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Putting Armageddon on Autopilot: How Artificial Intelligence Could Make Nuclear Threats More Effective
Joshua Schwartz
and
Michael Horowitz
From Shin Bet to Mossad, Netanyahu Reshapes Israeli Intelligence
Ofek Riemer
,
Ehud Eiran
, and
Daniel F. Wajner
Trojan Spirit, the Army’s Intelligence Backbone, Needs a Successor
Mike Davenport
,
Stephen Fogarty
, and
Gus Taveras
Machine Overmatch: What Salt Typhoon Reveals About China’s Data-Centric Intelligence Strategy
Ashley Ruiz
Living and Working Overseas as an Intelligence Officer
Military Operational Thinking in an Age of Artificial Intelligence
Anders McD Sookermany
and
Thomas Slensvik
Behind the Green Door: Intelligence, Influence, and the Fight to Be Heard
Fighting an Economic War Without Fused Intelligence
Karyn Eliot
and
Jennifer Buss
Recalibrating U.S. Intelligence Strategy for an Uncertain Global Order
Alexander Bick
and
Philip Potter
Anchoring Intelligence: Ground Truth in an Age of Synthetic Deception
Nicholas Krohley
How Russia’s Intelligence Tradecraft Has Changed During the Russo-Ukrainian War
The Tech and Tradecraft Behind Open Source Intelligence
Ryan Curran
,
Tucker Moore
,
Scott Petry
, and
Ryan Evans
Beyond Decision Superiority: The Role of Intelligence in Innovation & Adaptation
Michael Borja
How to Take Command of the “Commander’s Intelligence Program”
Robert P. Ashley, Jr.
and
Thomas W. Spahr
America’s Biggest Cyber Crisis Isn’t Just Artificial Intelligence
Patrick Hearn
Intelligence, Strategy, and the Israeli-Iranian War
Joshua Rovner
The Intersection Between Artificial Intelligence and Nuclear Weapons
Joseph Wehmeyer
Peering into the Future of Artificial Intelligence in the Military Classroom
James Lacey
Rewind and Reconnoiter: Is Climate Security Out in the Cold in the U.S. Intelligence Community?
Erin Sikorsky
The U.S. Army, Artificial Intelligence, and Mission Command
Benjamin Jensen
and
Maj. Gen. Jake S. Kwon
What We Mean When We Call Something an Intelligence Failure
Gary Gomez
Marine Corps Intelligence
Joseph Wehmeyer
AI and Intelligence Analysis: Panacea or Peril?
Noah B. Cooper
Rethinking the Role of a Systems Integrator for Artificial Intelligence
Jim Rebesco
and
Anthony Manganiello
Integrating Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in the Marine Corps
Will McGee
Artificial Intelligence and Nuclear Stability
Michael Depp
and
Paul Scharre
Embrace the Nerd: Dungeons & Dragons and Military Intelligence
Ian Strebel
and
Matt McKenzie
Towards a More Constructive Conversation Between Policymakers and Intelligence Analysts
Aaron Stein
Lessons From A White House Intelligence Briefer
Beth Sanner
Toward a More Constructive Conversation between Policymakers and Intelligence Analysts
John Mohr
The Iraq War’s Intelligence Failures Are Still Misunderstood
Samuel Helfont
Pipeline as a Product: How Project Linchpin Plans to Deliver Artificial Intelligence for the Army
Nick Bono
and
Bharat Patel
Special Operations Forces Require Greater Proficiency in Artificial Intelligence
Kelley Jhong
Building An Open-Source Intelligence Buyer’s Club
Aki Peritz
Intelligence and War: Does Secrecy Still Matter?
Joshua Rovner
Intelligence and the War in Ukraine: Part 2
Neveen Shaaban Abdalla
,
Philip H. J. Davies
,
Kristian Gustafson
,
Dan Lomas
, and
Steven Wagner
Is Artificial Intelligence Made in Humanity’s Image? Lessons for an AI Military Education
Vincent J. Carchidi
Intelligence and the War in Ukraine: Part 1
Neveen Shaaban Abdalla
,
Philip H. J. Davies
,
Kristian Gustafson
,
Dan Lomas
, and
Steven Wagner
Intelligence Disclosures in the Ukraine Crisis and Beyond
Jake Harrington
Can Intelligence Tell How Far Putin Will Go?
Calder Walton
Keeping Pace in the Gray Zone: Three Recommendations for the U.S. Intelligence Community
Jake Harrington
and
Riley McCabe
A Novel Approach to Intelligence
David McCloskey
Defense Department and Intelligence Community Release Major Climate Reports
Shane Mason
Adapting Intelligence to the New Afghanistan
Thomas Spahr
The Air Force Learning System and Intelligence Missions
Jonathan Freeman
China’s Silos: New Intelligence, Old Problems
James Cameron
Think Small: Why the Intelligence Community Should Do Less about New Threats
Joshua Rovner
Covert Action, Espionage, and the Intelligence Contest in Cyberspace
Michael Poznansky
Analyzing the Climate Security Threat: Key Actions for the U.S. Intelligence Community
Erin Sikorsky
Intelligence and the Biden Administration
Carmen Medina
,
David Priess
,
Mark Stout
, and
Ryan Evans
Can Biden Bring Intelligence Back?
Zack Cooper
,
Melanie Marlowe
, and
Christopher Preble
Reflections on a Lifetime in Intelligence
John Brennan
,
Adm. (Ret.) William McRaven
, and
Stephen Slick
Intelligence in the Biden Administration
Joshua Rovner
Israeli National Intelligence Culture and the Response to COVID-19
Itai Shapira
What If Sherman Kent Was Wrong? Revisiting the Intelligence Debate of 1949
Zachery Tyson Brown
Artificial Intelligence for Medical Evacuation in Great-Power Conflict
Phillip R. Jenkins
,
Brian J. Lunday
, and
Matthew J. Robbins
The Limits of Intuition: Army Intelligence Should Embrace Analytic Tradecraft Standards
James Kwoun
The Promise and Risks of Artificial Intelligence: A Brief History
Rebecca Slayton
Chinese Debates on the Military Utility of Artificial Intelligence
Michael Dahm
‘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
Getting Smart on Pandemics: Intelligence in the Wake of COVID-19
Robert Chesney
,
Paul Pope
,
Stephen Slick
, and
Calder Walton
What Can the Picatinny Rail Teach Us About Artificial Intelligence?
Hans Vreeland
Intelligence Community Shakeup
Tre Hester
The ABCs of AI-Enabled Intelligence Analysis
Iain J. Cruickshank
The Ethical Upside to Artificial Intelligence
Ray Reeves
Artificial Intelligence, Foresight, and the Offense-Defense Balance
Ben Garfinkel
and
Allan Dafoe
The Real Value of Artificial Intelligence in Nuclear Command and Control
Philip Reiner
and
Alexa Wehsener
Getting Back to Basics: How to Avoid a Naval Intelligence Jutland
Claude Berube
Don’t Believe Your Eyes (or Ears): The Weaponization of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Deepfakes
Joe Littell
Terrorist Groups, Artificial Intelligence, and Killer Drones
Jacob Ware
The Devil You Know: Trust in Military Applications of Artificial Intelligence
Charles Clark
and
Connor S. McLemore
Will Artificial Intelligence Imperil Nuclear Deterrence?
Rafael Loss
and
Joseph Johnson
Cyber War as an Intelligence Contest
Joshua Rovner
Coercive Disclosure: Israel’s Weaponization of Intelligence
Ofek Riemer
and
Daniel Sobelman
South Korea Terminates Longstanding Intelligence-Sharing Pact With Japan
Bobby Valentine
A Guide to Not Killing or Mutilating Artificial Intelligence Research
Eric Lofgren
Coming to Terms with Anticipatory Intelligence
Josh Kerbel
Artificial Intelligence Meets Bureaucratic Politics
Andrew Imbrie
In Search of Ideas: The National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence Wants You
Robert Work
and
Eric Schmidt
I, Black Box: Explainable Artificial Intelligence and the Limits of Human Deliberative Processes
Molly Kovite
Is the Air Force Serious about Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance?
Robert Stiegel
Targeting the Islamic State, Or Why the Military Should Invest in Artificial Intelligence
Hans Vreeland
The Problems of a Militarized Foreign Policy for America’s Premier Intelligence Agency
David Oakley
Horns of a Dilemma: Seeing Beyond the Horizon – Intelligence Challenges in a Rapidly Changing World
Susan Gordon
and
Stephen Slick
A Different Use for Artificial Intelligence in Nuclear Weapons Command and Control
Jaganath Sankaran
The 26 Words That Guard the Open Internet and Open-Source Intelligence
Jeff Kosseff
Building Modern Screw-Sloops? Strategic Choices about Artificial Intelligence in Defense
Nina Kollars
and
Doyle Hodges
Policy and You: A Guide for Intelligence Analysts
Brian Katz
Artificial Intelligence and the Military: Technology Is Only Half the Battle
Michael Horowitz
and
Casey Mahoney
What Would You Say You Do Here? Redefining the Role of Intelligence in the Information Age
Zachery Tyson Brown
Horns of a Dilemma: Intelligence and National Security Policymaking – A Conversation with Congressman Joaquin Castro
Joaquin Castro
and
Robert Chesney
Intelligence and You: A Guide for Policymakers
Brian Katz
Boxed In: The Bad Side of Best Practices in Intelligence
Debora Pfaff
A Very British AI Revolution in Intelligence is Needed
Keith Dear
An Air Force ‘Way of Swarm’: Using Wargaming and Artificial Intelligence to Train Drones
Clayton Schuety
and
Lucas Will
Who is the Admiral Rickover of Naval Artificial Intelligence?
Connor S. McLemore
and
Eric Jimenez
Beyond Killer Robots: How Artificial Intelligence Can Improve Resilience in Cyber Space
Michael Sulmeyer
and
Kathryn Dura
U.S. Intelligence Should Embrace Sasse’s Cyber Solarium Commission
Steve Slick
But First, Infrastructure: Creating the Conditions for Artificial Intelligence to Thrive in the Pentagon
Richard Kuzma
Modern Solution, Ancient Problem: Measuring Military Effectiveness in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Brad DeWees
Intellectual Preparation for Future War: How Artificial Intelligence Will Change Professional Military Education
Mick Ryan
Horns of a Dilemma: Will Artificial Intelligence Change Everything? TNSR Vol 1 Issue 3
Michael Horowitz
and
Ryan Evans
The Dawn of Artificial Intelligence in Naval Warfare
Connor S. McLemore
and
Hans Lauzen
Wargaming with Athena: How to Make Militaries Smarter, Faster, and More Efficient with Artificial Intelligence
Benjamin Jensen
,
Scott Cuomo
, and
Chris Whyte
At a Crossroads, Part II: No More Shadows: The Future of Intelligence Oversight in Congress
Tommy Ross
WOTR Podcast: The Making of a Career Intelligence Official: A Conversation with Michael P. Dempsey
Michael P. Dempsey
and
Ryan Evans
An Inflection Point for Scientific and Technical Intelligence
Brian Holmes
and
Max Greenlee
Horns of a Dilemma: Staying Ahead of the Curve in the Intelligence World
Michele L. Malvesti
,
John McLaughlin
,
Nicholas Rasmussen
, and
Norman Roule
Horns of a Dilemma: When the Director of National Intelligence Came to Austin: Dan Coats on Intel in the 21st Century
Dan Coats
Was the 2016 Election an Intelligence Failure?
