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| Apr 23, 2023 | Why Security Assistance Often Fails | Editor’s Note: Around the world, the United States relies heavily on security assistance to gain influence and make its allies more formidable. When actual war breaks out, however, many long-time recipients of such assistance fight poorly o... |
| Apr 12, 2023 | Ukrainian troops blew up their own building to trap Russian forces after they blasted their way inside with a tank, commander says | Ukrainian service members near Bakhmut on March 24, 2023. Aris Messinis/Getty Images
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Russian forces used a tank to blast their way into a building in the war-torn city of Bakhmut.
Ukrainian troops in the building left and blew it... |
| Feb 19, 2023 | Indispensable but Insufficient: The Role and Limits of Special Operations in Strategic Competition | Editor’s Note: After the 9/11 terrorist attacks, special operations forces (SOF) were often the point of the counterterrorism spear. As the United States shifts away from counterterrorism and focuses on the threats that Russia and China pos... |
| Jan 27, 2023 | Psychology wins wars | How do countries win wars? Better strategy, superior firepower, and leaders’ resolve are obviously all key. However, there is one crucial aspect that is often overlooked/ argues Jacob Ware. Superior morale, whilst seemingly intangible, has ... |
| Jan 13, 2023 | Could Beijing Risk a Diversionary War Against Taiwan? | China’s deteriorating strategic situation and President Xi Jinping’s consolidation of power appears to raise the possibility that a desperate leadership might risk aggression against Taiwan. But Xi’s ascent to supreme power masks a far more... |
| Oct 30, 2022 | How Should the U.S. Military Share Secrets? | Editor’s Note: Access to U.S. intelligence is high on the list of what allies want and need. Department of Defense procedures allow for intelligence sharing, but as RAND’s Andrew Radin argues, the procedures are complex, confusing, and ofte... |
| Sep 12, 2022 | Next Generation Leadership for Special Operations Forces | Special operations forces (SOF) are at an inflection point. Operationally, they are rebalancing from an overwhelming focus on countering terrorist groups to a mix of that mission and others designed to support the military’s new emphasis on... |
| Aug 15, 2022 | America’s Allies and the War in Afghanistan | One year ago today, the Taliban entered Kabul as the Afghan government collapsed. The Taliban’s entrance into Afghanistan’s capital city marked the failure of the United States’ 20-year war and attempt to build a sustainable Afghan governme... |
| Jun 26, 2022 | Russia’s 'Demonstration Army' Is a Red Flag for U.S. Security Force Assistance | Editor’s Note: Russia’s poor military performance in Ukraine came as a surprise to me and to many observers. Ben Connable of the Atlantic Council argues that one important factor explaining Russia’s failures was the lack of realistic milita... |
| Jun 19, 2022 | Overturning Roe: What Might This Mean for Military Culture? | Editor’s Note: The possible overturning of Roe v. Wade has profound implications for women in the military. Kyleanne Hunter, a senior political scientist at the RAND Corporation and former chair of the Employment and Integration Subcommitte... |
| Apr 3, 2022 | What Does Arming an Insurgency in Ukraine Mean? | Editor’s Note: As the United States and its European allies funnel military aid to Ukraine, the conflict has taken on at least some dimensions of a proxy war—a subject Lawfare has addressed repeatedly. Vladimir Rauta of the University of Re... |
| Mar 3, 2022 | Ukraine Receives Fresh Supplies Of Bayraktar Drones And Eye-Popping Numbers Of Anti-Tank Weapons (Updated Once More) | The Ukrainian people’s will to resist is fundamental, but it is not enough on its own; partisans armed only with Molotov cocktails are no match for tanks. But Europe has provided a wave of support in the wake of the Russian invasion, and ev... |
| Dec 16, 2021 | Cyber Command Is in the Ransomware Game—Now What? | At the Reagan National Defense Forum on Dec. 4, Gen. Paul Nakasone, commander of U.S. Cyber Command and director of the National Security Agency, publicly acknowledged for the first time that the U.S. military has taken measures to “impose ... |
| Sep 12, 2021 | Ransomware Lessons for a Nation Held Hostage | Editor’s Note: The ransomware threat is growing, and policymakers and corporate America alike are wrestling with how to manage it. However, ransoms are not new, and, indeed, the United States has a long track record on this painful issue. T... |
| Sep 3, 2021 | 78 years after a ‘forgotten’ WWII battle, the US military is ‘plussing-up’ in the ‘most important strategic place’ | US soldiers and equipment land on the black volcanic beach at Massacre Bay on Attu Island, May 26, 1943. (AP Photo/US Navy)
Since its purchase in 1867, Alaska has been an important Arctic outpost for the US.
