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Can Biometric Data Make Units More Combat Ready? Yes, and this Brigade Gunnery Exercise Showed How
Jon Bate, Stephanie Hightower and Rebecca Rough | 03.25.26
You step off in the dark, and you can feel it before anyone says a word. Two of your platoon’s...
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The US military is building a battlefield where nothing is hidden. Through billions of dollars...
Read MoreDiscovery Before Disaster: The Louisiana Maneuvers and the Untested Warfighting Concepts of Today’s Army
Matthew Revels and Eric Uribe | 03.23.26
“Train how you fight.” This slogan is among the Army’s favorites, yet its application at the...
Read MoreThe Industrial Window of War: How to Measure Russia’s Munitions Throughput—and How to Disrupt It
Cosimo Meneguzzo and Fabrizio Minniti | 03.20.26
Russia’s battlefield endurance in Ukraine is determined not by the size of Soviet‑era stockpiles...
Read MoreDrone Warfare and the Future of Korean Armor
Ju Hyung Kim | 03.19.26
In 2025, a NATO exercise in Estonia revealed the structural vulnerability that modern mechanized...
Read MoreWho Owns the Drones? Why Modernization of Army Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems Should Be a Maneuver Responsibility
John Dudas | 03.18.26
At first glance, placing Army modernization of small unmanned aircraft systems—sUAS—under the...
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