not Spending, Will Salvage American Power
Michael J Mazarr
Bringing the Swarm to Life: Roles, Missions, and Campaigns for the Replicator Initiative
Benjamin Jensen
Understanding the Deterrence Gap in the Taiwan Strait
Jared M. McKinney
and
Peter Harris
Uncrewed Systems and the Transformation of U.S. Warfighting Capacity
Mick Ryan
and
Clint Hinote
Automation Does Not Lead to Leaner Land Forces
Jack Watling
Europe’s Marines in the Future European Littoral Operating Environment
Sidharth Kaushal
How Taiwan’s New President Should Respond to Chinese Coercion
Thomas J. Shattuck
and
Benjamin Lewis
Trends in Maritime Challenges Indicate Force Design 2030 Is the Proper Path
C. Travis Reese
,
Ian Brown
,
Zach Ota
,
Travis Hord
,
Leo Spaeder
, and
Brian Strom
The Adversarial: January 26
WOTR Staff
Hold, Build, and Strike: A Vision for Rebuilding Ukraine’s Advantage in 2024
Michael Kofman
,
Rob Lee
, and
Dara Massicot
How the West Can Match Russia in Drone Innovation
Samuel Bendett
and
Jane Pinelis
Rocket-Powered Corruption: Why the Missile Industry Became the Target of Xi’s Purge
Elliot Ji
Bind Ukraine’s Military-Technology Revolution to Rapid Capability Development
Mykhaylo Lopatin
Empty Promises? A Year Inside the World of Multi-Domain Operations
Davis Ellison
and
Tim Sweijs
Military-technological cooperation across the Euro-Atlantic and Indo-Pacific
Daniel Fiott
Getting “Left-of-Launch” in the Counter-Drone Fight
Paul Lushenko
and
Caitlin Lee
Artificial Intelligence and Nuclear Stability
Michael Depp
and
Paul Scharre
Networking to Win: Mission Prioritization for Wartime Command and Control
Thane C. Clare
A Post-Election Risk Assessment for the Taiwan Strait
Amanda Hsiao
Rewind and Reconnoiter: Turkey’s Drone Technology with Aaron Stein
Aaron Stein
A Better Cyber Service
Michael Kreuzer
Written in Black and Red: Asymmetric Threats and Affordable Unmanned Surface Vessels
Mike Knickerbocker
The Adversarial: December 21
WOTR Staff
The Adversarial: December 7
WOTR Staff
Large-Scale Combat Operations Will Bring New Medical Ethics Challenges
Michael Wissemann
Learning from Real Wars: Gaza and Ukraine
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
Chinese Private Security Companies: Neither Blackwater Nor the Wagner Group
Alessandro Arduino
Rewind and Reconnoiter: How Iran Helped Houthis Expand Their Reach with Thomas Juneau
Thomas Juneau
The True Military Assistance Tradeoff Is Between Israel and Taiwan
Jennifer Kavanagh
and
Jordan Cohen
One Size Fits None: The United States Needs a Grand Defense Industrial Strategy
Jonathan Caverley
,
Ethan Kapstein
, and
Jennifer Kavanagh
Citizen Sailors: The Missing Link in Maritime Force Structure
Joshua P. Taylor
and
Scott Humphrey
The Adversarial: November 9
WOTR Staff
Rewind and Reconnoiter: Israel’s Urban Warfare with David Betz
David Betz
Inflection Point: How to Reverse the Erosion of U.S. and Allied Military Power and Influence
David Ochmanek
and
Andrew Hoehn
Rewind and Reconnoiter: Israel and the Demise of “Mowing the Grass” with T.X. Hammes
T.X. Hammes
Japan’s Play for Today: Too Much? Just Right? Or Never Enough?
Jeffrey W. Hornung
The Adversarial: October 27
WOTR Staff
Rewind and Reconnoiter: Hamas and the Dangerous Diffusion of Basic Infantry Tactics, with Leo Blanken, Kai Thaxton, and Michael Alexander
Leo Blanken
,
Kai Thaxton
, and
Michael Alexander
Operational Art for the Replicator Initiative: Confessions of a Swarming Addict
Benjamin Jensen
Don’t Rely on U.S. Law to Prevent Escalation in the Middle East
Brian Finucane
and
Michael Wahid Hanna
The Four Questions The U.S. Military Should Be Asking About Operation Swords of Iron
Raphael S. Cohen
and
Gian Gentile
America’s Failing Iran Nuclear Policy: Time for a Course Adjustment
Michael Eisenstadt
Rewind & Reconnoiter: Iran’s Axis of Resistance with Hamidreza Azizi and Nancy Ezzeddine
Hamidreza Azizi
and
Nancy Ezzeddine
Iran’s Support for Hamas and the Risk of Multi-Front Escalation
Raz Zimmt
Iran, Israel, and War in the Middle East
Afshon Ostovar
Gulf States Should Push Iran to Get Serious About Lowering Tensions
Alex Vatanka
Plus ça change: A French Approach to Naval Warfare in the 21st Century
Michael Shurkin
How to Avoid a Second Front Between Israel and Hizballah
Nadav Pollak
In Brief: The U.S.-Saudi-Israeli Deal
Alexandra Stark
,
Lina Khatib
, and
Khaled Elgindy
Alliance Assignments: Defense Priorities for Key NATO States
Stephen Flanagan
and
Anna M. Dowd
Testing the Trajectory of Turkish Militarism
Ryan Gingeras
Scaling the Future: How Replicator Aims to Fast-Track U.S. Defense Capabilities
Lauren Kahn
Making Nuclear Sharing Credible Again: What the F-35A Means for NATO
Frank Kuhn
North Korea’s Coming Breakout
Jonathan Corrado
It’s Time to Build Combined Forward Operating Base Sierra Madre
Blake Herzinger
Iranian Drone Proliferation is Scaling Up and Turning More Lethal
Nakissa Jahanbani
,
Muhammad Najjar
,
Benjamin Johnson
,
Caleb Benjamin
, and
Muhammad al-Ubaydi
Revisiting the Hedge Strategy with Renewed Urgency
Michael Brown
and
Rear Adm. Lorin Selby
Perseverance and Adaptation: Ukraine’s Counteroffensive at Three Months
Michael Kofman
and
Rob Lee
Carrier Strike Groups Should Be Ready to Go Dark in Conflict
Nick Danby
The Future of Algorithmic Warfare Part III: Stagnation
Benjamin Jensen
,
Christopher Whyte
, and
Scott Cuomo
Open Source Technology and Public-Private Innovation Are the Key to Ukraine’s Strategic Resilience
Audrey Kurth Cronin
Commoditized Weapons in Ukraine: Are the Allies Getting the Procurement Right?