Joshua Rovner
Buggy Whips and Segways: Historical Misinnovation in National Security and Intelligence Technology
Joseph Caddell
and
Robert Stiegel
Discovering Soviet Missiles in Cuba: How Intelligence Collection Relates to Analysis and Policy
Joseph Caddell
The Red Queen Problem: Innovation in the Defense Department and Intelligence Community
Steve Blank
From U-2 to CORONA: How Intelligence Collection Norms Evolve
John Sislin
and
Joseph Caddell
Israel, Intelligence Sharing, and the Two-State Solution
Ryan Evans
The Intelligence Costs of Underestimating Russia: A Warning from History
Michael S. Goodman
and
David Gioe
Predicting Corporate Intelligence Agencies in the 1960s
Brian Nussbaum
A Heterodox Conclusion on Intelligence Failures in the Age of Cyberwarfare
Uri Bar-Joseph
Will Team Trump Politicize Intelligence?
Joshua Rovner
Giving Intelligence Analysts Their Voices Back: The Case for Analyst Perspectives
Derek Grossman
Pathos, Where Art Thou? Intelligence Analysis and Ethical Persuasion
Brian Holmes
Waze for War: How the Army Can Integrate Artificial Intelligence
Benjamin Jensen
and
Ryan Kendall
Why Tradecraft Will Not Save Intelligence Analysis
Peter Mattis
A Higher Standard: Communicating Technical Intelligence
Brian Holmes
and
Max Greenlee
The Battle of Midway: The Complete Intelligence Story
Mark Munson
More Art than Science: Intelligence and Technical Topics
Brian Holmes
and
Max Greenlee
The Ghosts of Soviets Past: Two Army Intelligence Officers Explore an Abandoned Cold War Military City in Latvia
Adam Maisel
and
Will DuVal
Israel’s Intelligence Wars
Shay Hershkovitz
Jesus as a Security Risk: Intelligence and Repression in the Roman Empire
Rose Mary Sheldon
The U.S. Intelligence Community Wants Disruptive Change as Long as it’s Not Disruptive
Josh Kerbel
We Don’t Know What to Call Russian Military Intelligence and That May Be a Problem
Mark Galeotti
China’s Military Intelligence System is Changing
Peter Mattis
The Ignorance of Intelligence Agencies
Williamson Murray
Is U.S. Intelligence Analysis as Good as It Gets?
Mark Lowenthal
and
Ronald Marks
On the Politicization of Intelligence
Robert Tomes
Special Operations, Intelligence, and Airpower: A Lethal Triumvirate
Brent Bahl
A Guide to Chinese Intelligence Operations
Peter Mattis
China’s New Intelligence War Against the United States
Peter Mattis
Intelligence Data Management: There’s No App For That … But There Should Be
Anonymous
Was David Drugeon a French Intelligence Agent?
Daveed Gartenstein-Ross
A Note From an Intelligence Insider: Speaking Truth to Power
Timothy D. Kilbourn
Intelligence at the End of Empire
Mark Stout
Broken Mirrors Episode 5: The Operation of Intelligence in a Democracy
Marc Tyrrell
and
Tom Quiggin
Artificial Intelligence: War’s New Grammar
Adam Elkus
Strategic Surprise, Intelligence and Terrorism: Developing a Tolerance for Disaster
Marc Tyrrell
and
Tom Quiggin
Intelligence Arms Control: Dead on Arrival?
Mark Stout
Public Views of Intelligence Collection: The Implications for International Politics
Mark Stout
The Risks of Downplaying China’s Military
Thomas Shugart
War: Watt Is It Good For?
Harry Krejsa
and
Phoebe Benich
China’s Military Says AI Can’t Replace Commanders. Xi Is Testing That
Jaehwan Lim
Managed Instability: Why the Wars Against Iran and Ukraine Can Go On and On and On…
Alex Kolbin
Proving the Negative: Three Warnings from Arms Control for the Age of AI
Mark Daley
AI and the Risks of Tearing Down an Old System
Jordan Kane
and
Hamza Chaudhry
Inside Brazil’s 3D-Printed Gun Supply Chain
Carlos Eduardo da Silva
The Tension Between Collectivism and Individualism in Ukraine
WOTR Staff
A Life in Army Special Operations, from Desert Storm to the Next War
Francis Beaudette
and
Ryan Evans
Blanchard’s Lathe and the Long Arc of American Manufacturing
Aubry Eaton
What Have We Learned from the 9/11 Wars? Not Nearly Enough
Jonathan Schroden
2026 and All That: Another Benchmark Year in Royal Navy Decline
Steven Wills
Russia’s Blurry Line Between Science and Sabotage Beneath the Ocean’s Surface
Nurlan Aliyev
The Next School of War: Educating for Tomorrow’s Battlefield
Brig. Gen. Matthew Tracy
and
Benjamin Jensen
The White House Is Right on AI. Now Let Defenders Use It.
Cory Ondrejka
Is Ukraine Drifting Towards Groupthink on European Integration?
WOTR Staff
What America Learned About Democracy When It Gained Stealth
T. Nelson Collier
Why Military Cooperation in the Indian Ocean Still Falls Short
Rebecca Strating
and
Arzan Tarapore
How Can U.S. Special Operations Forces Help Defeat China on Taiwan?
Brian Petit
Attacks, Deals, and Discontent
WOTR Staff
The Blood Price: In Israel, Military Sacrifice Is Becoming Political Power
Guy Ziv
Beyond the Output Trap: Haiti and the Future of International Stabilization
Philippe de Bard
Why Egypt’s Opinion of Ukraine Matters, Now and Later
WOTR Staff
How to Stop China from Freeriding on American AI
Ryan Fedasiuk
Possible Is Not Plausible: How Nightmare Scenarios Hijack Unconventional Weapons Policy
April Arnold
and
Al Mauroni
Can Cyber Operations Be Deterred? What Wargames Reveal
Ruby Booth
and
Andrew W. Reddie
How Orbán’s Fall Changed Serbia’s Political Future
Liudmila Listrovaya
Taiwan’s Tech Hurdles Threaten Military Capability and Potential Coalition Defense
Fanny Chao
and
Sam Bresnick
Why Norway and Finland Should Preserve Two of Europe’s Most Important Security Arrangements
Douglas Peifer
Global Risks Heating Up
WOTR Staff
Before a Cyber Force, Fix Cyber Governance
Justin Hardy
America Needs an Off-Ramp Between Doing Nothing and Shutting AI Down
Martijn Rasser
Total War on Taipei: China Explores Elevating Cognitive Effects into Its Vision of Warfare
Howard Wang
and
Nathan Beauchamp-Mustafaga
How the War with Iran is Shaping Key U.S. Relations Beyond the Middle East
Jenny Town
,
Tanvi Madan
,
Peter Dickinson
,
Gesine Weber
, and
Emma Salisbury
Before Q-Day: The Race to Quantum First
Mauritz Kop
and
Joe Federici
The Make-or-Buy Line has Moved
Jacob Green
The Fedorov Dismissal: On Trust, Technology, and Turnover
WOTR Staff
The Fedorov Dismissal: On Trust, Technology, and Turnover
WOTR Staff
The Blood Bank and the Logistics of Wartime Medicine
Naveen Krishnan
Reading through the Lines of the FY2027 NDAA
Madeline Field
The Peace That Redistributes War: What Camp David Reveals About Lebanon and Iran
Ahmed Saber Abbas
Academia’s Critical Role in Developing an Economic Security Workforce
Jennifer Buss
One Size Doesn’t Fit All: The Many Faces of Africa’s Foreign Fighters
Austin C. Doctor
MOLLE, PALS, and the Empty Loops of America’s Civil-Military Divide
Jim Perkins
Before the Next Mythos Moment: The Case for an AI Threat Fusion Center
Rebecca Hersman
A Return to Mass: Russian Force Expansion in the War with Ukraine
Greg Whisler
and
Michael Kofman
The Pentagon’s AI Strategy Has a Funding Problem
Adam Lackey
Victory for al-Qaeda’s Affiliate in Mali Would be a Catastrophe
Fulan Nasrullah
Somali Pirates Are Back — But the Coalition That Beat Them Isn’t Coming
Benoit Lefevre
Gathering Clouds: Building Digital Strategic Depth in the Compute Age
Blake Herzinger
Sinews of War at Sea: The Armed Services Need a Common Watercraft Family
Peter Mitchell
and
John Curl
A Catholic Security Scholar’s Case for Responsible Military AI
Craig Douglas Albert
Happy 250th Birthday, America!
WOTR Staff
The Integrated Circuit and the Future of American AI Leadership
Sarah Kreps
Misguided and Misunderstood: Trump’s Approach to U.S. Troops in Europe
Benjamin H. Friedman
and
Moritz S. Graefrath
The Blind Spots in Chinese Military Studies
Lyle Morris
The Hizballah Predicament: Why An Integrated Approach Is Necessary
Anthony Elghossain
and
Grace Wermenbol
The Three Nevers: To Invade Taiwan, China Would Have to Make Military History Thrice
Jay McVann
Mapping America’s Domestic Drone Supply Chain
Cogs of War Staff
Lost in Translation: How A Premier Chinese Think Tank Views U.S.-Chinese Competition
Zenel Garcia
The Defense Industrial Alliance Washington Is Throwing Away
Justin Massie
and
Srdjan Vucetic
The Art of Statecraft in an Age of Strategic Failure
Frank Hoffman
Not Imaginary: The Deterrence Gap is Real and America Needs Low-Yield Nukes
Paul Amato
The 2026 War on the Rocks Summer Fiction Reading List
WOTR Staff
Nuclear Stability in the Age of AI
Paul Scharre
and
Michael Depp
Designing Drones for Africa
Maxwell Maduka
A Claim to Lead, a Hesitation to Act: Germany’s New Military Strategy
Roderich Kiesewetter
Good Medicine Is Combat Power: Clinical Innovation and the Lessons of the Russo-Ukrainian War
John Quinn
The Fall of Fortress Singapore: Three Lessons from the Collapse of Britain’s Great Asian Bastion
Iskander Rehman
How Japan Could Co-Produce the Navy’s Future Fleet
Jeff Kucik
,
Noah Moyer
, and
Darlene Onuorah
The Gulf Arab States Need a Shield Built for Limited Trust
Mohammed Alotaibi
The Evolution of Ukraine’s Asymmetrical Combat Tactics
Scott Sweetow
Wargaming for Improved Acquisition: What Does It Take?
C. Travis Reese
Dusting a Dirt Road: How The United States Can Break the Cycle of Failing Military Infrastructure
Jason McMahon
Cascading Failure: The Spanish Navy’s Reserve Squadron and the Tragedy of Unpreparedness
Ned Breen
From Pyongyang to Primorsk: When Sanctions Evasion Becomes System Design
Olivia Vassalotti
What Beirut’s Port Scanners Miss About Militant Supply Chains
Karim Chebaklo
The Pentagon’s AI Edge Is Being Distilled Away
Sebastian Elbaum
Forged in a Knife Fight: China’s Brutal Domestic AI Competition
David Lin
Revisiting The Importance of the Battle of Midway
BJ Armstrong
The Rain in Spain Falls Harder on Ukraine: Rethinking the Spanish Civil War Analogy
Andrew Mitchell
Does the Quad Still Matter?
