Israel’s renewed military presence in southern Lebanon puts an old military problem back in view: Where should a force ...

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

Forty years ago this month, President Ronald Reagan signed the Goldwater-Nichols Act into law. The ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Editor’s note: Welcome to another installment of our War Books series! Each installment typically presents a themed list of books by an expert contributor. This edition departs from that model and ...

Whether it is Russian President Vladimir Putin’s threats of nuclear strikes or Chinese belligerence in the Taiwan Strait, the United States seems closer to a great power war than at any time in recent ...

The US military is building a battlefield where nothing is hidden. Through billions of dollars invested in networked sensors, artificial intelligence, and joint all-domain command and control, the ...

For as long as humans have waged war, controlling the high ground has meant controlling the fight. From ancient hilltop fortresses to the elevated positions that dictated victory in modern battles, ...

Size matters in urban operations. An urban area’s size dictates the means necessary to support any operation to defend or attack it. Two factors play into a city’s size: its population and its ...

The First Battle of Fallujah occurred between April 3 and May 1, 2004 during Operation Iraqi Freedom. The city of Fallujah is situated on the Euphrates River in al-Anbar province of Iraq, forty-three ...