War On The Rocks

It is 02:35:01Z, March 22, 2026, inside a dimly lit Forward U.S. Joint Operations Center. Screens pulse in gentle waves each a second long, reflecting streams of updated data. Unseen beneath layers of code, an advanced military logistics AI…

In an April 9 executive order, the president directed his administration to “improve speed and accountability in the defense sales system.” The order aims to ensure that the United States has a “rapid and transparent foreign defense sales…

Reliable, fast, working, and user-friendly software is the basis of our everyday lives — something we all take for granted. The military can’t always say the same thing. A new memo endeavors to address that by announcing a huge, structural…

For over a decade, a contentious policy struggle has simmered in the United States over the allocation of radio spectrum — a resource as critical to modern warfare as it is to economic prosperity. Authors in these pages have observed how…

The Department of Defense is on the verge of a breakthrough with advanced nuclear energy that promises to strengthen military readiness and revitalize a globally competitive U.S. commercial nuclear industry. But for that to happen, it needs…

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The art of deception, as old as war itself, can garner astonishment when one side’s competence enables it to pull off an audacious plan. Warfighters can exploit the electromagnetic spectrum to deceive as we increasingly sense and understand…

A wave of violently suppressed political protests following the October 2024 National Election Commission’s announcement that the ruling party candidate Daniel Chapo had won the presidential election has rocked Mozambique. Coupled with an…

<!-- category --> April 16, 2025 In his 2023 article, “Negotiating Saudi Arabia’s Defeat and the Houthi Victory in Yemen,” Thomas Juneau of the University of Ottawa assessed that the Saudi-Yemen ceasefire would “not lead to a…

Gen. Michael Claesson, Chief of Defense of the Swedish Armed Forces, joined Ryan during a visit to Washington to share how NATO has changed Sweden’s armed forces as well as the details of their modernization, consolidation, and expansion…