Mercenarism Reborn: Drone Operators, Coders, and the Post-Ukraine Market for Force
Ukraine has emerged as the world’s most intense proving ground for modern warfare. Yet, these...
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The Army is losing exactly the kind of artificial intelligence talent it insists it needs to win...
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Despite steadily heightening tensions, heated rhetoric, US strikes against alleged drug...
Read MorePatrick Sullivan | 01.07.26
One of the primary questions in the wake of Operation Absolute Resolve—the unilateral American...
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Despite a robust architecture of strategic documents, planning processes, and professional staff,...
Read MoreJoshua Koncar | 01.02.26
Eisenhower was right—wars are won or lost on logistics. Nowhere is that more apparent than in the...
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My safety as a member of a liaison monitoring team for KFOR in the Balkans once depended on a...
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