Jonathan Caverley
and
Ethan Kapstein
To Promote Defense Innovation, Fund the Defense Innovation Unit
Ben McNally
Italy’s New Look
Leonardo Palma
You Go to War With the Industrial Base You Have, Not the Industrial Base You Want
John Barrett
The Battle of Hostomel Airport: A Key Moment in Russia’s Defeat in Kyiv
Liam Collins
,
Michael Kofman
, and
John Spencer
The Future of Algorithmic Warfare Part II: Wild Goose Chases
Benjamin Jensen
,
Christopher Whyte
, and
Scott Cuomo
Why Ukrainian Soldiers Have to Learn to Fight on YouTube and How to Change That
Paul Schneider
Delivering the Army of 2030
Gen. James Rainey
and
Lt. Gen. Laura Potter
Survivability and What It Means to Risk It
Josh Portzer
NATO’s Prodigal Son Is Not Returning
Selim Koru
Europe’s Missile Conundrum
Fabian Hoffmann
Iran’s Proxy Fleets-in-Being
Shawn Bunting
The Future of Algorithmic Warfare: Fragmented Development
Benjamin Jensen
,
Christopher Whyte
, and
Scott Cuomo
Put Educational Wargaming in the Hands of the Warfighter
Sebastian J. Bae
In Brief: The U.S.-Indian Relationship
Tanvi Madan
,
Arzan Tarapore
,
Vasabjit Banerjee
, and
Sharinee L. Jagtiani
Iran, Russia, and the Challenges of “Inter-Pariah Solidarity”
Mathieu Droin
and
Nicole Grajewski
Michael Quinlan Was Right: The Enduring Relevance of Nuclear Deterrence
Gregory Giles
Ukraine Doesn’t Need U.S. Contractors
Rudy Weisz
Six Lessons from Ukraine for Japanese Defense Planners
Jeffrey W. Hornung
Don’t Abandon Burkina Faso
Michael Shurkin
What the Ukrainian Armed Forces Need to Do to Win
Erik Kramer
and
Paul Schneider
The Art of Supply Chain Interdiction: To Win Without Fighting
Trevor Phillips-Levine
A Pirouette, Not A Pivot
Aaron Stein
Negotiating Saudi Arabia’s Defeat and the Houthi Victory in Yemen
Thomas Juneau
U.S. Military Observers And Why They Are Needed In Ukraine
Zachary Griffiths
U.S. Security Cooperation Deserves a Fair Evaluation
Bilal Y. Saab
Turkey’s Elections and Foreign Policy Options
Onur İşçi
and
Samuel J. Hirst
AI At War
Anthony King
Germany’s Reluctant Approach to Space Security Policy
Carolin Busch
and
Lorène Slous
The Human Element: The Army’s Competitive Advantage in the Age of Innovation
Brig. Gen. Shane R. Reeves
and
Adam T. Barsuhn
Money Isn’t Enough: Getting Serious About Precision Munitions
Tyler Hacker
Bind Ukraine Closer to American Military Learning
Ryan Evans
More than a Hobby: Informal Security Assistance to Ukraine
Jahara Matisek
,
William Reno
, and
Sam Rosenberg
In Defense of Denial: Why Deterring China Requires New Airpower Thinking
Maximilian K. Bremer
and
Kelly A. Grieco
Russia Won’t Sit Idly by after Finland and Sweden Join NATO
Nicholas Lokker
and
Heli Hautala
For the Sake of Ceremony: Should the U.S. Navy Continue its Airborne Forward Air Controller Program?
Trevor Phillips-Levine
and
Andrew Tenbusch
Libya’s Fragile Deadlock
Jalel Harchaoui
Winning the Air Battle for Taiwan: Lessons from Ukraine’s Drone Operations
Caitlin Lee
Amateur Hour Part III: It’s Still Not About the Airplane
Mike Pietrucha
The Case for Japanese Land Power in the First Island Chain
Yusuke Kawachi
The Enduring Russian Impediment to U.S.-Indian Relations
Erin Mello
The Promise and Pitfalls of Underwater Domain Awareness
Abhijit Singh
The Iran-Iraq War and the Lessons for Ukraine
Ronan P. Mainprize
The Somme in the Sky: Lessons from the Russo-Ukrainian Air War
Michael Stefanovic
,
Robert “Chuck” Norris
,
Christophe Piubeni
, and
Dave Blair
Seoul’s Nuclear Temptations and the U.S.-South Korean Alliance
Ankit Panda
America’s Hidden Tool is Hobbling Russia’s War Machine with Multilateral Impact
Deputy Secretary Don Graves
Recalibrating Special Operations Risk Tolerance for the Future Fight
Spencer Reed
Japan’s Strategic Shift Is Significant, but Implementation Hurdles Await
Jeffrey W. Hornung
and
Christopher B. Johnstone
Into the Pickle Barrel: How Thinking About Precision as a System Can Expand the Munition Stockpile
Trevor Phillips-Levine
,
Andrew Tenbusch
,
Walker D. Mills
,
Dylan “Joose” Phillips-Levine
, and
Collin Fox
Software Defines Tactics
Jason Weiss
and
Dan Patt
The Real Reasons for Taiwan’s Arms Backlog — and How to Help Fill It
Jennifer Kavanagh
and
Jordan Cohen
Ukraine’s Consequences Are Finally Spreading to Syria
Mona Yacoubian
Ukraine and the New Two War Construct
Raphael S. Cohen
American Defense Priorities After Ukraine
Frank Hoffman
Turkey’s Russian Red Light in Syria
Sam Heller
Making Joint All Domain Command and Control a Reality
David Deptula
Disentangling The Digital Battlefield: How the Internet Has Changed War
Steven Feldstein
Turkey’s Future Drone Carriers
Olli Pekka Suorsa
and
Brendon J. Cannon
How Can the Marines Learn From the Falklands War?
Nolan Vihlen
Ukraine and the Future of Offensive Maneuver
Stephen Biddle
The Bias For Capability Over Capacity Has Created a Brittle Force
Mackenzie Eaglen
Ukraine Needs Air Defense Assistance to Protect Hard-Won Victories on the Ground
Justin Bronk
The Path Ahead in Turkey’s Upcoming Electoral Campaign
James Ryan
Relative Dominance: Russian Naval Power in the Black Sea
Daniel Fiott
Don’t Expect Any More Russian Help on the Iran Nuclear Deal
Hanna Notte
Train Like You Fight: Updating America’s Adversary Fleet
Ryan Fishel
As Russia Reels, Eurasia Roils
Jeffrey Mankoff
Airpower and Interdiction: Overcoming Defender Advantages
John D. Maurer
How Much Multipolarity Does a Strongman Need?: Why Erdogan Has Benefited From Russia’s Failure in Ukraine
Nick Danforth
Reliance on Dual-Use Technology Is a Trap
Jake Chapman
Beating the Authoritarian Legacy: Upgrading Conscription in Greece and Taiwan
Antonis Kamaras
The Tank Is Not Obsolete, and Other Observations About the Future of Combat
Rob Lee
Hedging with Humility: Reassessing China’s Power Projection Capabilities Against Taiwan
Trevor Phillips-Levine
,
Kyle Cregge
, and
Collin Fox
Ending the Ideology of the Offense, Part II
David Johnson
The Accelerating Threat of the Political Assassination
Bruce Hoffman
and
Jacob Ware
The Sword, the Shield, and the Hedgehog: Strengthening Deterrence in NATO’s New Strategic Concept
Sean Monaghan
Pushing Back Against China’s New Normal in the Taiwan Strait
Bonny Lin
and
Joel Wuthnow
Strategic Outpost’s Seventh Annual Summer Vacation Reading List
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
Amateur Hour Part II: Failing the Air Campaign
Mike Pietrucha
Necro-Aeronautics: Raising Undead Aircraft for War
Zachary Kallenborn
An Alternative History of AirLand Battle, Part II
David Johnson
and
Zach Alessi-Friedlander
Despite Rhetoric, Biden is Continuing Trump’s Weapons Sales
Lauren Woods
AI, Autonomy, and the Risk of Nuclear War
James Johnson
Real Friends Twist Arms: Taiwan and the Case for Conditionality
Michael A. Hunzeker
and
Alexander Lanoszka
The Future of China’s Cognitive Warfare: Lessons from the War in Ukraine
Koichiro Takagi
Whose Version of the War on Terror Won?
Joseph Stieb
Iran’s Increasingly Decentralized Axis of Resistance
Nancy Ezzeddine
and
Hamidreza Azizi
On-the-Ground Truth and Force Design 2030 Reconciliation: A Way Forward
Scott Cuomo
Preserve This Early-Stage Bet That Benefits National Security
Kevin Landtroop
Weak Human, Strong Force: Applying Advanced Chess to Military AI
Trevor Phillips-Levine
,
Michael Kanaan
,
Dylan “Joose” Phillips-Levine
,
Walker D. Mills
, and
Noah Spataro
To Robot or Not to Robot? Past Analysis of Russian Military Robotics and Today’s War in Ukraine
Samuel Bendett
The Other Big Lessons That the U.S. Army Should Learn from Ukraine
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
A Confidence-Building Defense for NATO
Lukas Mengelkamp
,
Alexander Graef
, and
Ulrich Kühn
Feedback Loops and Fundamental Flaws in Autonomous Warships
Jonathan Panter
and
Johnathan Falcone
What’s Wrong with Wanting a “Human in the Loop”?
