This exclusive Cogs of War interview is with Bret C. Devereaux, an ancient military historian and Teaching Assistant Professor in the Department of World Languages and Cultures at North Carolina State ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth promised to showcase the “future of American warfare” with a sleek new artificial intelligence platform, only to watch the debut sputter in real time. Instead of ...

Technology maneuver treats individual emerging technologies like contested terrain, requiring speed to seize initiative, deception to misdirect adversaries, and constant repositioning to maintain ...

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The situation in the Middle East remains fluid. Headlines can swing from escalation to calm and back again in just a few days. But one thing is already clear: Warfare is changing. Not with bigger ...

“Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos.” Mary Shelley, “Frankenstein,” 1818. “War is chaos. It always has been. But technology makes it ...

When I look back at my 45 years of military service, one of the highlights of my military education was a battlefield tour I participated in during 2001 at the Somme battlefield, alongside other “high ...

When America went to war with Iran last month, the U.S. military faced an enemy using mass-produced drones to deadly effect. The same weapons have been used for years in Ukraine - some of them ...

The technology of war is evolving fast, and drones are at the center of it. We've seen this in the ongoing U.S.-Israeli war with Iran. Unmanned drones are cheaper than missiles, easy to mass produce, ...

Eighty years after total war transformed the continent, European countries are making big bets on new instruments of annihilation. Last spring, 3,000 British soldiers of the 4th Light Brigade, also ...

The Department of Defense clash with Anthropic over AI is a departure from decades of defense innovation when governments largely defined technological frontiers themselves. Public-private ...

While AI technology is new, information warfare is as old as conflict itself. For millennia, humans have used propaganda, deception and psychological operations to influence adversaries’ ...