About half of the country’s federal budget goes toward the fight in Ukraine, money that does little to support its long-term development.

Key Points - The war in Ukraine demonstrates that drones have fundamentally transformed modern warfare. Various types—reconnaissance, missile-armed UAVs, swarming loitering munitions, and cheap, easily operated First-Person View (FPV) drones—now ...

In the nearly four years since Russia’s unprovoked full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the war has repeatedly confounded expectations. A conflict that many analysts anticipated would be short and devastating for Kyiv has proved prolonged and costly for both sides.

The massive Ukrainian drone strike on Russia has strong implications for the future of all warfare. The sophisticated operation taught us that the use of low-cost, highly scalable, lethal drone technology is here to stay. Our leaders must pay attention ...

Militaries are investing in synthetic training using AI and virtual reality. Air Vice-Marshal James Beck said the victor of future wars may only be "validated on the battlefield." Future wars may be fought and won in virtual and augmented reality before ...

Militaries like the US, China, and Russia are building robot dogs to employ in security and combat operations. Some of these remote-controlled canines feature guns, rocket launchers, and flamethrowers These robotic dogs can fill a variety of jobs, from ...

One of the best, and worst, things about Star Wars in recent years is just how connected everything has been. It meant characters who may have at first seemed tangential, like Cassian Andor in Rogue One, could be greatly expanded in something like Andor.