Jovana Davidovic
What the Indian Military Won’t Learn from the War in Ukraine
Anit Mukherjee
In Denial About Denial: Why Ukraine’s Air Success Should Worry the West
Maximilian K. Bremer
and
Kelly A. Grieco
The Army Risks Reasoning Backwards in Analyzing Ukraine
David Johnson
Rebooting the Arsenal of Democracy
Trae Stephens
Would We Do Better? Hubris and Validation in Ukraine
David Johnson
You Go to War with the Turkey You Have, Not the Turkey You Want
Aaron Stein
Are the Marines Inventing the Edsel or the Mustang?
Owen West
How Strong Is al-Qaeda? A Debate
Daniel Byman
and
Asfandyar Mir
Helping India Replace Russia in the Value Arms Market
Vasabjit Banerjee
and
Benjamin Tkach
Is Artificial Intelligence Made in Humanity’s Image? Lessons for an AI Military Education
Vincent J. Carchidi
Flying Dirty: Unmanned Casualty Evacuation on the Contaminated Battlefield
Mike Hicks
and
John Stoodley
A View From the Trenches on the Debate Wracking the Marine Corps
Stephen W. LaRose
How AI Would — and Wouldn’t — Factor Into a U.S.-Chinese War
Alex Stephenson
and
Ryan Fedasiuk
Loitering Munitions in Ukraine and Beyond
Brennan Deveraux
The Russo-Ukrainian War at Sea: Retrospect and Prospect
B.J. Armstrong
The Tank Is Dead: Long Live the Javelin, the Switchblade, the … ?
David Johnson
Eight New Points on the Porcupine: More Ukrainian Lessons for Taiwan
Andrew Erickson
and
Gabriel Collins
As Silicon Valley Tries to Enlist, the Pentagon Strangles Innovation
Steve Blank
Supporting Ukraine for the Long War
Jack Watling
On Future Wars and the Marine Corps: Asking the Right Questions
Tim Barrick
Beware of Potemkin: Germany’s Defense Rethink Risks Reinforcing Old Habits
Torben Schütz
,
Joseph Verbovszky
, and
Heiko Borchert
Reboot the Defense Innovation Ecosystem
Shands Pickett
Insights for Marine (and Beyond) Force Design from the Russo-Ukrainian War
Noel Williams
Dancing in Two Weddings: Israel Balances Russia and Ukraine
Ksenia Svetlova
A Proxy War in Ukraine Is the Worst Possible Outcome — Except For All the Others
Sam Winter-Levy
A New Phase of the Russo-Ukrainian War Begins
Michael Kofman
and
Ryan Evans
From Bombs to Bits: Air-to-Ground Operations as a Model for the Tactical Information Environment
Terry Traylor
and
David Nass
How the Bundeswehr Should Spend Its Money
Michael Shurkin
Ukraine’s Lessons for Taiwan
Jeffrey W. Hornung
The View of Ukraine from Taiwan: Get Real About Territorial Defense
Adm. (Ret.) Lee Hsi-Min
and
Michael A. Hunzeker
The Power of Proper Security Cooperation
E. John Teichert
Waking a Sleeping Giant: What’s Next for German Security Policy?
Sophia Besch
and
Sarah Brockmeier
What Russia’s New Reality Means for Turkey
Selim Koru
Understanding the Russo-Ukrainian War: A Guide From War on the Rocks
Ryan Evans
A Peace-Maker’s Case for Designating the Houthis
Gerald Feierstein
The Light Fighter Is the Air Force’s Manned-Unmanned Team Solution
Alex Biegalski
Signaling America’s New Middle East Foreign Policy
Morgan L. Kaplan
How to Protect Europe From Risky Foreign Direct Investment
Francesca Ghiretti
New Missiles, New Risks: The Escalatory Implications of Iran’s Precision-Strike Weapons
Jim Lamson
Reforming the Defense Department’s Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution Process
Thomas Spoehr
and
Frederico Bartels
Spiking the Problem: Developing a Resilient Posture in the Indo-Pacific with Passive Defenses
Stacie L. Pettyjohn
Winged Luddites: Aviators Are the Biggest Threat to Carrier Aviation
Noah Spataro
,
Trevor Phillips-Levine
, and
Andrew Tenbusch
Reestablish the U.S. Military Assistance Advisory Group-Taiwan
Jake Yeager
and
William Gerichten
Are New and Emerging Technologies Game-Changers for Smaller Powers?
Gen. Michael Claesson
and
Zebulon Carlander
What’s Behind the Arms Buildup in the Balkans
Vuk Vuksanovic
and
Marija Ignjatijevic
The Changing Face of Russian Counter-Irregular Warfare
Benjamin Arbitter
and
Kurt Carlson
Mobile Nuclear Power Reactors Won’t Solve the Army’s Energy Problems
Jake Hecla
Left of Beep: The United States Needs an Algorithmic Warfare Group
August Cole
What Would a Post-Erdoğan Turkish Foreign Policy Look Like?
M. Hasim Tekines
Taiwan’s Defense Plans Are Going Off the Rails
Michael A. Hunzeker
How Technology Changes Arms Control
Jane Vaynman
and
Doyle Hodges
The Haqqani Network: The New Kingmakers in Kabul
Jeff M. Smith
Prospects for Sino-Russian Coordination in Afghanistan
Elizabeth Wishnick
More Than Just a Fire: The Bonnie Dick Reveals a Navy in Shambles
Seth Cropsey
and
Harry Halem
India Is Not Sitting on the Geopolitical Fence
Tanvi Madan
In Post-American Central Asia, Russia and China are Tightening Their Grip
Bradley Jardine
and
Edward Lemon
The American Deconfliction Disadvantage: Ankara’s Drone Campaign in Syria and Iraq
Aaron Stein
The U.S.-Australian Alliance Needs a Strategy to Deter China’s Gray-Zone Coercion
Ashley Townshend
,
Thomas Lonergan
, and
Toby Warden
What to Expect When You’re Expecting a National Defense Strategy
Thomas Spoehr
,
Bradley Bowman
,
Bryan Clark
, and
Mackenzie Eaglen
What Losing Looks Like: Afghanistan’s ‘Hardest Place’
Gil Barndollar
Could Multinational Peacekeepers Prevent Worst-Case Outcomes in Afghanistan?
Ryan C. Van Wie
Working with the Devil? The Potential for U.S.-Taliban Cooperation Against the Islamic State in Afghanistan
Jonathan Schroden
and
Alexander Powell
A Hawkish Dove? President Moon Jae-in and South Korea’s Military Buildup
Lami Kim
Avoiding a Collision Course With India
Sameer Lalwani
and
Tyler Sagerstrom
A Weapons of Mass Destruction Strategy for the 21st Century
Al Mauroni
,
Zachary Kallenborn
,
Seth Carus
, and
Ron Fizer
The Return of Great-Power Proxy Wars
Frank Hoffman
and
Andrew Orner
Iran’s Bet on Autonomous Weapons
Evan Omeed Lisman
How Iran Helped Houthis Expand Their Reach
Thomas Juneau
From Desert Storm to Inherent Resolve: The Evolution of Airpower
Becca Wasser
and
Stacie L. Pettyjohn
Syria, Airpower, and the Future of Great-Power War
Aaron Stein
and
Ryan Fishel
The Militant Drone Playbook
Austin C. Doctor
and
James Igoe Walsh
The Royal Navy in the Indo-Pacific: Don’t Use a Sledgehammer to Crack a Nut
René Balletta
Freedom of Navigation Operations: A Mission for Unmanned Systems
Trevor Prouty
Sing, Missile Muse, of Gods and Heroes: America’s Most Fearsome Weapons Need Better Names
Tom Karako
To Advance Its Own Interests, Turkey Should Now Help Stabilize Libya
Emadeddin Badi
Managed Risks, Managed Expectations: How Far Will Targeted Killing Get the United States in Afghanistan?