Lisa Curtis
,
Sameer Lalwani
,
Courtney Stewart
, and
William Chou
The Toll Booth at the Throat of World Trade
Sujit Raman
Deterring Russia Beneath the Waves: Securing NATO’s Critical Undersea Infrastructure
Samu Paukkunen
and
James Black
How America Lost Its Most Important Defense Tech Habit
Jack Barry
Contriving Imaginary Gaps in Nuclear Deterrence
Jay Tilden
Control Without Ownership: How China’s Party-Business Networks Dominate Indonesia’s Mineral Supply Chains
Ahmad Syarif
The Road to Space Runs through the Poles
Rebecca Pincus
and
David Marsh
Leading in the Dark: How Submarine Commanders Think Under Uncertainty
Paulo Frade
An Inconvenient Reality: Climate-Preparedness Cuts Are Lethality Cuts
Caitlin Irby
Rebuilding American Manufacturing: A Keystone for Economic Statecraft
Mark Rosenblatt
Inside Ukraine’s Battlefield Innovation Loop
Catarina Buchatskiy
and
Viktoriia Honcharuk
The Pentagon Still Cannot Manage Cyber Talent at Scale. Here’s the Fix.
Henry Phillips
China’s AI Governance Offensive Threatens U.S. Tech Leadership
Audrye Wong
and
Ryan Fedasiuk
The Operational Case Against Israel’s Gaza Campaign
Andy Milburn
A Check-In On North Korea and Russia’s Wartime Partnership
Choong-Koo Lee
The Navy Needs Precise Mass and Here Is How to Get There
Michael Horowitz
When Refusal Doesn’t Matter: Operation Epic Fury and the Erosion of Host Nation Consent
Bo Ram Kwon
The Recognition Question: Somaliland, Israeli Security Geometry, and the Red Sea Power Struggle
Iqra Salah
and
Halkano Boru
Regulatory Friendly Fire: How ITAR Undermines the Alliance It Was Built to Protect
Gregory Kausner
Army Aviation’s Wasted Decade: Lessons for the Next Generation of Drone Integration
Jake Steckler
Missiles Aren’t Strategy: Lessons From Iran for a Pacific Air War
David Deptula
and
Jahara Matisek
Restrain and Hedge: A New U.S. Nuclear Strategy for a Two-Peer World
Tyler Bowen
South Korea’s 500,000 Drone Warriors Will Be a Hollow Force
Min-Cheol Jung
Maximalist Demands, Victory Day, and a Summit
WOTR Staff
Cyber Operations Aren’t Slow — Our Thinking Is
Timothy N. Neslony
The Missing Navies: The Hormuz Crisis and the Limits of America’s Indo-Pacific Partnerships
Jean-Loup Samaan
Pakistan’s New Logic of Limited War May Not Keep War Limited
Muhammad Faisal
,
Sahar Khan
, and
Haleema Saadia
Closing the Gap? Italy Sets New Rules for Its First National Security Strategy Amidst Old Obstacles
Lorenzo Termine
,
Gabriele Natalizia
, and
Laura Donnini
As Adversaries Integrate, U.S. Partners Bypass Washington
Ariane Tabatabai
and
John Drennan
Could Russia Follow the “Hormuz Playbook” in the Baltic and Black Seas?
Miro Sedlák
The Pentagon Needs a Playbook for Munitions Surge Production
Bryce Loidolt
What 300 Emails Say About Americans and the Army’s Direct Commission Program
Ted Delicath
The Cop on the Corner Is Our First Line of Defense: Local Police and the Surveillance Detection Gap
Matt White
Between Intent and Capability: Assessing the Lack of Iranian Attacks on the U.S. Homeland
Matthew Levitt
Abandoned and Ungoverned: Lebanon’s Palestinian and Syrian Populations and the Emerging Radicalization Landscape
Jack Schwartz
Why Kim Jong Un Won’t Pick Up the Phone and What to Do About It
Jonathan Corrado
Economic Fury and Claims of Victory
WOTR Staff
Human Geography: The Strategic Edge in a Complex World
Judd Devermont
Western Withdrawal, Jihadist Expansion: How the Sahel Became Ground Zero for Global Terrorism
James Paterson
The Mountaintop Mirage: Why Xi’s Military Purges Cannot Produce the Force He Wants
Christopher Nye
The Strange Rise and Fall of Russia’s Crowd Sourced Defense Industry
Samuel Bendett
and
Michael Kofman
Confronting the Past and Present, Lessons from Chornobyl
WOTR Staff
The Importance of the Battle of Savo Island
John Severini
and
Stephen Biddle
Seeing the Cyber in Economic Statecraft
Jason Blessing
Europe Might Sit Out In An Indo-Pacific War — But It Can’t Escape the Fallout
Paul van Hooft
Resilience Without Capacity: The Fatal Flaw in America’s New Cyber Strategy
Jesse Humpal
,
Alexander Noyes
, and
Emily Valentine
The United States Is Repeating Its Silicon Mistake with Gallium Nitride
Pradyot Yadav
I’m Sorry, Dave. I’m Afraid I Can’t De-escalate: On (AI) Wargaming and Nuclear War
Ankit Panda
and
Andrew Reddie
What the War Against Iran Means for the U.S.-South Korean Alliance
Jihoon Yu
When Identity Means Everything
WOTR Staff
The F-35 Is a Masterpiece Built for the Wrong War
John G. Ferrari
and
Dillon Prochnicki
Iran and the Indispensable Broker: How Pakistan Outmaneuvers India on the World Stage
Farah Jan
How to Counter the Houthis Without Strengthening Them
Erin K. McFee
and
Gillian Gordon
Anthropic’s Nuclear Bomb
Naveen Krishnan
A Fragile Ceasefire with Iran and the Price of Ending the War
Federico Manfredi Firmian
and
Anthony Wanis-St. John
Rethinking Security Cooperation in the Age of Commercial Tech
Jarrett Lane
The End of Managed Escalation in the Gulf
Robert Mason
and
Rikard Jalkebro
Operationalizing Economic Statecraft: A New Imperative for the Pentagon
Anita Kellogg
Bonus In Brief: Choke Point: The Risks and Realities of America’s Iran Blockade
Emma Salisbury
,
Jennifer Parker
,
Alex Vatanka
,
Yun Sun
, and
Alessio Patalano
Examining the Cracks and the Cement in the Sino-Russian Relationship
John Stanko
and
Spenser A. Warren
Silent Killers, Not Signals: Why States Use Poison in Assassinations
Naomi Rio
and
Glenn Cross
The Demise of Strategic Planning in Israel
Shimon Arad
The Bromine Chokepoint: How Strife in the Middle East Could Halt Production of the World’s Memory Chips
Alvin Camba
Tactical Success, Strategic Failure? Washington Walks the Path to Defeat in Iran
Ryan Evans
Bankova, Budapest, and Bunnies
WOTR Staff
A Closed Strait of Hormuz Risks a Global Food Security Crisis
Morgan D. Bazilian
,
Gabriel Collins
, and
Jahara Matisek
Regime Change in Iran, Underpants Gnomes, and the Phase II Problem
Denis Prieur
Iran’s Other Front: The War Over the Internet
Sara Bazoobandi
What is Strategic Rivalry? Why Should We Care?
Antulio J. Echevarria
Iran’s Asymmetric Counterair Campaign: Attacking the U.S. Air Force’s Nests and Eggs
Maximilian K. Bremer
and
Kelly A. Grieco
How NATO’s Air Defense Future Is Unfolding
Shaan Shaikh
How This Precision Weapon Reengineered Modern War
Jeffrey Stern
The Campaign Ends at the Breach: Lessons from Ukraine on Why Armies Fail
Michael Carvelli
The Hidden System Turning Chinese Tech Companies into Military Suppliers
Charles Sun
Closing the Air and Missile Defense Gap in the Indo-Pacific
Christopher J. Watterson
and
Peter J. Dean
Iran’s Anti-Access and Area Denial Strategy Is Cruder Than China’s But Still Dangerous
Anil Raman
The Age of Unlearning: How Democracies Lost Their Grip on Strategic Time
Beniamino Irdi
The Limits of Trump’s Regime Capture Strategy from Venezuela to Cuba
Charles Larratt-Smith
How the War with Iran Ends
Omar Mohammed
The Global Ripple Effect of the War in Iran
WOTR Staff
From Filament to Firepower: 3D Printing’s Impact on Warfare
Travis Veillon
The Folly of Seizing Kharg Island
Bilal Y. Saab
China’s AI Is Spreading Fast. Here’s How to Stop the Security Risks
Ryan Fedasiuk
The Arsenal as the Battlefield: The War on Iran and the Return of Counter-Industrial Targeting
Tyler Hacker
,
Greg Malandrino
, and
Evan Braden Montgomery
Holding Water Hostage
Ed Cullinane
,
Ginger Matchett
,
Marcus D. King
,
David Michel
, and
Gabriel Collins
The U.S. Military Risks Letting Contractors Define How It Sees the Battlefield
David Kamien
The Trump Administration Had No Plan for the War with Iran
Sen. Ruben Gallego
Every Soldier a Software Builder: Governing the Army’s New Digital Workforce
Anthony A. Joyce
The Importance of the Raid of Nassau
BJ Armstrong
Punish Russia for Helping Iran Target the U.S. Military
Ryan Evans
The Pentagon Wants Dual-Use Innovation. Patent Law Might Punish It.
Tony Rowles
10 Ukrainians Humbled Two NATO Battalions. When Will NATO Wake Up?
Bryan Daugherty
How Are Iran’s Partnerships with Belarus and Russia Holding Up During War?
Jack Roush
Five Wargames Every Force Design Process Needs
Nathaniel Ambler
,
Maegen Nix
, and
Travis Reese
Proxy Pressure on Iran: The Promise and Pitfalls of Arming the Kurds
Jonathan Schroden
and
Zack Gold
Follow the Money: Finance and the Future of Allied Economic Statecraft
Georgie Skipper
The Next Transformation of U.S. Shipbuilding
Eric Chewning
The Battlefield is the Next Betting Market
Jonathan Walberg
Conflict and Consequences
WOTR Staff
Why Did the United States Lift Sanctions on Assad’s Chemical Weapons Scientists?
Gregory D. Koblentz
,
Rebecca Earnhardt
, and
Joel Keep
The Inevitability of Chinese Military Purges
Rob Pierce
Islamic State Containment Is Collapsing in Syria
Kelly Kassis
Syria and the Islamic State: Analyzing America’s Departure
Thanassis Cambanis
Double-Edged Swords: How Military Purges Shape Authoritarian Appetite for War
Jun Sudduth
Bailing Out Russia for “Peace” Is a Losing Proposition
Emma Isabella Sage
and
Savannah Taylor
Drinking from the Bitter Chalice in the Middle East, Again
Steven Simon
Open War at the Durand Line: Can Pakistan’s Escalation Compel a Taliban Recalculation?
Amira Jadoon
Investing in Women is Investing in the Future
WOTR Staff
The Danger of Vibe Patriotism in Defense Tech
Ben Buchheim-Jurisson
Don’t Count Launches: Misreading Iran’s Drone Capacity
Kelly A. Grieco
Military Senior Service Colleges Require Reform, But There Sure Are Some Bad Ideas Out There
Bradford T. Duplessis
Testing Denial: The Philippine Alliance in America’s First Island Chain Strategy
Patrick Cronin
and
Nathaniel Uy
A Blank Check for Israel and the War with Iran
Farah Jan
How China Views the Cognitive Element of a War for Taiwan
Koichiro Takagi
Lessons from Ukraine for Defending Gulf Airspace from Shaheds
Dimko Zhluktenko
Gaza and the Logic of High-Intensity Urban Warfare
Danny Orbach
,
Jonathan Boxman
,
Yagil Henkin
, and
Jonathan Braverman
Fighting for Relevance Isn’t Everything
WOTR Staff
We Were Right About Havana Syndrome
Marc Polymeropoulos
AI-Ready Biodata Is America’s Next Strategic Infrastructure
Michelle Holko
,
John Wilbanks
, and
Sam Howell
AI and the New Blueprint of Terrorism
Brian Fishman
Why a $1.5 Trillion Defense Budget Request Might Slow the Pentagon’s Reform Efforts
Matt Vallone
The Bay of Bengal Flank: India’s Three-Front Dilemma and Its Implications for Taiwan
Wolfgang Petermann
What Recent Military Operations Signal About Trump’s Grand Strategy
Joshua Rovner
The Velocity Gap Between Pakistan and India
Anil Raman
Missed Signals and Middle East Shockwaves
WOTR Staff
Washington Built the AI Infrastructure AUKUS Needs — Then Locked Allies Out
Javaid Iqbal Sofi
The Deluge, the Paper Cup, and Washington’s Lack of Urgency on Guam
Michael W. Cruz
A Proxy Without a Purpose: Hizballah and the Iran Crisis
Faysal Itani
and
Dania F. Arayssi
All Too Quiet on the Western Neuroenhancement Front
Lukasz Kamienski
Why Trump’s Criticism of Maliki Strengthens Him in Iraq
Yasir Kuoti
and
Shamiran Mako
AI Is Being Misunderstood as a Breakthrough in Planning. It’s Not.
