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Five Questions for a General: Brigadier General Rebecca Halstead
Welcome back to Five Questions for a General, a production of the Modern War Institute at...
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The Class of 1982 Modern War Journal, Issue 2: Innovation and Autonomy in Future War
About The Modern War Journal The Modern War Journal (MWJ) is produced by the Modern War Institute...
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Class of 2006 Modern War Conference: Deterrence in the Pacific, 23-24 September 2026
Deterrence in the Pacific The Class of 2006 War Studies Conference is the culminating event of a...
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Soldier Wellness is Unit Readiness: One Brigade’s Public-Private Prevention Experiment
As an Army, we check our teeth annually, but we do not check our heads with the same emphasis....
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Missiles in the North, Voting in the South: How North Korea Plays South Korea’s Election Calendar
On March 5, 2022—four days before South Korea held what would become its closest presidential...
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Building the Army’s Human Advantage: A Vision of Readiness for the Future of Autonomous Warfare
Across contemporary battlefields, inexpensive drones increasingly operate as components of...
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The First Clean Signal Is Not Permission to Fire: On Resilience and Governance of Autonomous Systems
An autonomous weapon does not possess legal authority. Commanders and operators do. But every...
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An Explosive Problem: Energetics, Supply Chain Fragility, and US Military Readiness
The United States invests billions of dollars in advanced weapons. And yet it could still be...
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The Unmanned Fires Observer: The Army’s Drone-Age Doctrine Rewrite Is Skipping a Crucial Part
In the summer of 2023, during Ukraine’s southern counteroffensive, I watched two soldiers...
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