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 University. As one of the earliest detailed records of ...

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 projecting cutting edge competence, the launch instantly ...

By reducing the visibility of missions, stealth tech enables missions that once required large formations, heavy electronic warfare support and high-risk suppression of enemy air defenses.

It has been more than a decade since artificial intelligence and military experts were calling AI and autonomous weaponry “the third revolution in warfare,” after gunpowder and nuclear weapons. Whether in the deserts of the Syrian civil war, the plains ...

As conflict in the Middle East intensifies, militaries are turning to a new kind of weapon — not a missile or drone, but artificial intelligence (AI). As you read this article, advanced AI systems are being used to help identify targets, guide strikes ...

Mykhailo Fedorov, Ukraine’s 35-year-old defense minister, sees futuristic military technology as crucial to his country’s survival.

Technology maneuver treats individual emerging technologies like contested terrain, requiring speed to seize initiative, deception to misdirect adversaries, and constant repositioning to maintain advantage. As a framework, it provides a mechanism to ...

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 weapons or larger armies. But with faster, cheaper and ...

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 flying” students on the U.K.’s Higher Command and ...

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 supplied by Iran to Russia. Unmanned and remotely-controlled ...