Christopher Denzel
Agentic AI and the Pentagon’s Integration Challenge
Aaron Brown
,
Jags Kandasamy
,
Ben Van Roo
, and
Ryan Evans
Breaking Europe’s Trans-Atlantic Habit: The End of the Senior Partner Myth
Moritz S. Graefrath
and
Gesine Weber
The Importance of St. Clair’s Defeat
Wayne E. Lee
Economic Statecraft and the Federal Institutional Architecture
William Norris
Three Short Tales on War Kori Schake Wants You to Read
Kori Schake
Power, Paranoia, and the People’s Liberation Army
Jonathan Czin
,
Peter Mattis
,
Dennis Wilder
,
Joel Wuthnow
, and
Ryan Evans
When GPS Goes Dark: Building a Force That Navigates from Orbit to Seabed
Jesse Hamel
Breaking Tehran’s Grip on Baghdad
Keith Phillips
and
Stewart Welch
China Now Finds Itself in al-Qaeda’s Crosshairs
Colin Clarke
and
Lucas Webber
The Greatest Threat to Acquisition Transformation Is Fear
Bonnie Evangelista
Panama’s Hidden Chokepoint: Tocumen and the Convergence of Mobility Power
Ron MacCammon
Running to Stand Still: Russian Nuclear Modernization after New START
Michael Kofman
Will These Four Defense Innovation Reforms Improve Industry’s Lot?
Madeline Field
Gilded Capability: Overinvestment and the Survivability Paradox
Trevor Phillips-Levine
,
Andrew Tenbusch
, and
Walker Mills
Biodefense Blind Spot: Why Washington Confuses Pandemics with Bioweapons
Junaid Nabi
Is the Age of Drones Really the Age of Poor Maneuver?
Antonio Salinas
and
Jason P. LeVay
Beyond the Missile: A Cost-Per-Effect Blueprint for the Future Force
Erik Schuh
Sun Tzu in the Supply Chain: The New Face of Economic War With China
Tim Welter
and
Margaret McWeeney
Skipping to the Endgame on the Iran Strategy
Richard Nephew
The Chinese Yoke: Russia’s Return to Vassalship
Matthew Zalewski
How the United States Lost a Nuclear Device and Recovered an Indian Friend
Paul McGarr
Turkey’s Drone Industry at a Strategic Crossroads
Doga Eralp
Is America’s Cyber Weakness Self-Inflicted?
Shaoyu Yuan
Economic Statecraft Is Back. Is America Ready?
Nicholas Hanson
and
Madeline Field
Gaza and the Conduct of Urban War: Civilian Harm, Risk, and Responsibility
Andy Milburn
The Costs of Collective Suspicion: Afghans in America in the Aftermath of a Killing
Omid Kamal
TikTok, Algorithmic Emotion, and the New Propaganda Battlefield
Michael Morgan
Indonesia’s One Million Soldiers Questions
Muhammad Fauzan Malufti
Deep Learning From Operation Sindoor: Five Takeaways From a Four-Day War
Sameer Lalwani
,
Shailender Arya
, and
David Brostoff
Protests and Crackdown: Implications for Iran
Alex Vatanka
,
Roham Alvandi
,
Nima Gerami
, and
Nicole Grajewski
Ships or Munitions? Clarifying the Discussion on Unmanned Surface Vessels
Aaron Marchant
Trump, Uncertainty, and China’s Anti-Alliance Strategy
Olivia Cheung
,
Luis Simón
, and
Giulia Tercovich
Betting on War: Prediction Markets and the Corruption of National Security
Alex Goldenberg
Change or Just Cheating? Overhauling Professional Military Education for the AI Era
Tim Devine
and
Todd Graham
The Front Door Problem in National Security Space
Isobel Porteous
International Criminal Liability and U.S. Boat Attacks in the Pacific and Caribbean
Dru Brenner-Beck
What’s Going On in Venezuela?
Joseph Wehmeyer
The Triage Trap: When AI Speed Replaces Command Judgment
Eli Talbert
Colombia’s Security Situation Under Petro
Alfonso Camacho-Martinez
Can the 15th Five-Year Plan Fix the People’s Liberation Army’s Procurement Bottlenecks?
Jessica C. Liao
and
Joshua Arostegui
How to Ensure that $11 Billion in Potential Arms Sales Would Actually Help Taiwan
Raymond Kuo
,
Brian Hart
,
Ben Lewis
, and
Shelley Rigger
After Maduro: Trump’s Managed Authoritarianism Trap in Venezuela
Orlando J. Pérez
Why the U.S. Navy Doesn’t Build Battleships Anymore
Trent Hone
Latest Pentagon Report: China’s Military Advancing Amid Churn
Andrew Erickson
Who Stress-Tests U.S. War Plans?
Alexandra Gerber
Gamified War in Ukraine: Points, Drones, and the New Moral Economy of Killing
Hadi Al-Majdalani
Key Elements of the 2026 National Defense Authorization Act
Matt Vallone
,
Steven Wills
,
Katherine Kuzminski
, and
Max Bergmann
Containing the Threat of Containerized Missiles
Zane Tremmel
The Burn and the Choke: Why Semiconductor Controls Will Outlast China’s Rare Earth Weapon
Alvin Camba
Why Mechanized Warfare Will Still Be Decisive in the Next Land War
Scott Rutter
and
Matthew C. Paul
Seatbelts for Speeders: Why Beijing Ignores Washington’s Red Phone
Carla P. Freeman
and
Alison McFarland
The Last Gasp of Peace: The Christmas Truce of 1914 and the Modern Profession of Arms
Joseph D. Eanett
Shaping the Character of the Future Fight
Justin Lynch
The Muslim Brotherhood and the Limits of Terrorist Designations
Jeff Breinholt
The Case for Caution: Why the U.S. Military Shouldn’t Organize Around AI… Yet
Morgan Plummer
Talks Continue, Violence Persists
WOTR Staff
Weak in Battle, Dangerous in Resistance: Venezuela’s Military Preparedness and Possible Responses to U.S. Action
John Polga-Hecimovich
A Changing World, a Constant Priority: China’s Homeland Defense
Shanshan Mei
and
Dennis J. Blasko
The Genesis Mission and Quantum Technologies
Prineha Narang
and
Joshua Levine
The Imperial Trap: Russia’s War in Ukraine and the Lessons of Failed Conquests
Jeffrey Mankoff
Hybrid Manufacturing: The Case for Agile Factories
John Borrego
Chasing True AI Autonomy: From Legacy Mindsets to Battlefield Dominance
Vitaliy Goncharuk
Decline of Operational Art: The Story of A Strategic China Wargame
Marco Lyons
After the Constellation-Class: Lessons of the Navy’s Latest Shipbuilding Debacle
Austin Gray
Why Many Underestimated Russia’s Invasion Risk
Aybars Tuncdogan
Ten Jolting Takeaways from Trump’s New National Security Strategy
Rick Landgraf
Confrontations and Coalitions
WOTR Staff
The Mighty Middle Powers
Tim Sweijs
Attacking Drug Boats: Bending or Breaking the Law?
Geoffrey Corn
and
Ken Watkin
Operating AI in the Gray Zone: Drawing Clear Lines Before They Blur
Morgan Plummer
The Soldier in the Illiberal State is a Professional Dead End
Carrie Lee
The 2025 War on the Rocks Holiday Reading List
WOTR Staff
Thinking the Thinkable on an AI Market Correction
Joseph Webster
Washington’s Risky Bet on Pakistan and the F-16
Sajjan M. Gohel
How Washington Is Losing the AI Race No One Is Tracking
Javaid Iqbal Sofi
The Case for An Allied Competitive Strategy
Arjun Akwei
and
Jinwan Park
A 15-Point Plan to Get to a Ukrainian-Russian Settlement
Ryan Evans
The White House Risks Squandering Its Own AI Leadership
Ryan Fedasiuk
Stove-Piped Systems Will Strangle Advanced AI in the Cradle
Todd Krokowski
Red Hands in Paris: A Small Act of Vandalism in a Big Russian Strategy
Clément Renault
How the Frontier Spirit and the Outback Temperament Collide in AUKUS
Ryan Shaw
The Day After: What Successful Regime Change in Venezuela Would Really Take
Orlando J. Pérez
Deals, Droughts, and Demands
WOTR Staff
Are New Defense Companies Giving Away Sensitive Info Through Marketing?
Jake Chapman
When Trust Becomes Strategy: Rethinking America’s Innovation Posture
Lawrence Pixa
Ghosts of the Road: What the Failed War on IEDs Means for Drones
Andrew Tenbusch
and
Trevor Phillips-Levine
Without a Standard for Autonomy, the U.S. Military Will Get Lost in the Fog of War
Randy Yamada
and
Tom Schaefer
The Importance of the Battle of the Sambre
Antonio Salinas
Make the Pentagon’s China Report Really Matter
Chris Estep
Thinking First, Adapting Fast: Debating the Marine Corps’ Need for the Information Group
Brian Kerg
A Bletchley Park for the Quantum Age
Mauritz Kop
Racing Against Time: Realizing a True Defense Industrial Enterprise
Gen. (ret.) CQ Brown, Jr.
Warfighters, Not Engineers, Decide What AI Can Be Trusted
Morgan Plummer
The Coming Wave: Chinese Doctrine on the Tabletop?
Cornell Fuka
A Clean Sheet Redesign of the Small Business Innovation Research Program
John Ferry
and
Joel Graley
Congressman Himes on Venezuela, Latin America & a Disordered World
Rep. Jim Himes
and
Ryan Evans
Igniting the American Quantum Economy
Prineha Narang
and
Joshua Levine
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
Strategy or Spectacle in South America?
J. William DeMarco
The Leak That Targeted the Leakers
Andrew Horton
How Regional Actors Might Respond to a U.S.-Venezuelan War
Michael Weintraub
,
Roxanna Vigil
, and
Anya Prusa
A Guide to Collaborating With AI in the Military Classroom
Matthew Woessner
What the Military Does
Evan Slusser
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
The Things that Bedevil U.S. Cyber Power
Jeffrey Edwards
Two Dangerous Assumptions in U.S. Defense Planning and How to Fix Them
Noel Williams
How Often Overlooked Non-State Actors Are Using Drones
Richard Horsey
,
R. Evan Ellis
,
Tricia Bacon
, and
Nathaniel Powell
Human-Machine Planning: AI Lessons from the Marine Command and General Staff College
Joseph O. Chapa
and
Sofia Cantu
Blinding First, Striking Fast: Why the Marine Corps Needs Information Groups
Benjamin Jensen
and
Ian Fletcher
Supply Chains Are Critical Infrastructure. It’s Time U.S. Policy Caught Up.
