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Campaigns in the DoD can be vague. Military planner Shane McNeil argues that applying #projectmanagement principles brings clarity & discipline.
The USAWC is using AI to modernize wargaming. Inspired by 19th-century "Free Kriegsspiel" LLMs create detailed, realistic scenarios.
The USAWC's Joint Warfighting Program trains future leaders for complex conflicts. It aims to develop intellectual agility, operational acumen, and strategic foresight.
Explosive ordnance from drones poses a significant threat to U.S. space and air defense, targeting vulnerable power generation. Attacks sever communication links, rendering space-enabled devices useless and halting intelligence....
The proliferation of unmanned systems (UAS), particularly small unmanned aerial systems (sUAS) and AI-enabled targeting, has fueled claims of an emergent military revolution. However, Layton Mandle argues that UAS...
Russian aggression, amplified in 2022, continues to threaten regional and global stability. The Swedish Army’s response to this threat must be to integrate modern capabilities to counter conventional and...
Modern technology offers many potential military advantages, but it is necessary to adopt it in the right way, argues Carlos Peña. He notes the dangers of overreliance on technology...
Andrew Hill and Steve Gerras conclude their three-part series on the evolving relationship between AI and national security decision-making with a focus on the inevitable rise of empowered military...
During the Cold War, U.S. leaders assured the public that a "human in the loop" would always control the use of nuclear weapons. This aimed to alleviate public fears...
We always encourage thoughtful discussion at War Room. So when Tom Jackson approached us with a counterpoint to an article we recently published, we were happy to work with...
Contractors have been employed on the battlefield by the United States since the Revolutionary War. So why is it that after all that time, there are still issues to...
Innovation. It can occur at any organizational level, and it's absolutely necessary to maintain superiority on the battlefield. But true innovation at the institutional level is often much harder...
How soon is too soon? Well, if you're talking about lessons learned from an ongoing conflict, there are different schools of thought on the topic. Chase Metcalf kicks off...
Situated on the eastern border of NATO, Lithuania faces the possibility that Russia will attempt to seize the Suwalki Corridor, an area of southern Lithuania that separates Belarus and...
The Dusty Shelves series is back with a look at the 1968 classic Unless Peace Comes: A Scientific Forecast of New Weapons, a collection of essays written by several...
Once the realm of rich nations, warfare has been getting cheaper and cheaper as time has marched on. The computer age has lowered the bar when it comes to...
Knowledge is power. It's a concept as old as time far predating modern AI and computing systems. But what then is incomplete knowledge? Well it can be a debilitating...
CAVEAT MILITES: SOLDIERS, BEWARE — LEARNING FROM PAST ARMY EXPERIMENTS
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Garbage in, garbage out. We all know the idea but it's possible the military has forgotten the maxim a few times in the past when designing wargames. WAR ROOM...
Admit it. In your most self-aggrandizing dreams you're as charming as Sydney Bristow, as lethal as Jason Bourne, and as intuitive and intellectual as Jack Ryan. If Austin Powers...