Throughout the sanguine annals of military history, very few truths have endured. However, one comes close: Advances in ...

General George S. Patton reminds us that a good plan, violently executed today is better than a perfect plan next week. Doctrine agrees. Field Manual 5-0, Planning and Orders Production clearly states ...

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

For twenty months, Russia’s 20th and 25th Combined Arms Armies ground toward Lyman, a small city in eastern Ukraine that sits on a critical road and railway juncture. By seizing it, Russia would gain ...

The increasing use of drones on the modern battlefield has sparked a great debate about their impact on the ever-changing character of warfare. Whether framed as evolutionary drivers of that change or ...

A force that cannot fly, fight, and defeat drones at the squad level is preparing for the last war. But proficiency alone is not enough. The decisive advantage now belongs to the force that can also ...

In November 2025, a frontier artificial intelligence developer disclosed what it assessed to be the first large-scale cyberattack carried out largely without human hands on the keyboard. A capable ...

The most important battlefield in the Iran War was not inside Iran at all. The United States and its partners demonstrated that they could strike Iranian targets. Iran demonstrated that it could ...

In Ukraine, the battlefield has become transparent. The sky over the front line is saturated with sensors and strike platforms. Small drones hover constantly above, watching trenches, vehicles, and ...

This slogan is among the Army’s favorites, yet its application at the operational level remains uneven. Brigade combat teams rotate through combat training centers, maneuvering largely in isolation ...

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 ...

Editor’s note: This article is the third in an eight-part series led by retired General James Mingus, the thirty-ninth vice chief of staff of the Army, on transforming the Army to meet the challenges ...