Jesse Humpal
Four AI Policy Choices Policymakers Can’t Afford to Get Wrong
Morgan Plummer
Can Lutnick’s Chip-for-Chip Idea Work?
Matt Brazil
Resilience in American Strategy Is More Important Than Ever
Erica Lonergan
The 12 Days of War That Didn’t Ignite the Middle East or the World
Ali Fathollah-Nejad
The Ripple Effects of the Oct. 7 Attack on Israel
Janice Stein
,
Gabriel Mitchell
,
Jonathan Lincoln
,
Zaha Hassan
, and
Yael Mizrahi-Arnaud
Silicon Statecraft: How U.S.-Gulf AI Deals Project Power
Kody McKinley
Sequencing Over Simultaneity: How to Avert a Two-Front War
Nick Danby
The Evolution of How We Interpret (and Misinterpret) AI
Vincent J. Carchidi
When Biology Meets the Battlefield: An Interview with Diane DiEuliis
Diane DiEuliis
Explaining Trump’s Surprising Turn to Pakistan
Muhib Rahman
South Korea Should Build Out a Reconnaissance Satellite Ecosystem
Chang-young Lee
Alien Oracles: Military Decision-Making with Unexplainable AI
Andrew Hill
and
Dustin Blair
Swarms are For Agents, Not Just Drones
Ben Van Roo
Crafting a Successful U.S. Force Posture Abroad
David Ochmanek
and
Andrew Hoehn
Lots of Royal Soft Power but Any Concrete Outcomes?
Andrew Mumford
,
Matthew Savill
,
Emma Salisbury
,
Jacob Parakilas
, and
Hillary Briffa
Guns, Oil, and Dependence: Can the Russo-Indian Partnership Be Torpedoed?
Vasabjit Banerjee
and
Tina Dolbaia
Fort Drum Shows How States Can Push Back on China’s Maritime Aggression
Ron J. Lienhardt
The Limits of Rapprochement Between India and China
Chiara Boldrini
New Agreements Among Adversaries and Allies
WOTR Staff
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 to Keep Generative AI from Crashing in Combat
Daniel Levinson
The Importance of the Battle of the Yalu
Tommy Jamison
Examining House-Senate Differences in FY2026 Defense Appropriations
Madeline Field
How Extremists Leverage Social Media to Succeed
Brian McQuinn
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
Summits, Sanctions, and a Parade
WOTR Staff
The Sad and Sorry Tale of Cyber Command’s Seven-Year Failure
Aden Magee
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
Building a New Brain: Transforming Military Schoolhouses into AI Battle Labs
Benjamin Jensen
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
Why Russian-Indian Relations Have Been Steady in the Storm
Dmitry Gorenburg
,
Julian G. Waller
,
Jeffrey Edmonds
, and
Jeff Kucik
British Grand Strategy Without America
Emma Salisbury
Inside Russia’s Shadow Military Sustaining the War
Mariya Y. Omelicheva
Rivals, Raids, and Rhetoric
WOTR Staff
Tanks, Tech, and Tungsten: The Strategic Mineral Alliance the West Needs
Fabian E. Villalobos
,
Khrystyna Holynska
, and
Peter Handley
Moscow’s Mercenary Makeover in Africa
Raphael Parens
Power and Peril in Reagan’s Last Cold War Chapter
James Graham Wilson
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
Israel, the Syrian Druze, and the Ghosts of the “Responsibility to Protect”
Daniel Chardell
What Will Be Russia’s Response to NATO Expansion After the War Ends?
Nicholas Lokker
and
Heli Hautala
Full Speed Ahead: Optimizing U.S. Cyber Command for the Future Fight
Brad Pyburn
and
Chris Weggeman
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 Polish Paradox: Gen. Kazimierz Sosnkowski and the Ban on Biological Warfare
Robert Petersen
Deadlines and Deadlock
WOTR Staff
High-Risk AI Models Need Military-Grade Security
Jason Ross Arnold
Is Warfare Becoming More Performative?
Jordan Spector
Spain’s Huawei Deal Is a Wake-Up Call for U.S. Federal Procurement Reform
Daria Bahrami
Drones Aren’t Swarming Yet — But They Could
Emma Bates
and
S. Ryan Quick
Sprinters, Marathoners & Skeptics on the Future of AI & Power
Joseph Webster
The Indo-Pacific Chooses Options, Not Sides
Vu Lam
Eastern Stars Rising: The Rise of China’s Commercial Space Industry
Ryan Nelson
,
Taylor Rhoten
, and
Brian MacCarthy
Advancing Diplomacy and Approaching Deadlines
WOTR Staff
It’s Time to Think About (and Fear) Drones and Psychological Operations
J.D. Maddox
Nuclear Deterrence is NATO’s Best Weapon Against Russia
Tyler Bowen
Titans, Trailblazers, and Translators: Forging a Unified Defense Industrial Paradigm
Austin Gray
and
Stephen Rodriguez
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
Lessons from the Army Reserve’s First Operational Data Team
Jim Perkins
Choking on Export Controls?
Emily Kilcrease
Friction, Fog, and Failure in a Software-Defined Force
Anthony Quitugua
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
The Fragility of U.S. Spacepower in a Multipolar World
Nazmelis Zengin
How Iran Overplayed its Hand
Michal Smetana
Toward a New Grand Design? Reviving Sully’s Legacy in European Strategic Thought
Iskander Rehman
Consequences Unfold
WOTR Staff
China’s Mineral Monopoly Demands Renewing the Development Finance Corporation
Ben Kallas
AUKUS Aftershocks: France’s Enduring Indo-Pacific Interests
Gesine Weber
and
Edgar Tam
Beijing’s Push for a Sino-Centric Asia is Cracking Southeast Asia’s Hedging Game
Jessica C. Liao
and
Lucas Myers
Calling Out Russia: France’s Shift on Public Attribution
Quentin Jalabert
,
Damien Van Puyvelde
, and
Thomas Maguire
Taking Stock of the Resistance in Myanmar
Ye Myo Hein
and
Lucas Myers
Transformer Trouble and the National Security Imperative
Jesse Humpal
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
The Case for an Economic Fusion Center to Prevent Strategic Surprise
James Tingle
Eye of the Storm? Revisiting IUU Fishing on the Global Stage
Aaron Delano-Johnson
and
Chris Bernotavicius
Rising Lion, Midnight Hammer, and the Global Response
WOTR Staff
I Fought in Ukraine and Here’s Why FPV Drones Kind of Suck
Jakub Jajcay
Why Recent Surprise Attacks Against Russia and Iran Should Worry Taiwan
Michael A. Hunzeker
and
Yuster Yu
The Meaning of Drone-Enabled Infantry Striking Beyond Line of Sight
Antonio Salinas
,
Mark Askew
, and
Jason P. LeVay
Three Alternative Approaches to Deterrence in Europe and the Indo-Pacific
Luis Simón
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
Steel and Silicon: Shipbuilding’s Defense Tech Moment
Austin Gray
How the Army Is Putting the Commander Back in Command and Control
Maj. Gen. Patrick Ellis
Too Much Tech Can Ruin Wargames
Jonathan Compton
,
Joseph Mroszczyk
, and
Matthew Tattar
Does America’s Indo-Pacific Strategy Still Run Through Ukraine?
Luis Simón
What to Make of Germany’s New Veterans Day
Christoph Nitschke
If America Abandons Europe, Will the Continent Fragment or Unify?
Ali Mammadov
Will China Force a Rethink of Biological Warfare?
Al Mauroni
and
Glenn Cross
Get Ready for the New Rules of War in the Indo-Pacific
James Kraska
and
Gavin Logan
The Importance of the Battle of Monterrey
Mitchell G. Klingenberg
Populists vs. Spies in Israel and Beyond
Ofek Riemer
,
Daniel F. Wajner
, and
Ehud Eiran
Giants and the Myth of America’s New Defense Consolidation
Dustin Walker
The Future of Africa Command
Michael Rubin
,
Maureen Farrell
,
Jennifer Kavanagh
, and
Benjamin Friedman
“Excellent” Calls and “Very Good” Talks but Little Clear Progress
WOTR Staff
How China Could Counter U.S. Intervention in War Over Taiwan
Joel Wuthnow
Autonomous Weapon Systems: No Human-in-the-Loop Required, and Other Myths Dispelled
Michael Horowitz
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 Revolutions from the Spanish Tercio to First-Person View Drones
Antonio Salinas
and
Jason P. LeVay
Military AI: Angel of our Better Nature or Tool of Control?
Emelia Probasco
and
Minji Jang
Crucibles, Not Comfort, Shape Future Military Leaders
J. William DeMarco
Print, Crash, and Reprint: How the Air Force Should Rethink Small Drones
Dustin Thomas
,
Jordan Atkins
, and
Peter Dyrud
Another Last Supper and a New Era of Defense Giants
Nicholas Hooper
The Ides of November: Navigating the Shifting Sands of Iraq’s 2025 Electoral Landscape
Inna Rudolf
and
Douglas A. Ollivant
An Insider’s Guide to Cyber Readiness
John Cobb
Modernization as Readiness in the U.S. Marine Corps
Keenan Chirhart
and
Scott Humr
Haiti is in a Political and Criminal Crisis that Should Not be Ignored
Mark Shaw
and
Romain Le Cour Grandmaison
The Middle East’s AI Warfare Laboratory
Frederic Wehrey
and
Andrew Bonney
Friends with Limits: The Future of Russo-Indian Defense Ties
Daniel Markey
and
David Brostoff
Modernizing Military Decision-Making: Transforming European Command
Bryan Quinn
,
Bobby Sickler
, and
David Wiltse
Agentic Warfare Is Here. Will America Be the First Mover?
Benjamin Jensen
,
Dan Tadross
, and
Matthew Strohmeyer
Spectrum Supremacy: Reclaiming America’s Edge in a Contested Domain
Roslyn Layton
The Adversarial: Talks and Tariffs
WOTR Staff
Thinking Through Deception on the Electromagnetic Spectrum
Michael Posey
and
David Zesinger
Mozambique’s Quiet Threat to Regional Stability and U.S. Interests
Emilia Columbo
and
Mike Brodo
Rewind and Reconnoiter: An Unsustainable Peace in Yemen
Thomas Juneau
A Federal Critical Mineral Processing Initiative: Securing U.S. Mineral Independence from China
Alvin Camba
Beyond Strategy: Executing Economic Security Policy
Chris Díaz
and
Aroop Mukharji
Putin’s Spies for Hire: What the U.K.’s Biggest Espionage Trial Revealed about Kremlin Tactics in Wartime Europe
Daniela Richterova
U.S. Allies and Adversaries Are Attempting Nuclear Deterrence without Weapons — Will It Work?
Matthew Fuhrmann
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
In Brief: How Government and Commercial Entities Can Advance Space Initiatives Together
Katherine Melbourne
,
Clayton Swope
, and
Andrew Penn
Putting the Screws on the Partnership Between North Korea and Russia
Choong-Koo Lee
Eurodeterrent: A Vision for an Anglo-French Nuclear Force
James Cameron
In Brief: What Lessons Is North Korea’s Military Taking from the Russo-Ukrainian War?
Jonathan Corrado
,
Naoko Aoki
,
Markus Garlauskas
, and
Jenny Town
DOGE’s Real Challenge in the Pentagon Isn’t Slashing the Workforce, It’s Boosting Productivity
Erik Schuh
Force de l’Europe: How Realistic is a French Nuclear Umbrella?