As the Arctic grows more accessi... |
| Jun 22, 2021 | Disinformation, Annexation, & Deterrence: Why the CCP Is More Likely to Subvert Taiwan Than Invade | Introduction
Over the past year, Taiwan has been brought to the forefront as a pressing international relations issue. From its handling of the coronavirus pandemic to supporting pro-democracy movements in the region, Taiwanese President Ts... |
| Jun 7, 2021 | Phones and fitness devices that make it easier to track US troops are a new headache for special operators overseas | A Green Beret instructs partner force soldiers at al-Tanf garrison in southeastern Syria, March 3, 2020. US Army/Staff Sgt. William Howard
In recent years, data from resources like fitness apps has been used to track the movements of US mil... |
| Apr 19, 2021 | The AI arms race has us on the road to Armageddon | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
It’s now a given that countries worldwide are bat... |
| Apr 19, 2021 | The AI arms race has us on the road to Armageddon | Join Transform 2021 this July 12-16. Register for the AI event of the year.
It’s now a given that countries worldwide are battling for AI supremacy. To date, most of the public discussion surrounding this competition has focused on commerci... |
| Nov 29, 2020 | Here’s A Creative Way The British Army Could Pack A Punch—Without Tanks | A Challenger 2 tank on Castlemartin Ranges in Pembrokeshire, Wales firing a shell at night.Crown Copyright |
| Nov 25, 2020 | A brief, bloody war in a corner of Asia is a warning about why the tank’s days of dominance may be over | A destroyed Armenian tank in November 2020. Gavriil GrigorovTASS via Getty Images
Footage of Azerbaijani drones attacking Armenia forces during earlier this year showed the small, relatively cheap munitions wreaking havoc on tanks and armou... |
| Sep 24, 2020 | Russia Uses ‘Swarm Of Drones’ In Military Exercise For The First Time | Russian state news agency TASS reports that a swarm of drones was used for the first time in a military exercise. |
| Jul 3, 2020 | Pentagon Developing Electric Stun Grenade To Safely Zap Everyone In A Room | Pentagon researchers are working on a weapon to temporarily disable everyone in a room with a TASER-like electric stun effect, making it safer for troops to clear buildings and reducing civilian casualties. |
| Jun 25, 2020 | The U.S. Should Communicate in the Jus ad Bellum Lexicon to Strengthen Its Deterrence Posturing | Editor’s Note: In a previous post related to this topic, the authors argue the U.S.’s reliance on the Rules of Engagement has failed to provide strong legal bases for its threats to use force in self-defense.
Deterrence has always been a ce... |
| Mar 27, 2020 | The National Commission on Public Service Is Right to Endorse Women’s Draft Registration | On March 25, the National Commission on Military, National, and Public Service published its final report advising Congress, the president and the American people on how to foster an ethos of national service. As part of this mission, the i... |
| Jan 21, 2020 | The Afghanistan Papers and the Perils of Historical Analogy | On Dec. 9, 2019, the Washington Post released to great fanfare what it presumably hoped would be a bombshell along the lines of the New York Times’s explosive “Pentagon Papers,” published in 1971, and indeed framed the coverage as such. The... |
| How Ukraine rebuilt its 'decrepit' military in 8 years in order take on Russia | Ukrainian soldiers on the frontline outside the eastern city of Debaltseve in the Donetsk region, December 24, 2014. SERGEI SUPINSKY/AFP via Getty Images
In 2014, Ukraine's military was criticized fore being ill-equipped and unprepared in t... |
| New Ideas for Over-the-Horizon Counterterrorism in Afghanistan | Editor’s Note: Managing the terrorism threat in the Taliban’s Afghanistan is both difficult and necessary. The U.S. withdrawal and the Taliban’s return to power, however, have made it far harder for the United States to monitor and strike t... |
| Project Force: AI and the military – a friend or foe? | The accuracy and precision of today’s weapons are steadily forcing contemporary battlefields to empty of human combatants.
As more and more sensors fill the battlespace, sending vast amounts of data back to analysts, humans struggle to make... |
