Today the jury is still out on whether or not drones will usher in the next military revolution. The related question of whether drones will be as lethal against American forces as they have been in ...

The Modern War Institute at West Point is pleased to invite applications for our research fellows program. MWI research fellows are nonresident volunteers committed to expanding the boundaries of ...

Israel’s renewed military presence in southern Lebanon puts an old military problem back in view: Where should a force establish bases? No matter the operational context—years-long counterinsurgency ...

Throughout the sanguine annals of military history, very few truths have endured. However, one comes close: Advances in offensive technology eventually demand corresponding innovations in defense.

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 ...

Every major war reshapes how future wars are fought. Victory and defeat matter, but they are rarely a conflict’s only legacy. Wars expose weaknesses that peacetime exercises fail to reveal, challenge ...

A sprawling urban center deep within contested territory had become a critical node in the adversary’s war machine. Captured and subsequently retained by enemy forces during the initial phases of the ...

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 ...