Bryce Loidolt
Bring Back the Air Force Battle Lab
Mike Benitez
Trading One Dependency for Another
Nadia Schadlow
The Great Churning: Modi’s Transformation of the Indian Military
Anit Mukherjee
Back to the Future: Getting Special Forces Ready for Great-Power Competition
Barnett S. Koven
and
Chris Mason
Remove a Sanctions Cloud from U.S.-Indian Relations
Kenneth I. Juster
Biden and the Western Balkans
Vuk Vuksanovic
To Survive, Deceive: Decoys in Land Warfare
Rémy Hémez
No Legal Objection, Per Se
E.M. Liddick
Why Is It So Tough to Withdraw from Afghanistan?
Ryan Baker
and
Jonathan Schroden
Turkey’s Talk Show Nationalists
Ryan Gingeras
The Longest Telegram: A Visionary Blueprint for the Comprehensive Grand Strategy Against China We Need
C. Lee Shea
National Security Needs Both Futurists and Traditionalists
Zachary Kallenborn
Strategizing to Exit Afghanistan: From Risk Avoidance to Risk Management
Sameer Lalwani
Steering in the Right Direction in the Military-Technical Revolution
Robert Work
,
James A. Winnefeld, Jr.
, and
Stephanie O’Sullivan
Covert Action, Espionage, and the Intelligence Contest in Cyberspace
Michael Poznansky
Redefine Readiness or Lose
Gen. Charles Q. Brown, Jr.
and
Gen. David H. Berger
On the Digital Brink
Chris Lynch
and
Oliver Lewis
Al-Qaeda Is Being Hollowed to Its Core
Barak Mendelsohn
and
Colin Clarke
Unfurl the Banner! Privateers and Commerce Raiding of China’s Merchant Fleet in Developing Markets
Christopher D. Booth
and
Walker D. Mills
A Better Bureaucracy Can Close the Gap Between Defense and Commercial Technology
Joe Felter
,
Raj Shah
, and
Steve Blank
The Faultline Between Futurists and Traditionalists in National Security
John Speed Meyers
and
David Jackson
Making Friends in Maker-Spaces: From Grassroots Innovation to Great-Power Competition
Leo Blanken
,
Romulo G. Dimayuga II
, and
Kristen Tsolis
Profiteers, Vultures, and the Defeat of the U.N. Embargo on Libya
Peter Kirechu
Confidence and Catastrophe: Armenia and the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War
Michael A. Reynolds
Machine Learning and Life-and-Death Decisions on the Battlefield
Brad DeWees
,
Chris Umphres
, and
Maddy Tung
The Pendulum: How Russia Sways Its Way to More Influence in Libya
Jalel Harchaoui
The Nashville Bombing and Threats to Critical Infrastructure: We Saw This Coming
Audrey Kurth Cronin
Small, Distributed, and Secure: A New Basing Architecture for the Middle East
Becca Wasser
and
Aaron Stein
The President’s Science Advisor Should Be a Full Member of the National Security Council and Its Principals Committee
Christopher Chyba
and
Ethan Magistro
The New Great Game at Sea
Geoffrey F. Gresh
Deal or Déjà Vu? Libya’s Post-Conflict Political and Security Governance Dilemma
Amanda Kadlec
2020 War on the Rocks Holiday Reading List
WOTR Staff
Intelligence in the Biden Administration
Joshua Rovner
How Biden Should Handle the South China Sea Disputes
Krista E. Wiegand
Turkey’s Crisis with the West: How a New Low in Relations Risks Paralyzing NATO
Antoine Got
The Paradox of Precision: Nonstate Actors and Precision-Guided Weapons
Itamar Lifshitz
and
Ayal Meents
Remembering When the Memories Are No Longer Our Own
Peter Lucier
What the Abraham Accords Reveal About the United Arab Emirates
Elham Fakhro
Climate Change as an Unconventional Security Risk
Cullen Hendrix
The Second Nagorno-Karabakh War, Two Weeks In
Michael Kofman
and
Leonid Nersisyan
Is Change Coming? Smartly Reshaping and Strengthening America’s Nuclear Deterrent
Christine Parthemore
and
Andy Weber
The United States Can Only Achieve AI Dominance with Its Allies
James Ryseff
Making the U.S. Military’s Counter-Terrorism Mission Sustainable
Stephen Tankel
The Painful, but Necessary, Next Steps in the U.S.-Taiwanese Relationship
Michael A. Hunzeker
and
Dennis L. Weng
How America’s Experience with Pakistan Can Help it Deal with Turkey
Aaron Stein
and
Robert Hamilton
The Looming Influx of Foreign Fighters in Sub-Saharan Africa
Austin C. Doctor
Tarhuna, Mass Graves, and Libya’s Internationalized Civil War
Jalel Harchaoui
Simple Joys of Maidenhood
Loren DeJonge Schulman
,
Radha Iyengar
, and
Erin Simpson
In Defense of ‘WMD’: A War of Words and the Challenge of Swarms
Zachary Kallenborn
Revelations and Opportunities: What the United States Can Learn from the Sino-Indian Crisis
Sameer Lalwani
Why You Can’t Call in an Air Strike with an iPhone
Jonathan Wong
When it Comes to Missiles, Don’t Copy Russia and China — Leapfrog Them
Jeff Becker
Visions of War, West Point, and Waywardness
Luke J. Schumacher
Revelations about Russia’s Nuclear Deterrence Policy
Cynthia Roberts
Chinese Debates on the Military Utility of Artificial Intelligence
Michael Dahm
Australia-India Naval Cooperation and the Islands of the Indo-Pacific
Darshana M. Baruah
‘Keeping the Russians Out, the Americans In, and the Computers Down?’ Erik Lin-Greenberg on His Article “Allies and Artificial Intelligence”
Erik Lin-Greenberg
and
Doyle Hodges
As Conflict Escalates in Libya, the Economy Veers Toward Crisis
Tim Eaton
The Pentagon Should Train for — and Not Just Talk About — Great-Power Competition
Tom Greenwood
and
Owen Daniels
The Rest of the Story: Evaluating the U.S. Marine Corps Force Design 2030
Benjamin Jensen
Is the Infantry Brigade Combat Team Becoming Obsolete?
Daniel Vazquez
Toward a New Theory of Power Projection
Michael J. Mazarr
Building a Marine Corps for Every Contingency, Clime, and Place
T. X. Hammes
The Defense Production Act and the Failure to Prepare for Catastrophic Incidents
Jared Brown
The Future of Tactical Airlift Is Here and It Is Vertical
Walker D. Mills
and
Dylan “Joose” Phillips-Levine
Don’t Forget the Historical Context of Russo-Turkish Competition
Jeffrey Mankoff
What Can the Picatinny Rail Teach Us About Artificial Intelligence?
Hans Vreeland
Did America Learn the Wrong Lessons from Its Clash with Iran?
Eric Brewer
and
Henry Rome
Did the Cyberspace Solarium Commission Live Up to its Name?
Joshua Rovner
How the Endless War Came Home
Ashley Deeks
Synchronizing Change and Air Force Culture: Modernization and the Dirty Secret of Aircrew Shortages
Mike Byrnes
The U.S. Military’s Investment Ecosystem is Missing in Action
Stephen Rodriguez
The Case for a Unified Future Warfare Command
Safi Bahcall
America Shouldn’t Abandon Its Allies in the Sahel
Olivier-Rémy Bel
On Fragile Footing in Yemen after the Soleimani Strike
Alexandra Stark
The Politics of Man-Hunting and the Illusion of Victory
Raphael S. Cohen
The Drone Beats of War: The U.S. Vulnerability to Targeted Killings
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
The Ethical Upside to Artificial Intelligence
Ray Reeves
Don’t Go Too Crazy, Marine Corps
Mark Cancian
Expeditionary Advanced Maritime Operations: How the Marine Corps Can Avoid Becoming a Second Land Army in the Pacific
Jake Yeager
Mosaic Warfare: Small and Scalable are Beautiful
Benjamin Jensen
and
John Paschkewitz
Artificial Intelligence, Foresight, and the Offense-Defense Balance
Ben Garfinkel
and
Allan Dafoe
In Need of Direction: The Case for Moving Supply Chains Out of China
Derek Scissors
Mobile Nuclear Power Will Enable a Logistics Revolution for the Army
Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Dan Christman
Why the Government Isn’t a Bigger Version of a Startup
Steve Blank
A State with Four Armies: How to Deal with the Case of Iraq
Sardar Aziz
and
Erwin van Veen
Charting the Future of Education for the Navy-Marine Corps Team
John Kroger
First, Manage Security Threats to Machine Learning
Rand Waltzman
and
Thomas Szayna
AI and Irregular Warfare: An Evolution, Not a Revolution
Daniel Egel
,
Eric Robinson
,
Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Charles T. Cleveland
, and
Christopher (CJ) Oates
With AI, We’ll See Faster Fights, but Longer Wars
Margarita Konaev
Military Deception: AI’s Killer App?
