War On The Rocks

Is the Defense Department still preparing to fight biological warfare as if it’s 1970?When preparing for biological warfare, most nations picture scenarios in which an enemy openly sprays traditional agents over wide areas to kill their…

Ukraine shocked the world (and the Kremlin especially) when it launched a surprise attack with over a hundred kamikaze drones smuggled into Russia and delivered by unwitting Russian truck drivers to locations near sensitive military bases.…

Editor’s Note: This is part of a new series of essays entitled “Battle Studies,” which seeks, through the study of military history, to demonstrate how past lessons about strategy, operations, and tactics apply to current defense…

Anti-personnel mines are widely reviled, especially in the humanitarian community, but there are certain places in which they could be used to prevent war in the first place. The eastern edge of Europe is one of those places.On March 18,…

The trade war isn’t coming. It’s already here.Alarming as the daily news may be, this is not the first time nations have clashed over trade. In the 20th and 21st centuries, there have been many moments of conflict over tariffs and dire…

Over a year and a half after the Oct. 7 attacks, the Israeli government is embroiled in an unprecedented institutional clash with the nation’s internal security agency, also known as Shin Bet. For the first time in the country’s 77 years,…

When most Americans remember President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s farewell address, they think of his warning of the power of the “military-industrial complex,” but he also offered the positive vision of an industrial base “ready for instant…

In her 2020 article, “Australia-India Naval Cooperation and the Islands of the Indo-Pacific,” Darshana Baruah argued that a maritime partnership between Australia and India centered around the remote island territories of both countries…

America’s defense industrial base is in the throes of major change. For the first time in 40 years, major power war is a real possibility. Conflicts in Ukraine and Israel are providing a harrowing glimpse of what that war might…

The Trump administration is making changes to U.S. policy toward Africa. These changes — including dissolving the U.S. Agency for International Development and its programs in Africa — have direct and indirect impacts on U.S. Africa…