Alexander Sorg
How the Trump Administration Can Limit China’s Arms Exports
Grant Rumley
The Adversarial: Intensifying Risks
WOTR Staff
Europe, Deterrence, and Long-Range Strike
Lotje Boswinkel
The Trump Administration Is on the Clock to Decide Whether Operation Inherent Resolve Should End
Anders Streubel-Kristensen
and
David Vestenskov
Amplifiers and Dampeners of Cyber Escalation
Jason Healey
and
Virpratap Vikram Singh
Veteran-Recruiting Non-Governmental Organizations: An Emerging Actor in Humanitarian Response
Hannah Wild
and
Stanislava Mladenova
No Time to Spare: Irish Defense and Security in 2025
Patrick Bury
and
David Murphy
Deciphering French Strategy in the Indo-Pacific
Léonie Allard
Finding Adversaries Hiding in the Defense Department’s Supply Chains
Christine Michienzi
When It Comes to Submarines, Australia Is Going to Be Left High and Dry
Peter Briggs
Exposing China’s Legal Preparations for a Taiwan Invasion
Cheng Deng Feng
and
Tim Boyle
Can the U.S.-Ukrainian Rift Be Healed?
Constanze Stelzenmüller
,
Melinda Haring
,
Justin Logan
,
Michael Kofman
, and
Ryan Evans
The Pentagon is About to Make a Big Mistake on Civilian Harm Mitigation
Claire Finkelstein
It’s Time to Build the Digital Century Series
Ben McNally
In Brief: How European Leaders are Adapting to New Defense Realities
Matthew Savill
,
Gesine Weber
,
Frank Sauer
, and
Monika Sus
Will Israel and the United States Diverge on Iran?
Michael Allen
Is Cyber Revolutionary or Barely Relevant in Modern Warfare?
Jason Healey
The Rise of the Fake Tech Workforce: State-Sponsored Infiltration of U.S. Technical Supply Chains
Nathaniel Davis
and
Nina Kollars
In Brief: How Might Defense Budget Cuts Affect Investments in Emerging Technologies?
Doug Berenson
,
Radha Iyengar Plumb
,
Stephen Tankel
, and
Mackenzie Eaglen
A Tale of Two Typhoons: Properly Diagnosing Chinese Cyber Threats
Erica Lonergan
and
Michael Poznansky
What Makes Air Force Reconnaissance “Special”?
John Long
and
Leandros Fugate
America’s Long-Range Retaliation
Ross Hobbs
The Superpower Has Left the Building: Munich 2025
Richard Fontaine
Russia’s War in Ukraine Has Brought Iran and Belarus Closer Together
Jack Roush
Defeating the Houthis Will Require More Than Killing Their Chief
Ari Heistein
New Blood: Putin is Setting Up Russian Veterans to Take Center Stage in Moscow
Harry Francisco Stevens
and
Thomas Lattanzio
How to Get the Most Out of the U.S.-Indian Defense Partnership
Sameer Lalwani
and
Vikram J. Singh
Software-Defined Warships: The Navy’s Digital Future of Necessity
Artem Sherbinin
and
Austin Gray
How Can We Measure if Defense Innovation Works?
Casey Perley
The Adversarial: Adapting to Changes in Washington and on the Ground
WOTR Staff
It’s Time to Overhaul Information Transfer in Army Training
Daniel Vazquez
Trump Needs a Plan on Ukraine’s Buried Treasure
J.C. Ellis
With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility: How to Make Big Tech Accountable for its Global Influence
Joseph Jarnecki
and
Gareth Mott
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 Mills
,
Andrew Tenbusch
, and
Trevor Phillips-Levine
The Trump Administration vs the ‘Axis of Upheaval’?
Luis Simón
In Brief: Is China or the United States Winning the Race in AI Innovation?
Vivek Chilukuri
,
Zach Beecher
,
Melanie Sisson
, and
Jeffrey Ding
An Early, Easy, and Essential Win for Trump on Defense Acquisitions Is Within Reach
Ryan Evans
How Iran Lost Before It Lost: The Roll Back of Its Gray Zone Strategy
Farzin Zandi
Will Trump Focus on the Western Hemisphere?
Christopher Preble
,
Zack Cooper
, and
Melanie Marlowe
Start Making Sense: Strategy and Grand Strategy in the Trump Administration
Joshua Rovner
Other Outlets For Your Writing
WOTR Staff
Why Britain Should Scupper the Chagos Islands Deal
Marcus Solarz Hendriks
Understanding Cyber Effects in Modern Warfare
Jason Healey
U.S. Officials Need to Explain the Stakes in Taiwan
Jake Yeager
Rewind and Reconnoiter: Why Women Scare Autocrats
Kathleen J. McInnis
and
Benjamin Jensen
The Long Shadow of the Ladakh Crisis
Arzan Tarapore
A Blueprint for Digital Transformation at the Department of Defense
Radha Iyengar Plumb
The Battle for Brilliant Minds: From the Nuclear Age to AI
Iskander Rehman
Can Europe Fight for Taiwan?
Luis Simón
and
Toshi Yoshihara
The Mayhem of Russia’s “Research” Fleet
Nurlan Aliyev
The Missing Middle: Emphasizing Operational Expertise in the U.S. Air Force
Erik Schuh
Dual-Use Is a Strategy, Not a Category (Nor a Trap)
Gene Keselman
and
Fiona Murray
The Last Gasp of Peace: The Christmas Truce of 1914 and the Modern Profession of Arms
Joseph D. Eanett
Does the Fall of Assad Re-Open Turkey’s Kurdish Pandora’s Box?
Samuele C. A. Abrami
and
Riccardo Gasco
Cyber Campaign Plans and Other Fairy Tales
John Cobb
Rewind and Reconnoiter: Targeted Killings
Colin Clarke
What the Pentagon’s New Report on Chinese Military Power Reveals About Capabilities, Context, and Consequences
Andrew Erickson
Stealth and Scale: Quality, Quantity, and Modern Military Power
Michael Horowitz
and
Joshua Schwartz
Alliance Networking in Europe and the Indo-Pacific
Lotje Boswinkel
,
Luis Simón
,
Alexander Lanoszka
, and
Hugo Meijer
The Adversarial: Drama in the Middle East and East Asia
WOTR Staff
Hardware and Hard Truths: Trump’s Tariffs Could Hurt American AI
Alex Li
The 2024 War on the Rocks Holiday Reading List
WOTR Staff
Rewind and Reconnoiter: The Taliban’s Terrorism Problem
Amira Jadoon
The Tech Investment Playbook for Victory
Brian MacCarthy
Archipelago of Resistance: The Philippines Is Rising to Meet the China Threat, But It Has a Crucial Year Ahead
Haroro J. Ingram
Empowering the Combatant Commands Is Critical for the Future Fight
Maj. Gen. Peter Andrysiak
and
Bryan Quinn
62 Years After the ’62 War, Where Do China and India Go From Here?
Shanshan Mei
and
Dennis J. Blasko
Beyond Human-in-the-Loop: Managing AI Risks in Nuclear Command-and-Control
Alice Saltini
and
Yanliang Pan
Rewind and Reconnoiter: Underestimating the Enemy
Caesar Nafrada
and
Joseph Caddell
How to Get Ahead in Washington: Lessons from the Renaissance and Baroque Eras
Iskander Rehman
Moving Toward Defense as a Service
Jake Chapman
Rewind and Reconnoiter: Shifting Strategies in Afghanistan
Thomas Spahr
Beyond TikTok — The National Security Risks of Chinese Agricultural Drones
Claris Diaz
and
Emilian Kavalski
How to Stop the United States and China from Sliding into War
Michael D. Swaine
Rewind and Reconnoiter: Does More Military Really Mean More Security?
Alexander Sorg
and
Julian Wucherpfennig
More NATO in the Arctic Could Free the United States Up to Focus on China
Ryan R. Duffy
,
Jahara Matisek
,
Jeremy M. McKenzie
, and
Chad Pillai
In Brief: Europe Reacts to Trump’s Win
Alexander Lanoszka
,
Ulrike Franke
,
Ian Bond
, and
Gesine Weber
Paul Nitze’s 20th-Century Life in Statecraft
William Inboden
The Adversarial: Maximum Pressure
WOTR Staff
Drones, AI, and the Changing Nature of Warfare
Stacie Pettyjohn
and
Marshall Kosloff
With Friends Like These: World War II Advisory Efforts and the Origins of Sino-U.S. Competition
Tommy Jamison
Behind Iran’s Surging Military Budget
Clément Therme
How Naval Interdiction Could Help Curb Haiti’s Gangs
Patrice Deschenes
Balancing Risk: Ensuring the Safety of U.S. Peacekeepers in U.N. Missions
Christian Werner
Mastering Human-Machine Warfighting Teams
James Ryseff
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
The Adversarial: Testing the Limits
WOTR Staff
Will Iran Withdraw from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty?
Jamie Kwong
and
Nicole Grajewski
Rewind and Reconnoiter: The Dangers of Intertwining Politics and Military
David Pion-Berlin
and
Andrew Ivey
Can the United Kingdom and France Team Up in the Third Nuclear Age?
Paul Cormarie
Conventional Arms Control and Ending the Russo-Ukrainian War
William Lippert
Attrition’s Apostle? Reading Vegetius in an Age of Protracted Warfare
Iskander Rehman
Russian Roulette on the Red Sea
Ari Heistein
and
Daniel Rakov
Rewind and Reconnoiter: Iranian President Raisi’s Renewed Emphasis on Space Is Likely to Create New Tensions
Jim Lamson
Chaos Engineering for National Defense: Embracing Infrastructure Complexity for Mission Assurance
Nicholas Judson
and
Craig Poulin
Harnessing the Power of the E.U.-NATO Partnership
Monika Sus
and
Dominik Jankowski
Human Geography Is Mission-Critical
Judd Devermont
Mauritius One Step Closer to Diego Garcia Sovereignty
Samuel Bashfield
After Prigozhin, the Wagner Group’s Enduring Impact
Jack Margolin
The Adversarial
WOTR Staff
Israel’s Oct. 7 Early Warning Failure: Who Is to Blame?
Ehud Eiran
,
Ofer Guterman
, and
David Simantov
In Brief: The Conflict Between Israel and Hizballah
Faysal Itani
,
Michael Koplow
,
Yael Mizrahi-Arnaud
,
Oren Barak
, and
Hanin Ghaddar
Reflections on Software Lock-In at the Defense Department
Shyam Sankar
and
Bryon Kroger
Rewind and Reconnoiter: The Ordinary and Unique in Russia’s Electoral Information Warfare Game with Michael Poznansky
Michael Poznansky
In War and Society, Large Language Models Are What We Make of Them
Benjamin Jensen
,
Yasir Atalan
, and
Ian Reynolds
Secure Visas for Afghan National Army Special Operations Command
Sean M. Kingsland
and
Erin K. McFee
Is Germany Ready to Take Space Seriously? Requirements for Germany’s First Space Security Strategy
Andrea Rotter
Rewind and Reconnoiter: Does America Need an Africa Strategy? with Sam Wilkins
Sam Wilkins
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
How the Space Force Can Better Tell Its Story
Hannah Dennis
Rewind and Reconnoiter: It Will Take More Than A Biden Victory to Solve NATO’s Strategic Malaise with Sara Moller
Sara Bjerg Moller
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
From World Champions to State Assets: The Outsized Impact of a Few Chinese Hackers
Eugenio Benincasa
China’s Defense Spending: The $700 Billion Distraction
M. Taylor Fravel
,
George Gilboy
, and
Eric Heginbotham
When it Comes to Weaponry, Lethality Is Not Enough
Susan LeVine
Is Everything a Matter of National Security?
Christopher Preble
,
Zack Cooper
, and
Melanie Marlowe
What is an Italian Carrier Strike Group Doing in the Indo-Pacific?