Edward Geist
and
Marjory Blumenthal
Our Future Lies in Making AI Robust and Verifiable
Danielle C. Tarraf
A Better Idea Can Win the Next Big War for the Ground Services
Robert Scales
AI Risks to Nuclear Deterrence Are Real
Zachary Kallenborn
Under the Radar, Iran’s Cruise Missile Capabilities Advance
Shahryar Pasandideh
Light Touch, Tight Grip: China’s Influence and the Corrosion of Serbian Democracy
Vuk Vuksanovic
Compete with Iran Without Trying to Destroy it
Aaron Stein
How Marine Security Cooperation Can Translate into Sea Control
Brian Kerg
,
Anthony King
, and
Michael Murray
It’s Time to Talk About A2/AD: Rethinking the Russian Military Challenge
Michael Kofman
What if the U.S. Military Neglects AI? AI Futures and U.S. Incapacity
Zachary Kallenborn
A Guide to Not Killing or Mutilating Artificial Intelligence Research
Eric Lofgren
Russian AI-Enabled Combat: Coming to a City Near You?
Margarita Konaev
and
Samuel Bendett
Strategic Outpost’s Fourth Annual Summer Vacation Reading List
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
The Pitfalls of Writing About Revolutionary Defense Technology
Laura Schousboe
Libya’s Civil War: Navigating its Dangerous New Phase
Anas El Gomati
I, Black Box: Explainable Artificial Intelligence and the Limits of Human Deliberative Processes
Molly Kovite
The Elephant in the Room: Auditing the Past and Future of the U.S.-India Partnership
Sameer Lalwani
and
Heather Byrne
Is the Air Force Serious about Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance?
Robert Stiegel
F-15EX: The Strategic Blind Spot in the Air Force’s Fighter Debate
Mike Benitez
Muting the Hype over Hypersonics: The Offense-Defense Balance in Historical Perspective
Heather Venable
and
Clarence Abercrombie
The Day After S-400: The Turkish-American Relationship Will Get Worse
Aaron Stein
Targeting the Islamic State, Or Why the Military Should Invest in Artificial Intelligence
Hans Vreeland
How to End the Civil War in Somalia: Negotiate with al-Shabaab
Jason Hartwig
Countering WMD in the Digital Age: Breaking Down Bureaucratic Silos in a Brave New World
Natasha E. Bajema
Scaling the Levels of War: The Strategic Major and the Future of Multi-Domain Operations
Heather Venable
and
Jared R. Donnelly
An Empire, If You Can Find It? American Hegemony and Imperial Control
Emma Ashford
Blurring the Lines Part III: Airpower Applications in the Gray Zone
Mike Pietrucha
and
Jeremy Renken
Air Force Manned Reconnaissance at a Crossroads
Robert S. Hopkins, III
Trump Cancels Drone Strike Civilian Casualty Report: Does It Matter?
Nicholas Grossman
From Athens to AI: The Return of History, the Revenge of Rivalry, and the Resurgence of Great Power Competition
C. Lee Shea
The Developing Fight for Tactical Air Control
Jules Hurst
Tactical Art in Future Wars
Robert H. Scales
Samson the Carrier and Goliath the Amphib: Twin Giants of a Compromised Fleet Architecture
Noel Williams
Future War: Not Back to the Future
Mike Dana
The Little Airplane that Couldn’t? The Air Force’s Light Attack Message
Heather Venable
It Is Time for Germans to Talk About Sicherheitspolitik
Ulrike Franke
The Best Defense Ever? Busting Myths About the Trump Administration’s Missile Defense Review
Joan Johnson-Freese
and
David T. Burbach
In Venezuela, an Isolated Maduro Searches for Allies Across the Globe
Imdat Oner
and
Lana Shehadeh
Technological Identity and Autonomous Systems: Lessons from the Battleship
Steven Hallgren
In the Era of Electronic Warfare, Bring Back Pigeons
Frank Blazich
Explaining the DIA’s Critical Role in National Security
Derek Grossman
Welcome to Fight Club: Wargaming the Future
Benjamin Jensen
The Past, Present, and Future of Navies and the Maritime World
B.J. Armstrong
It’s the People, Stupid: The Year in Airpower
Mike Benitez
Artificial Intelligence and the Military: Technology Is Only Half the Battle
Michael Horowitz
and
Casey Mahoney
The 2018 War on the Rocks Holiday Reading List
WOTR Staff
Beyond the Radar Archipelago: A New Roadmap for Missile Defense Sensors
Thomas Karako
Biotechnology for the Battlefield: In Need of a Strategy
Diane DiEuliis
Prospero
Hal Wilson
Is China Ahead of America in Next-Generation Unmanned Aircraft?
Andrea Gilli
and
Mauro Gilli
A Very British AI Revolution in Intelligence is Needed
Keith Dear
The Two Faces of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula
Gregory D. Johnsen
How Long Can the U.S. Military’s Golden Hour Last?
Tanisha M. Fazal
,
Todd Rasmussen
,
Paul Nelson
, and
P.K. Carlton
Reports of the Death of Arms Control Have Been Greatly Exaggerated
Alexandra Bell
and
Andrew Futter
Hope on the Horizon: Taiwan’s Radical New Defense Concept
Drew Thompson
Trump’s Arms Exports Policy: Debunking Key Assumptions
Shimon Arad
How the Marines will Help the U.S. Navy and America’s Allies Win the Great Indo-Pacific War of 2025
Scott Cuomo
,
Olivia Garard
,
Noah Spataro
, and
Jeff Cummings
Who is the Admiral Rickover of Naval Artificial Intelligence?
Connor S. McLemore
and
Eric Jimenez
The Python Problem: Reflections on the War on Terror, 17 Years Later
David A. Brown
,
Timothy Hoyt
, and
Craig Whiteside
The Coming Swarm Might Be Dead on Arrival
Shmuel Shmuel
The Role of Anti-Access/Area Denial in Controlling Escalation in Gaza
Shimon Arad
Some Modest Proposals for Defense Department Requirements Reform
Colin Jones
and
Alexander Kirss
The August War, Ten Years On: A Retrospective on the Russo-Georgian War
Michael Kofman
The Perfect Can Wait: Good Solutions to the ‘Drone Swarm’ Problem
Joseph Hanacek
Synthetic Biology: The Promise and Peril of a New Dual-Use Technology
Al Mauroni
Personnel Reform Lives, but Don’t Call It ‘Force of the Future’
Blaise Misztal
,
Jack Rametta
, and
Mary Farrell
Is a New Russian Black Sea Fleet Coming? Or Is It Here?
