Russian occupying forces have long used highways like the M14 to drive to Crimea. Trucks flowed along the highway, beyond the ...

“Sir, what do you want us to do about the tunnel?” one of my squad leaders asked. We were conducting platoon attacks at the massive Range 220 complex at the Marine Air Ground Combat Center in ...

Chemicals like sulfuric acid sit upstream of copper extraction, battery-material processing, and semiconductor fabrication, meaning they can determine whether the US military can maintain industrial ...

China’s interest in Antarctica has been a consistent—and proportionate—feature of its rise as a global power. Its interest stems in part from the frozen continent’s wealth of untapped natural ...

Editor’s note: MWI Non-Resident Fellow has gathered a broad collection of books that, together, help to conceptualize the many challenges posed by insurgencies. The books he has identified are below.

Editor’s note: This is the first article in “Rethinking Civ-Mil,” a series that endeavors to present expert commentary on diverse issues surrounding civil-military relations in the United States. Read ...

Editor’s note: This week, the Modern War Institute and the Lieber Institute for Law and Land Warfare hosted a multi-disciplinary panel discussion on proxy warfare. One of the panel participants, Maj.

The Russian invasion of Ukraine has dramatically shifted the way the US Army envisions the employment of unmanned systems. Unmanned aircraft systems—drones—reportedly account for two-thirds of ...

Across contemporary battlefields, inexpensive drones increasingly operate as components of distributed systems that combine software processing, computing hardware, and tactical networks to accelerate ...

The military has an almost insatiable demand for fuel. In 2019 the Defense Logistics Agency, the military’s authority for purchasing fuels, spent over $12 billion to purchase nearly 4.2 billion ...

The US Army is rediscovering the division as the warfighting formation. During the post-9/11 wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the brigade combat team became the Army’s primary warfighting unit. Brigades ...

The killing of seven employees of World Central Kitchen in Gaza is as deplorable as it was avoidable. A substantial body of research suggests that technology can mitigate civilian harm in war, ...