Alessio Patalano
Keeping Canada Relevant Through Specialization
Richard Shimooka
Don’t Ever Invade China: Xi Jinping Prioritizes Border, Coastal, and Air Defense
Shanshan Mei
and
Dennis J. Blasko
How to Boil a Frog: The Dangers of Downsizing in the U.S. Military
Ryan Pallas
The Adversarial
WOTR Staff
Rewind and Reconnoiter: Strategic Autonomy and U.S.-Indian Relations with Jeff M. Smith
Jeff M. Smith
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
The Long Shadow of Soviet Sabotage Doctrine?
Daniela Richterova
In Brief: Japan’s Defense Posture
Zack Cooper
,
Sheila Smith
,
Ryan Ashley
, and
Kei Koga
China’s Global Public Opinion War with the United States and the West
Heidi Holz
Without Talent Agility, America May Lose
Jim Perkins
and
Mike McGinley
Beyond Fusion: Preparing for Systems Rivalry with China
Liza Tobin
,
Addis Goldman
, and
Katherine Kurata
The Adversarial
WOTR Staff
“Shadow Reserves”: China’s Key to Parry U.S. Financial Sanctions
Christopher Vassallo
In Brief: The Venezuelan Presidential Election
Fabiana Perera
,
Mark Feierstein
,
Laura Dib
, and
Ryan Berg
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
Keeping the “Best and Brightest” Junior Officers in the U.S. Military
Everett S. P. Spain
The Calm Before the Swarm: Drone Warfare at Sea in the Age of the Missile
Joshua Tallis
The Islamic State Keeps Finding Opportunities
Jeremy Hodge
NATO After Next: From Interoperability to Fungibility
Benjamin Jensen
Turbulence Ahead: The Maintenance Workforce Dilemma Threatening the Future of Airpower
Joshua Morales
The Adversarial
WOTR Staff
A Cyber Force Is Not the Only Solution
Zachary Szewczyk
The Uncomfortable Reality of Russia and Iran’s New Defense Relationship
Hanna Notte
and
Jim Lamson
The U.S. Department of Deterrence
Erik Gartzke
and
Jon Lindsay
America’s Adversaries React to the Attempted Assassination of Donald Trump
WOTR Staff
Sustainable Sustainment: Supplying War in the Age of Strategic Competition
Lt. Gen. Xavier Brunson
,
Christopher Boss
, and
Leo Blanken
Deep Strikes into Russia: A Partner’s Decision for Ukraine’s Strategic Success
Serhii Kuzan
A Globally Integrated Islamic State
Aaron Y. Zelin
The Adversarial
WOTR Staff
Back to the Basics: How Many People Are in the People’s Liberation Army?
Shanshan Mei
and
Dennis J. Blasko
Rewind and Reconnoiter: What is Europe’s Place in Sino-American Competition? with Luis Simón
Luis Simón
Rewind and Reconnoiter: The Evolving Geography of the U.S. Defense Industrial Base with Doug Berenson
Doug Berenson
The Challenges of Policy in an Era of Fulcrum Technologies
Melissa K. Griffith
and
Nina Kelsey
What France’s Surprise Elections Could Mean for Its Relations with the World
Ulrike Franke
No Quick Solutions: A Different Approach to Hypersonic Arms Control
Frank Kuhn
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
Hypocrisy Is Not a Real Problem in World Politics
David Polansky
Iran’s Election Circus Has Just Begun
Saeid Golkar
and
Kasra Aarabi
Mare Nostrum Revisited: Maritime Competition in the Mediterranean
Jeremy Stöhs
and
Sebastian Bruns
On the Record with Saddam
Michael P. Brill
Unraveling China’s Plans for the Middle East
Christopher Preble
,
Zack Cooper
, and
Melanie Marlowe
Power and Tension: The Cyber Security Problems of Military Electrification
Kristen Csenkey
and
Alexis Rapin
Why Washington Failed in Niger
Nathaniel Powell
The Adversarial
WOTR Staff
Rewind and Reconnoiter: Elevating Hunger as a National Security Priority with Kelly McFarland
Kelly McFarland
and
Freddie Mallinson
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
Developing an Economic Security Agenda for NATO
Anna M. Dowd
and
Dominik Jankowski
A Reflection on How We Mark Memorial Day
John Amble
Rewind and Reconnoiter: America’s Vital Interests in Georgia with Batu Kutelia, Shota Gvineria, and David H. Ucko
Batu Kutelia
,
Shota Gvineria
, and
David H. Ucko
Iran’s Nuclear Threshold Challenge
Toby Dalton
and
Ariel (Eli) Levite
Charting the Challenges in the Baltic Sea
Julian Pawlak
By, With, and Through at the Second Thomas Shoal
Nick Danby
What Exactly Are We Doing?
Francis J. Gavin
Techcraft on Display in Ukraine
Brian A. Hester
,
Dennis Doyle
, and
Ronan A. Sefton
Should Taiwan Attempt to Replicate the Zelensky Playbook?
Jason Vogt
,
Nina Kollars
, and
Michael Poznansky
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
A Plan to Revitalize the Arsenal of Democracy
Michael Brown
The East and South China Seas: One Sea, Near Seas, Whose Seas?
April A. Herlevi
and
Brian Waidelich
In Brief: The U.S.-Chinese Relationship
Collin Meisel
,
Mike Studeman
,
Yun Sun
, and
Rorry Daniels
The Drone Dilemma and the U.S. Air Force
Clifford Lucas
Haiti: A Best-Case Scenario
Haleigh Bartos
,
John Chin
, and
Tyler Ashner
How Will AI Change Cyber Operations?
Jenny Jun
The Forgotten Part of the Contest: Army Logistics in the Pacific
Carmelia Scott-Skillern
and
Peter Singer
In Brief: Defense Integration of Commercial Space Capabilities
Makena Young
,
Steven R. E. Jordan Tomaszewski
,
Victoria Samson
, and
Christian Zur
Will Fearless and Tireless Robots Lead to More Terrifying Wars?
Antonio Salinas
China Is Battening Down for the Gathering Storm over Taiwan
Mike Studeman
The Rising Ransomware Tide, Chinese Spy Cranes, and the Biden Executive Order on Maritime Cyber Security
Nina Kollars
,
Blake Benson
, and
Austin Reid
Lessons From Gaza’s Most Vulnerable: Understanding Civilian Protection in Wartime
Austin Knuppe
Operationalizing a Doctrine for U.S. Economic Statecraft
Alex Zerden
and
Leland Smith
Don’t Count on Us: Canada’s Military Unreadiness
Philippe Lagassé
and
Justin Massie
Leadership, Culture, and the Military Cyber Workforce
Nicholas Romanow
Two-Theater Tragedy: A Reluctant Europe Cannot Easily Escape a Sino-American War Over Taiwan
Tim Sweijs
and
Paul van Hooft
“Too Soft”: America’s Failure to Learn from Germany in Iraq
Emma Salisbury
Why Natural Catastrophes Will Always Be Worse than Cyber Catastrophes
Tom Johansmeyer
The Crisis in East Asia: Korea or Taiwan?
Sungmin Cho
In Brief: The Terrorist Attack in Moscow
Sara Harmouch
,
Vera Miranova
, and
Dmitry Gorenburg
Dereliction of Duty: Israeli Blunders on the Way to Oct. 7
Boaz Atzili
Mine the Gap: How Washington and Canberra Can Improve Their Asymmetric Capabilities
Eric Lies
From ‘War on the Rocks’ to ‘AI on the Rocks’: A New Chapter for an Ambitious Project
WOTR Staff
STEMming the Crisis: Immigration and the U.S. National Security Talent Base
Rachel Hoff
and
Reed Kessler
Aim High? Fixing the Air Force Commander Selection Process
Maria Patterson
and
Bradley Podliska
Rewind and Reconnoiter: Niger and the Risk Versus Reward of Remote Operations with Brian Petit
Brian Petit
America Needs a Dead Hand More than Ever
Adam Lowther
and
Curtis McGiffin
The 2024 Annual Threat Assessment
Christopher Preble
,
Zack Cooper
, and
Melanie Marlowe
Mismanaging of the Unmanageable: China Tries to Play All Sides in Myanmar’s Metastasizing Civil War
Lucas Myers
Organizing to Deter or Prevail in Space Warfare
Marc Berkowitz
Everything, Everywhere, All at Once? Cyberspace Operations and Chinese Strategy
Joshua Rovner
The Icarus Trap: Arrogance, Misperception, and the U.S. Invasion of Iraq
Joseph Stieb
American Military-Civil Fusion at Risk with the Loss of the Shift Fellowship
Jake Chapman
Learning from the War on Terror
Karen M. Sudkamp
Revisiting the Tanker War
Stephen Phillips
Admiral Raoul Castex: The Naval Strategist for Non-Hegemons
Michael Shurkin
U.S. Troops in Syria Are Critical For Multiple Missions: Keep Them On
James F. Jeffrey
Send in the A-Team: A Graduated Response for Ukraine
Brian Petit
Drones, the Air Littoral, and the Looming Irrelevance of the U.S. Air Force
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
Gen. Brito of Training & Doctrine Command Talks Army Professionalism
Gen. Gary Brito
and
Ryan Evans
Drones are Transforming the Battlefield in Ukraine But in an Evolutionary Fashion
Stacie L. Pettyjohn
Rewind and Reconnoiter: Bring European Finance Ministries Kicking and Screaming Into Geopolitics with Henrik Ø. Breitenbauch
Henrik Ø. Breitenbauch
Are the U.S. and Europe Never Ever Getting Back Together?
Zack Cooper
,
Christopher Preble
, and
Melanie Marlowe
In Brief: The Death of Alexei Navalny
Mark Galeotti
,
Andrea Kendall-Taylor
, and
Maria Snegovaya
A Framework for Foresight: Methods to Leverage the Lessons of History
Joe Donato
Africa’s Coup Calamity: What Happened to Deterrence?
Claude Lambert
How Was Israel Caught Off-Guard?
Ariel (Eli) Levite
Worrywurst at the Munich Security Conference
Richard Fontaine
Leave Syria, Keep Fighting the Islamic State
Thanassis Cambanis
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
The Adversarial: February 8
WOTR Staff
Uncrewed Systems and the Transformation of U.S. Warfighting Capacity
Mick Ryan
and
Clint Hinote
Smoke or Substance? NATO-Japanese Cooperation in the Indo-Pacific
Ryan Ashley
and
Jada Fraser
Automation Does Not Lead to Leaner Land Forces
Jack Watling
Special Operations Force Structure: Strategic Calculus or Organizational Power?
Cole Livieratos
and
Ken Gleiman
History Has No Lessons for You: A Warning for Policymakers
Joseph Stieb
Europe’s Marines in the Future European Littoral Operating Environment
Sidharth Kaushal
A “Plan Ecuador” is Needed: U.S. Assistance Should Draw Lessons from the Past
Paul J. Angelo
Why Scholarship Still Matters
Francis J. Gavin
The Tip of the American Spear? How the United Kingdom Could Pursue Military Specialization
Eliot Wilson
Rewind and Reconnoiter: Diplomacy with North Korea with Matt Abbott
Matt Abbott
Why Ukraine Is Not a Universal Resistance Model
Brian Petit
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
A Port Deal Puts the Horn of Africa on the Brink
Caleb Weiss
and
James Barnett
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
Can Historical Cases of Negotiated Settlements Inform the Debate on Post-Conflict Gaza?