Dmitry Gorenburg
But First, Infrastructure: Creating the Conditions for Artificial Intelligence to Thrive in the Pentagon
Richard Kuzma
Watching for Signs of NATO’s End of Times
Ulrike Franke
Technological Prowess, Lethality, and the Civil-Military Divide
Torey McMurdo
and
Christopher Hocking
War in the Fourth Industrial Revolution
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
The Dangerous Rise of Kinetic Diplomacy
Monica Duffy Toft
Air Superiority Under 2000 Feet: Lessons from Waging Drone Warfare Against ISIL
Pablo Chovil
Searching for a High Note in the U.S.-India Maritime Partnership
Abhijit Singh
Winter Isn’t Coming, but HAL’s Grandkids Are
Frank Hoffman
Renewing Defense Innovation: Five Incentives for Forming Pentagon-Startup Partnerships
Jeff Decker
Why Washington’s New Drone Export Policy Is Good For National Security
Erik Lin-Greenberg
The U.S. Military’s Dangerous Embedded Assumptions
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
America’s Arms Sales Policy: Security Abroad, Not Jobs at Home
Jonathan Caverley
Trust, Troops, and Reapers: Getting ‘Drone’ Research Right
Cory T. Anderson
,
Dave Blair
,
Mike Byrnes
,
Joe Chapa
,
Amanda Collazzo
,
Scott Cuomo
,
Olivia Garard
,
Ariel M. Schuetz
, and
Scott VanOort
Failures of Imagination: The Military’s Biggest Acquisition Challenge
Jarrett Lane
and
Michelle Johnson
The Navy and Marine Corps Need to Prepare for the Swarm of the Future
David Pinion
Bombshell: Not Bringing Rexy Back
Loren DeJonge Schulman
,
Lindsey Ford
,
Erin Simpson
, and
Radha Iyengar
10 Takeaways From the Fight Against the Islamic State
Michael P. Dempsey
America is Well Within Range of a Big Surprise, So Why Can’t It See?
T.X. Hammes
The Sunset of the Predator: Reflections on the End of an Era
Joe Chapa
Ten Ways to Fix the U.S. Military’s Close Combat Lethality
Steven Cummings
,
Jeff Cummings
,
John Kivelin
,
John Spencer
, and
Scott Cuomo
Strategic Progress Remains Elusive in America’s Expanded Air Campaign Against Al-Shabaab
Tricia Bacon
Addressing Fears About the Nuclear Posture Review and Limited Nuclear Use
Frank Miller
Shock of the Mundane: The Dangerous Diffusion of Basic Infantry Tactics
Leo Blanken
,
Kai Thaxton
, and
Michael Alexander
Drawing Down from Incirlik: A Proposal to Improve America’s Strained Relations with Turkey
Aaron Stein
Lessons Learned from the Air War Against the Islamic State
Ryan Fishel
and
Aaron Stein
Loyal Wingman, Flocking, and Swarming: New Models of Distributed Airpower
Daniel Wassmuth
and
Dave Blair
Germany Charts its Place in the World, But Struggles to Adapt to Changing Realities
Ulrike Franke
The Destabilizing Dangers of U.S. Counterterrorism in the Sahel
Nathaniel Powell
A Growing Strategic Gap Between America and Europe?
Olivier Schmitt
and
Stéphane Taillat
Trust, Confidence, and the Future of Warfare
Julia Macdonald
and
Jacquelyn Schneider
When Dauntless Isn’t Enough: The Moral and Strategic Imperative to Fix America’s Close Combat Units
Robert H. Scales
,
Scott Cuomo
, and
Jeff Cummings
Forever Deployed: Why ‘Combat-To-Dwell’ Reform for MQ-9 Crews is Beyond Overdue
Johnny Duray
No More Self-Licking Ice Cream Cones: Marines Need to Train Against Realistic Adversaries
Ryan Pallas
When the Piper Cub Roamed the Battlefield
Frank Blazich
Marines, Algorithms, and Ammo: Taking ‘Team of Teams’ to the Contested Littorals
Jeff Cummings
,
Scott Cuomo
,
Olivia Garard
, and
Noah Spataro
Terrorism Before and During the War on Terror: A Look at the Numbers
Sean Zeigler
and
Meagan Smith
Progress and Peril in North Waziristan
Michael Kugelman
From Security to Reconciliation: How Nigeria Can Win Its Bloody War With Boko Haram
Sam Wilkins
Do Trees Fall in Cyberspace?
H. Akın Ünver
Why the Army Needs a Futures Command
Neil Hollenbeck
and
Benjamin Jensen
Playing Zone Defense: Niger and the Risk Versus Reward of Remote Operations
Brian Petit
OA-X Strikes Back: Eight Myths on Light Attack
Mike Pietrucha
The False Promise of the OA-X
Adam Chitwood
Why the Navy Needs a Fighting Connector: Distributed Maritime Operations and the Modern Littoral Environment
Douglas King
and
Brett Friedman
The War on Terrorism as Imperial Policing
Joshua Rovner
Between Autonomy and Cooperation: The Role of Allies in France’s New Defense Strategy
Alice Pannier
Time to Step Back from the War on Terror
Erik Goepner
and
Trevor Thrall
For the Philippines, More Money and Arms is Not the Answer
David Lewton
When the Unblinking Eye Closes: Digital Feast and Famine in the Marine Corps
Ian Brown
The Red Queen Problem: Innovation in the Defense Department and Intelligence Community
Steve Blank
Open Your Eyes and See the 21st Century MAGTF
Scott Cuomo
,
Jeff Cummings
,
Olivia Garard
, and
Noah Spataro
A Fleet to Do What?
Phillip Pournelle
Southern Asia is Heating Up: An Indian Perspective
Gurmeet Kanwal
Self-Defense and Strategic Direction in the Skies Over Syria
Ryan Fishel
and
Aaron Stein
Killing Sanctuary: The Coming Era of Small, Smart, Pervasive Lethality
J. Noel Williams
Will Pakistan and the U.S. Make a Deal?
Shashank Joshi
A Business Approach to America’s Warfighting Model
Benjamin Jensen
,
Neil Hollenbeck
, and
Arnel David
Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the Limits of U.S. Influence
Christopher Clary
Southern Asia’s Escalating Strategic Competition
Sameer Lalwani
and
Travis Wheeler
How the Enemy Could Hit the U.S. Army at Home
Patrick Duggan
Dueling NGOs on the Seas: ‘What Ships Are For’
Claude Berube
and
Chris Rawley
Marine Corps Aviation: Let the “Guardian Angel” Be Your Moneyball and the VMUs Your Oakland A’s
Olivia Garard
Scientist-Warrior Geeks: Turning Knowledge Into Power
Lukasz Kamienski
The Future of Military Robotics Looks Like a Nature Documentary
Gregory C. Allen
Secretary Mattis’ “Guardian Angel” and How Marine Corps Aviation Can Get Back on Target
Scott Cuomo
Adapting in Stride: Fighting Tomorrow’s Battle Today
Eric Winkofsky
,
Josh Nunn
,
Pete Marks
,
Richard Robinson
, and
Miguel Cruz
Lady Gaga’s Air Force and the Grunt-Angel for Marines: An Infantry Officer’s Unlikely Exploration
Ben Brewster
“Drone Ethics” and the Civil-Military Gap
Joe Chapa
Modi and Trump: The Virtue of Low Expectations
Thomas Lynch
Multi-Domain Battle: AirLand Battle, Once More, with Feeling
Shmuel Shmuel
A Base is More than Buildings: The Military Implications of the Qatar Crisis
David Des Roches
The Future of War is Fast Approaching in the Pacific: Are the U.S. Military Services Ready?
Michael Horowitz
Iran’s Growing Casualty Count in Yemen
Joshua Koontz
The Ten Main Defense Challenges Facing Macron’s France
Jean-Baptiste Jeangène Vilmer
How the IED Won: Dispelling the Myth of Tactical Success and Innovation
Jason Shell
Playing Moneyball: The Scouting Report on Light Attack Aircraft
Joel Bier
Yemen: The Graveyard of U.S. Policy Myths
Kevin L. Schwartz
Mirages of War: Six Illusions From our Recent Conflicts
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
Doubling Down on America’s Misadventure in Yemen
Perry Cammack
and
Richard Sokolsky
The Debate Over Indian Nuclear Strategy is Heating Up
Sameer Lalwani
and
Hannah Haegeland
Your Grandfather’s Manned-Unmanned Teaming: Looking Back to Stay Ahead
Andy Macak
and
Benjamin Jensen
Germany’s New Defense Pragmatism is Not Measured in Euros
Niklas Helwig
Unspoken Legacy: The Perils of Letting Obama Off the Hook for Executive Overreach
Danny Sjursen
The Double-Edged Legacy of Obamawar
Rachel Tecott
Emergence: The Changing Character of Competition and Conflict
Benjamin Jensen
The Border Wall: Making Mexican Drug Cartels Great Again
Paul Kan
Political Airpower, Part III: Boots Off the Ground
Mike Benitez
and
Mike Pietrucha
Turkey is Tangled up in Terrorism
Aaron Stein
The Drone Threat to Israeli National Security
Michael Shkolnik
The Future of Air Superiority Part II: The 2030 Problem
Brig. Gen. Alex Grynkewich
Think Bigger: The Third Offset and Extending the Battlefield
Benjamin Jensen
Drone Proliferation Matters, But Not For the Reasons You Think
Michael Horowitz
,
Sarah E. Kreps
, and
Matthew Fuhrmann
The Trump Administration Will be Hawkish
Benjamin H. Friedman
13 Questions on the Age of Trump
Ryan Evans
The Navy Littorally Has a Drone Problem
Richard Kuzma
Why the Flying IED Threat Has Barely Started
Mark Jacobsen
The Democratization of Airpower: The Insurgent and the Drone
T.X. Hammes
Flying IEDs: The Next Big Threat?
