As 2025 comes to an end, we at War on the Rocks reflect on the stories and events that our readers found most compelling in a ...

Mechanized warfare is not dead. Observers have been debating this topic since the Ukrainian military and volunteers beat back ...

The war between Russia and Ukraine has become a war of technology. In February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine. The war has been ongoing for the last three years, with Russia holding a section of Ukraine ...

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 ...

The war in Ukraine grinds on, well into its third year, now punctuated by Russian drone aircraft violating Polish and Romanian airspace. No clear victory or negotiated conclusion to the conflict is in ...

It is a long-standing habit of military historians to describe changes in warfare in terms of two biological paradigms: more or less steady evolution on the one hand and punctuated equilibrium on the ...

The Russia-Ukraine war has emerged as a watershed moment in modern military history, fundamentally reshaping our understanding of contemporary warfare. This white paper analyzes five transformative ...

The tech company’s C.T.O. on surveillance, A.I. and the future of war. Hosted by Ross Douthat Produced by Sophia Alvarez Boyd Mr. Douthat is a columnist and the host of the “Interesting Times” podcast ...

KYIV, Ukraine — President Trump and his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelensky, are considering a “mega deal” that would see the US buy battlefield-tested Ukrainian drones in exchange for Kyiv ...

“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 ...

Zena Assaad does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

Introduction / Lisa Parks and Caren Kaplan -- Part I. Juridical, genealogical, and geopolitical imaginaries -- Dirty dancing : drones and death in the borderlands / Derek Gregory -- Lawfare and armed ...