Colin Clarke
Ukraine’s War of Narratives
Neil Hauer
Getting “Left-of-Launch” in the Counter-Drone Fight
Paul Lushenko
and
Caitlin Lee
Readiness Redefined, But Not Measured
Matthew Ross
Networking to Win: Mission Prioritization for Wartime Command and Control
Thane C. Clare
The Adversarial: Jan. 11
WOTR Staff
Why U.S. Naval Power Needs Asian Allies
Choi Kang
and
Peter K. Lee
Expelling Palestinians From Gaza Is Playing With Fire
Karim Haggag
and
Omar Auf
In Brief: What to Expect from the Russo-Ukrainian War in 2024
Dara Massicot
,
Dmitry Gorenburg
, and
Max Bergmann
Cutting Army Special Operations Will Erode the Military’s Ability to Influence the Modern Battlefield
Cole Livieratos
How Far-Right Terrorists Learned to Stop Worrying and Leave the Bomb
Bruce Hoffman
and
Jacob Ware
A Better Cyber Service
Michael Kreuzer
Written in Black and Red: Asymmetric Threats and Affordable Unmanned Surface Vessels
Mike Knickerbocker
Strengthen the Military-Rhetorical Complex
Andrew Bary
Most Read War On The Rocks Articles of 2023
WOTR Staff
Reversing America’s Ruinous Support for Israel’s Assault on Gaza
Ryan Evans
The Last Gasp of Peace: The Christmas Truce of 1914 and the Modern Profession of Arms
Joseph D. Eanett
A Conversation with Sen. John Cornyn
Sen. John Cornyn
and
William Inboden
Rewind and Reconnoiter: The Greco-Turkish Relationship with Ryan Gingeras
Ryan Gingeras
Strategic Outpost Brings You Santa’s 2023 National Security Gift List
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
The Future of Presidential Libraries
Paul Noel Chretien
,
Tim Naftali
,
Matthew Connelly
,
Warren Finch
, and
Mark Lawrence
Using Technology to Solve the Declassification Problem
Jared Abrams
,
Ivan Lee
,
Alex Joel
,
Ezra Cohen
, and
Adam Klein
From Boycotts to Selfies: Asia’s Myriad Perceptions of Japan
Ryan Ashley
The Strategic Posture Commission’s Amazing Trip Back to the Future
Al Mauroni
Why There Should Not Be a Norm for “Minimum Safe Distance” Between Satellites
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James Wilson
Large-Scale Combat Operations Will Bring New Medical Ethics Challenges
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Counter-Terrorism and U.S. Foreign Policy Priorities
Christine Abizaid
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Paul Pope
Rewind and Reconnoiter: China’s Slowing Economy with Collin Meisel
Collin Meisel
The 2023 War on the Rocks Holiday Reading List
WOTR Staff
Learning from Real Wars: Gaza and Ukraine
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
Chinese Private Security Companies: Neither Blackwater Nor the Wagner Group
Alessandro Arduino
Israel’s Gaza Ground Invasion and the Return of “Strategic Depth”
Rob Geist Pinfold
Moscow’s Search for Foreign Recruits Reveals Its Growing Desperation
Elizabeth M.F. Grasmeder
The United Kingdom’s Indo-Pacific Engagement
Peter Chalk
The Future of Algorithmic Warfare Part IV: Promise Fulfilled
Scott Cuomo
,
Benjamin Jensen
, and
Christopher Whyte
Keeping the Nation’s Secrets
Michael G. Vickers
and
Stephen Slick
Outsourcing Surveillance: A Cost-Effective Strategy to Maintain Maritime Supremacy
Josh Portzer
and
Aaron Stein
Rewind and Reconnoiter: The U.S.-Japanese-Korean Relationship with Takuya Matsuda
Takuya Matsuda
and
Jaehan Park
Al-Qaeda: A Defeated Threat? Think Again.
Sara Harmouch
U.S. Special Operations and the Shadowy Promise of Irregular Campaigns
Brian Petit
A Misleading Metaphor: The Nuclear “Arms Race”
Matthew Costlow
,
Robert Peters
, and
Kyle Balzer
Rewind and Reconnoiter: Joseph Caddell on the Evolving Historiography of National Security Events
Joseph Caddell
One Size Fits None: The United States Needs a Grand Defense Industrial Strategy
Jonathan Caverley
,
Ethan Kapstein
, and
Jennifer Kavanagh
How Iran and Its Allies Hope to Save Hamas
Hamidreza Azizi
Citizen Sailors: The Missing Link in Maritime Force Structure
Joshua P. Taylor
and
Scott Humphrey
Information Resilience: Countering Disinformation and Its Threat to the U.S. Alliance System
Jill Goldenziel
and
Daniel Grant
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Kristin Burke
The Adversarial: November 9
WOTR Staff
Should I Stay or Should I Go? Stay-Behind Force Decision-Making
Brian Petit
China’s Gray-Zone Tactics Show the U.S.-Philippine Alliance Is Working
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Al-Aqsa Storm Heralds the Rise of Non-state Special Operations
Leo Blanken
,
Ian Rice
, and
Craig Whiteside
Getting Serious About Enhancing U.S. Defense Partnerships
Raanan Horowitz
and
Stan Crow
Turkey’s Response to the War in Gaza
Sinem Adar
Japan’s Play for Today: Too Much? Just Right? Or Never Enough?
Jeffrey W. Hornung
Israel’s Strategic Challenge
Blaise Misztal
Urban Warfare, Sieges, and Israel’s Looming Invasion of Gaza
Amos Fox
Rewind and Reconnoiter: Hamas and the Dangerous Diffusion of Basic Infantry Tactics, with Leo Blanken, Kai Thaxton, and Michael Alexander
Leo Blanken
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Kai Thaxton
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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
Getting Sporty in Russia’s Arctic
Katarzyna Zysk
and
Rebecca Pincus
The Four Questions The U.S. Military Should Be Asking About Operation Swords of Iron
Raphael S. Cohen
and
Gian Gentile
Israel’s 9/11
Adam Klein
,
Stephen Slick
,
Paul Edgar
, and
Simone Ledeen
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
The U.S.-Japanese-Philippine Trilateral Is Off-Balance
Ryan Ashley
Iran’s Support for Hamas and the Risk of Multi-Front Escalation
Raz Zimmt
Understanding the Israeli-Arab Conflict: A Guide from War on the Rocks
Erin O'Brien
Iran, Israel, and War in the Middle East
Afshon Ostovar
The Need to Train Data-Literate U.S. Army Commanders
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A Major Pivot in Hamas Strategy
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The Adversarial: October 12
WOTR Experts
Plus ça change: A French Approach to Naval Warfare in the 21st Century
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Gorana Grgić
,
Dimitar Bechev
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Maja Bjelos
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Helena Ivanov
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Nadav Pollak
Israel’s 9/11? How Hamas Terrorist Attacks Will Change the Middle East
Bruce Hoffman
and
Jacob Ware
The Meaning of the Attack on Israel
Bruce Hoffman
and
Ryan Evans
Alliance Assignments: Defense Priorities for Key NATO States
Stephen Flanagan
and
Anna M. Dowd
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James Johnson
The U.S. Government Should Stockpile More Critical Minerals
Gregory Wischer
and
Jack Little
Welcome to Cyber Realism: Parsing the 2023 Department of Defense Cyber Strategy
Emerson T. Brooking
and
Erica Lonergan
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Matthew Tetreau
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Ritwik Gupta
and
Andrew W. Reddie
Scaling the Future: How Replicator Aims to Fast-Track U.S. Defense Capabilities
Lauren Kahn
Balancing Space Superiority and Space Services to Better Sustain the Joint Force
Dennis Rice
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Frank Kuhn
The Biodefense Posture Review Needs Focus to Succeed
Al Mauroni
North Korea’s Coming Breakout
Jonathan Corrado
It’s Time to Build Combined Forward Operating Base Sierra Madre
Blake Herzinger
U.S. Diplomacy After the Russo-Ukrainian War
Chester A. Crocker
,
Ryan Conner
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Kelly McFarland
Iranian Drone Proliferation is Scaling Up and Turning More Lethal
Nakissa Jahanbani
,
Muhammad Najjar
,
Benjamin Johnson
,
Caleb Benjamin
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Muhammad al-Ubaydi
Side-Stepping Turkey: Using Minesweepers to Increase Allied Presence in the Black Sea
Aaron Stein
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Michael Brown
and
Rear Adm. Lorin Selby
Goldwater Ripples: How Defense Reform Made the Fighting Force More Diplomatic
George Greanias
Perseverance and Adaptation: Ukraine’s Counteroffensive at Three Months
Michael Kofman
and
Rob Lee
How To Enhance South Korea’s Conventional Deterrent
Jung Jae Kwon
Debating FISA Section 702
Joshua Geltzer
and
Nick Danforth
Move Soldiers Less: A Divisional System in the U.S. Army
Jules Hurst
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
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Open Source Technology and Public-Private Innovation Are the Key to Ukraine’s Strategic Resilience
Audrey Kurth Cronin
Logistics Interdiction for Taiwan Unification Campaigns
Jacob Maywald
,
Benjamin Hazen
,
Edward Salo
, and
Michael Hugos
Italy’s New Look
Leonardo Palma
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Rorry Daniels
,
Thomas Shugart
,
Timothy Heath
,
Dennis J. Blasko
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Thai-Binh Elston
You Go to War With the Industrial Base You Have, Not the Industrial Base You Want
John Barrett
Arm but Verify: A Blueprint for Rigorous Oversight of Future Ukraine Aid
Reid Smith
and
Tyler Koteskey
The Battle of Hostomel Airport: A Key Moment in Russia’s Defeat in Kyiv
Liam Collins
,
Michael Kofman
, and
John Spencer
France’s Policy Shift on Ukraine’s NATO Membership
David Cadier
and
Martin Quencez
Facing Down an Arsenal: Considering Agile Combat Employment in Korea
Zach Hughes
The Future of Algorithmic Warfare Part II: Wild Goose Chases
Benjamin Jensen
,
Christopher Whyte
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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
Lessons Learned or Lessons Observed: The U.S. Navy’s Relationship with Mine Warfare
Tom Wester
and
Joe Mancini
Japan’s Counterstrike: Learn from South Korea
Shinichi Hirao
By Weakening the Military, Colombia’s Petro Imperils His Hopes for Peace
Alfonso Camacho-Martinez
Survivability and What It Means to Risk It
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NATO’s Prodigal Son Is Not Returning
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Europe’s Missile Conundrum
Fabian Hoffmann
Iran’s Proxy Fleets-in-Being
Shawn Bunting
What Allies Want: Delivering the U.S. National Defense Strategy’s Ambition on Allies and Partners
Sean Monaghan
and
Deborah Cheverton
When Failed Coups Strengthen Leaders
Naman Karl-Thomas Habtom
Defanging Russian Nuclear Threats
Kori Schake
The Future of Algorithmic Warfare: Fragmented Development
Benjamin Jensen
,
Christopher Whyte
, and
Scott Cuomo
Creating a Codified Legal Response to Domestic Extremism in the Ranks
Michael Schrama
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Ray Khan
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Francis J. Gavin
It’s Time to Revise Guidance On Political Activities For Members of the U.S. Military
John Childress
,
Dave Richardson
, and
Heidi Urben
Michael Quinlan Was Right: The Enduring Relevance of Nuclear Deterrence
Gregory Giles
The Art of Vassalization: How Russia’s War on Ukraine Has Transformed Transatlantic Relations
Jeremy Shapiro
and
Jana Puglierin
Getting U.S.-Japanese Command and Control Right
Christopher B. Johnstone
and
Zack Cooper
How Advanced Is Russian-Chinese Military Cooperation?
Dmitry Gorenburg
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Elizabeth Wishnick
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Paul Schwartz
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