Ulrike Franke
The Post-Coup Purge of Turkey’s Air Force
Mike Benitez
and
Aaron Stein
Multi-Domain Battle: A New Concept for Land Forces
Albert Palazzo
and
David P. McLain, III
I Saw the Future of Defense in California, And It’s Coming to a University Near You
Ryan Evans
How Does Jihadism End? Choosing Between Forever War and Nation Building
Paul Miller
Restrained Strategy, Lower Military Budgets
Benjamin H. Friedman
Capturing Flying Insects: A Machine Learning Approach to Targeting
Charlie Lewis
Waze for War: How the Army Can Integrate Artificial Intelligence
Benjamin Jensen
and
Ryan Kendall
The Looming Air Superiority Train Wreck
Peter Layton
Intervention and the Looming Choices of Autonomous Warfighting
Jules Hurst
Repairing the U.S.-Turkish Alliance
Aaron Stein
The Moral Hazard of Inaction in War
Charles Dunlap
Killer Robots: Our Ethics Aren’t the Problem
Kevin Schieman
OA-X: More Than Just Light Attack
Mike Benitez
The Threat is Here, It’s Just Distributed Unevenly: A2/AD and the Aircraft Carrier
Steve Blank
Beyond the Power of the Coin: The Three Currencies of Military Innovation
Brad DeWees
and
Enrique Oti
Digging into the Archeology of the Future
Matthew Kirschenbaum
This is Not the Killer Robot You’re Looking For: Dallas Police Used a Precision-Guided Munition to Kill the Shooter
Mike Pietrucha
The U.S. Military’s Protection Deficit Disorder
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
We Already Have an Arsenal Plane: It’s Called the B-52
T.J. May
and
Mike Pietrucha
We Took West Point Cadets to (Cyber) War
Matt Hutchison
,
Erick Waage
, and
Brent Chapman
From Strategy to Execution: Accelerating the Third Offset
Joshua Pavluk
and
August Cole
Why Did Washington Wait So Long To Take Its Drone War to Baluchistan?
Michael Kugelman
An Infantry Squad for the 21st Century
Jules Hurst
A Century After the Castles of Steel: Lessons from the Battle of Jutland
Seth Cropsey
Killing the Emir: What We Know About the Strike that Killed Mansour and What It Says About Pakistan and the Taliban
Sameer Lalwani
Signs of a Nascent Islamic State Province in the Philippines
Charlie Winter
The Price of Perpetual War
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
Go Big or Go Home: Applying the Full Force of the U.S. National Security Apparatus
Matthew Wein
Militarizing Musk
Jeffrey Becker
Is the Islamic State Trying to Draw Turkey into Syria?
S.G. Grimaldi
and
Selim Koru
#NatSec2016: Sanders and Trump Foreign Policies Explained, Sort Of
Alex Ward
The Catastrophic Success of the U.S. Air Force
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
How to De-Polarize and De-Personalize the U.S.-Turkish Relationship
Joshua Walker
and
Selma Bardakci
A European Perspective on Anti-Access/Area Denial and the Third Offset Strategy
Luis Simón
Low-Altitude Penetration and Electronic Warfare: Stuck on Denial, Part III
Mike Pietrucha
#BringBackOurGirls? Two Years After the Chibok Girls Were Taken, What Do We Know?
Elizabeth Pearson
and
Jacob Zenn
The Democratization of Science Ushers in a New World Order
Christopher Zember
Bernie Sanders’ Foreign Policy and Other Adventures on the Campaign Trail
Alex Ward
The “Bow Wave” and the Military Balance
Matthew Fay
A More Granular Look at Death by Drone
Melissa S. Hersh
and
Douglas A. Ollivant
Kurdish Militants and Turkey’s New Urban Insurgency
Aaron Stein
Sustaining the Third Offset Strategy in the Next Administration
Shawn Brimley
and
Loren DeJonge Schulman
If Reconciliation Fails in Afghanistan, What’s Plan B?
Michael Kugelman
The Rise of the Hybrid Warriors: From Ukraine to the Middle East
Douglas A. Ollivant
Attribution and Secrecy in Cyberspace
Michael Poznansky
and
Evan Perkoski
A Bleak Future for Army Aviation?
Crispin Burke
Imagine the Starling: Peak Fighter, the Swarm, and the Future of Air Combat
Joshua Steinman
Three Tips for Regionally Aligned Soldiers
Crispin Burke
No Replacement for Military Engagement and Forward Presence
John R. Deni
Surprisingly Sound Answers on the Future of the Army
Robert H. Scales
Preparing for the Next Big War
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
The Gulf War’s Anniversary: Reflections on 25 Years of U.S. Military Involvement in the Middle East
Jeffrey D. McCausland
3-D Printing Will Disrupt the World in Ways We Can Barely Imagine
T.X. Hammes
5 Questions on the Islamic State for GOP Presidential Candidates
Clint Watts
The Future is Now. Is the Army Ready?
Lee Quintas
Britain Released a New Strategy Document: What Does it Say?
Patrick Bury
Three Offsets for American Landpower Dominance
Paul Norwood
and
Benjamin Jensen
America’s Victory Disease Has Left it Dangerously Deluded
Mike Pietrucha
Technology and War: The Revolution that Never Arrived
Williamson Murray
Stripes to Stars: Enlisted Airmen Deserve to Become Officers Before They Become Pilots
Dave Blair
Weekend Reading: October 24–25 Edition
WOTR Staff
Can Obama Take Advice? Reflections on the Middle East and American Strategy
Timothy Hoyt
The Russian Intervention in Syria: Policy Options and Exit Strategies
Michael Kofman
Are Our Borders Better Than Your Borders?
Gregory Daddis
Russia’s Arsenal in Syria: What Do We Know?
Michael Kofman
Frogs of War: Explaining the New French Military Interventionism
Jean-Baptiste Jeangène Vilmer
and
Olivier Schmitt
Six Seductive Stories That Undercut the Army
Nadia Schadlow
Can America Compete with China’s Great Military Leap Forward?
Peter Dombrowski
What Do Lean Startups Have to Teach the Department of Defense?
