Military Mechanics’ 2025 year-ender explores how submarines, drones, lasers, robotics, and factories reshaped modern warfare.

The U.S. Army is grappling with the emergence of agentic warfare—the convergence of artificial intelligence (AI), autonomous systems, and algorithmically driven operations that promises to transform ...

In a recent Foreign Affairs article, Jacquelyn Schneider and Julia Macdonald argue, based on their research interviewing U.S. ground troops, that troops prefer close air support from inhabited ...

The Pentagon has a well-earned reputation for acquisition boondoggles, weapons programs that cost too much, deliver too little, and take too long to make. “There are so many DOD programs that are ...

In a future war where battlefield systems are contested, pilots could find themselves flying and fighting without consistent communications with commanders. The Air Force just war-gamed what such a ...

For more than eight decades, one of the Holocaust's most haunting images remained shrouded in mystery. The photograph shows a Nazi soldier pointing a pistol at the head of a Jewish man kneeling beside ...

“Just like in the First World War, we have reached the level of technology that puts us into a stalemate,” Ukrainian general Valerii Zaluzhnyi admitted late last year. “There will most likely be no ...

Kori Schake, a senior fellow and the director of foreign and defense policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss where the fighting in Ukraine is ...