“These machines will eventually need to have the power to take lethal action on their own, while remaining under human oversight in how they are deployed. Individual decisions versus not doing individual decisions is the difference between winning and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Canadian soldiers take part in the Arrowhead Guardian exercise at Camp Grayling in Michigan in August. (Canadian Forces Combat Camera, DND 2024. - image credit) NATO says it wants its ...

Current and aspiring nuclear great powers (the United States, Russia, and China), together with other comparatively small nuclear weapons states (either declared or widely acknowledged as such), are investing in expensive and expansive modernization of ...

Israel's recent retaliatory strike inside Iran, in response to Tehran’s unprecedented missile and drone assault on Israel proper the weekend before, was a brilliant work of what practitioners of intelligence statecraft call "strategic signaling.

Pakistan would lose any conventional war with India, a former US intelligence officer has said, recalling that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) believed the two nuclear-armed nations would go to war after the 2001 Parliament attacks. John Kiriakou ...

With Operation Epic Fury stalled and oil prices hitting $100, rumours of the "tactical nuclear option" are surfacing in Washington. Know the W-76-2 warhead, the "Smart Munition Trap," and the 1945 Hiroshima precedent in the 2026 Iran conflict.

What does conventional arms control mean for how wars end? Even the longest wars terminate, and many conflicts end with some kind of agreement, even if it is unconditional surrender. Yet the term unconditional surrender is, itself, misleading, although ...

This publication would be inaccurate and incomplete, without the collaboration from the Irregular Warfare Center, The Irregular Warfare Initiative, the U.S. Army Irregular Warfare Proponent, and the U.S. Army Combined Arms Doctrine Directorate. It would ...