Jeff McLean
Weekend Reading: 9/11 Anniversary Edition
WOTR Staff
In Defense of Crazy Talk: Why Bradford’s West Point Article is Worth Talking About
James Joyner
Weekend Reading: Labor Day Edition
WOTR Staff
Walk with the Devil: Evil Bargains and the Islamic State
Patrick Porter
Scholars Help Policymakers Know Their Tools
Dan Reiter
China’s Maginot Line
Robbie Gramer
and
Rachel Rizzo
Five Lessons on War From My Desert Shield/Storm
James Holmes
Why the Next Fighter Will Be Manned, and the One After That
Mike Pietrucha
The Fall of Heaven, Episode 5: Forlorn Hope
Stephen Armitage
Put the Marines Back in Submarines
David C. Fuquea
What DARPA’s Naval Drone Could Mean for the Balance of Power
David Blagden
5 Questions with Sen. John McCain on Defense Acquisition Reform and Drinking with Deng
Ryan Evans
No Patch For Incompetence: Our Cybersecurity Problem Has Nothing to Do With Cybersecurity
Adam Elkus
Bad Guys Know What Works: Asymmetric Warfare and the Third Offset
Benjamin Locks
The Future of Close Air Support is Not What the Air Force Thinks
Benjamin Fernandes
Getting Airpower Right: In Defense of the Long Range Strike Bomber
Robert Spalding
and
Adam Lowther
The War Against ISIL: In Search of a Viable Strategy
Michael Eisenstadt
The Fall of Heaven, Episode 2: The Midway Fleet
Stephen Armitage
Independent Long-Range Strike: A Failed Theory
T.X. Hammes
Close Air Support in 2030: Moving Beyond the A-10/F-35 Debate
Derek O'Malley
and
Andrew Hill
Short Legs Can’t Win Arms Races: Range Issues and New Threats to Aerial Refueling put U.S. Strategy at Risk
Greg Knepper
and
Peter W. Singer
Weekend Reading: May 15-17 Edition
Lauren Katzenberg
Time for a Private-Sector Pivot on Military Technology
Ben FitzGerald
and
Katrina Timlin
We Need an Independent Review of Drone Strikes
Larry Lewis
Autonomy Whether You Like It or Not
Matthew Hipple
Distributed Maritime Operations: Back to the Future?
Benjamin Jensen
Counter-Swarm: A Guide to Defeating Robotic Swarms
Paul Scharre
Commanding the Swarm
Paul Scharre
The Bush Wars: Ellis on America Fighting in the Philippines
Brett Friedman
The Human Element in Robotic Warfare
Paul Scharre
Unleash the Swarm: The Future of Warfare
Paul Scharre
The National Security Marketplace Must Become Stronger
Chris Taylor
The Seductiveness of Special Ops?
Michael Noonan
Why the New Bomber is a Good Investment
Robert Haddick
More Mayhem from Moscow’s Victory in Minsk
Thomas C. Moore
Bridging the Air Gap: The Coming “Third Offset”
John Costello
Rethinking Deep Strike in the 21st Century
T.X. Hammes
What to Look For in the DoD Budget
Paul Scharre
Full Text: State of the Union Address
Barack Obama
“Tallinn Is Burning” — A Dispatch from the Beginning of a Future War
Sydney J. Freedberg, Jr.
Not So Chickenhawk: Pushing Back Against Fallows
Michael Cohen
Answering the Pashtun Question
Myra MacDonald
Can Political Struggle against ISIL Succeed where Violence Cannot?
Maciej Bartkowski
Afghanistan: Coming to the Bad End of the Good War
Jack Fairweather
Ten Rules for Building Militias in an Era of Terrorism and Persistent Conflict
Patricio Asfura-Heim
Back to Night Raids: Counterinsurgency or Counterbureaucracy?
Rep. Michael G. Waltz
Weekend Reading: Post-Turkey Edition
Juliana Shafroth
Special Warfare: The Missing Middle in U.S. Coercive Options
Dan Madden
,
Dick Hoffmann
,
Michael W. Johnson
,
Fred T. Krawchuk
,
John E. Peters
,
Linda Robinson
, and
Abby Doll
To Save Money, Go Unmanned
Paul Scharre
and
Daniel Burg
The Great Revamp: 11 Trends Shaping Future Conflict
Frank Hoffman
and
Pat Garrett
How to Improve Drone Strike Policy
Diane Vavrichek
Why “Call of Duty” May Not Help Us Predict Future Wars
Adam Elkus
Maritime Mercenaries or Innovative Defense? Private Security & the Evolving Piracy Threat
John-Clark Levin
The Anti-ISIL strategy: Let’s whack another mole and hope it’s the last
Robert Egnell
The “No Boots on the Ground” Mantra is Strategic Foolishness
Richard L. Russell
In Pakistan a Soft Coup Stalls
Myra MacDonald
Eyeless in Gaza — Are we blind to an enduring reality of war?
Michael Vlahos
(Air) Striking the Right Balance in Iraq
Michael McBride
Israel and the Demise of “Mowing the Grass”
T.X. Hammes
Peace and War: The Space Between
Nadia Schadlow
(W)Archives: Back to the Future with INF (and SRINF)
Anne Gruner
How to Lose the Robotics Revolution
Paul Scharre
Afghanistan is not the next Iraq
Michael Kugelman
The Future of Warfare: Small, Many, Smart vs. Few & Exquisite?
T.X. Hammes
The Pakistan Army’s Foray into North Waziristan: Get Used to Disappointment
C. Christine Fair
Peering into America’s Military Blind Spots: High-Impact Long Shots
August Cole
and
Ben FitzGerald
China Undeterred and Unapologetic
Ely Ratner
Weekend Reading: June 20
Lauren Katzenberg
National Security Education: A User’s Manual
Audrey Kurth Cronin
The “Obama Speech” — I’m Over It
Lauren Katzenberg
WEEKEND READING: MEMORIAL DAY EDITION
Lauren Katzenberg
Who’s Killing Pakistan’s Shia and Why?
C. Christine Fair
Grounded: What the UCLASS RFP Fight Really Means
Andrew Metrick
Nine Questions about the Trans Sahara Counter Terrorism Partnership You Were Too Embarrassed to Ask
Lesley Warner
Weekend Reading: March 28
Usha Sahay
Four Pakistani Conspiracy Theories That Are Less Fictitious Than You’d Think
Michael Kugelman
Afghanistan’s Coming Darkness
Christopher Johnston
War Is A Video Game, And We’re Losing
Adam Elkus
What Does “Small Footprint” Really Mean?
Jonathan Schroden
Effective Persistent Engagement Must Be Whole-of-Government
Vera Zakem
Artificial Intelligence: War’s New Grammar
Adam Elkus
Let’s Slow Roll Any Moves Toward Crimean War II
Mark Safranski
A Reasonable Hope? Just Intervention in Syria Requires More than Good Intentions
Peter Munson
5 Questions with William Braniff on the State of Al-Qaeda
John Amble
The Pickup Truck Era of Warfare
Jack Mulcaire
Disruptive Defense: 3D Printing, Unmanned Systems and Bitcoin
Stephen Rodriguez
Medal Fatigue
James Joyner
Foreign Policy Issues in SOTU
John Amble
20YY: The Future of Warfare
Paul Scharre
and
Shawn Brimley
It’s Time to Abandon the Global Village Myth
Patrick Porter
Gates: A Realist in an Idealist World
Sean Kay
Dawn or Dusk for Unmanned Systems?
Samuel Brannen
General Kayani and U.S.-Pakistani Relations, 2007-2013
Thomas Lynch
Weekend Reading, Dec 6 – 8
Lauren Katzenberg
99 Red Balloons: How War with China Would Start
Matthew Hipple
Killing Hakimullah Mehsud
Stephen Tankel
Mr. Bin Laden, Are We to the Caliphate Yet?
Mark Stout
Maliki’s Visit: The Three S-Words
Douglas A. Ollivant
Striking Back on the Drone Debate: 3 Questions
Timothy Hoyt
Going Native: The Pakistanization of Al-Qaeda
Stephen Tankel
Saving Captain Swenson
Robert H. Scales
Droning America: The Tech Our Enemies Can Buy
T.X. Hammes
Blockading China: A Guide
Jason Glab
Weekend Reading, 20 Sept 2013
Lauren Katzenberg
Syria, Signaling, and Operation Infinite Reach
Usha Sahay
Earning Al Qaeda’s Respect
Mark Stout
Al Qaeda: Rockin’ the Levant like it’s 2006
Brian Fishman
Carrier Calculus: How Many Do We Need?
John T. Kuehn
Weekend Reading: August 16
Usha Sahay
Primer on Losing
Frank Hoffman
Not another al-Qaeda article
Stephen Tankel
Getting Our Money’s Worth: LCS vs Iver Huitfeldt-Class
T.X. Hammes
Ending Drone Strikes in Pakistan? Not so fast
Stephen Tankel
Let Strategy Drive Procurement
T.X. Hammes
Weekend Reading: Second Edition
Lauren Katzenberg
Pakistan’s Brutal Look at Itself
Mark Stout
