After four years of watching the war in Ukraine, NATO defense decision-makers are finally beginning to pour money into drones. The Iran conflict has drawn further attention to these investments. The assumption is that unmanned aerial systems will ensure a long-term advantage in conflicts requiring ground operations and infrastructure defense.But the battlefield in Ukraine is already pointing toward a different future. Russia is transforming slow, propeller-driven Shahed drones into cheap, missile-like systems by equipping them with turbojet engines.
Author: Michael
Caught between two hammers — international law and technological dependence on the private sector — modern state sovereignty is in crisis. When a state attempts to act decisively against an adversary operating below the threshold of armed attack, it risks not only diplomatic sanctions and international condemnation but the loss of access to critical digital infrastructure owned by private corporations. In wartime, that loss is catastrophic, as we both experienced firsthand during Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine.The classical understanding of state sovereignty is being challenged.
Every American administration pledges to learn from the past when devising a strategy for contending with nuclear North Korea. And yet, few portfolios are so paralyzed by path dependency and resistance to learning. But now, confronted with the inescapable prospect that the legacy approach is actually creating risk rather than reducing it, the time has come to learn and pivot.The Trump administration should sharpen the choice for North Korea, making it enticing, raising the stakes, and being prepared to back it up. In service of this, the U.S.
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Chinese state media has for the first time published footage showing the world’s first operational next generation main battle tank, the Type 100, conducting exercises in an operational training environment, including manoeuvres at speed across dusty terrain. The footage notably shows crew member inside the vehicle operating controls, providing first insight into the layout of its entirely unique crew compartment.
The War Department has entered into agreements with seven of the world’s leading frontier artificial intelligence companies, SpaceX, OpenAI, Google, NVIDIA, Reflection, Microsoft, and Amazon Web Services to deploy their advanced AI capabilities on the Department’s classified networks for lawful operational use. These agreements accelerate the transformation toward establishing the United States military as an AI-first fighting force and will strengthen our warfighters’ ability to maintain decision superiority across all domains of warfare.
The United States has informed several of its NATO allies in Europe to expect delays in deliveries of U.S.-made armaments due to the severe depletion of its equipment stockpiles during hostilities with Iran from February 28. The United Kingdom, Poland, Lithuania, and Estonia, which have all played particularly central roles in the war effort against Russia in the Ukrainian theatre, are confirmed to have been among the states that have received such warnings. The warning of delays to arms supplies follows multiple reports from late March that the U.S.
Chinese state media outlets have provided new insight into the capabilities of the Y-20B heavy transport aircraft, after it recently carried out a mission to repatriate the remains of the deceased 13th batch of Chinese People’s Volunteers personnel from South Korea. The enhanced variant of the aircraft was first brought into service in 2023, and has since been produced and procured on a scale far exceeding that of any other large or medium sized transport aircraft in the world, revolutionising the Chinese People’s Liberation Army’s airlift capabilities.
American forces will start guiding merchant ships out of the Strait of Hormuz on Monday, as President Donald Trump said the U.S. will “help free up” vessels trapped between dueling American and Iranian blockades around the strategic waterway.
Trump announced in a Sunday afternoon social media post, saying that “Project Freedom” would start on Monday morning “Middle Eastern time.” Trump said that the United States will “guide” the trapped ships out of the strait. Soon after, U.S.