Key Points - While Russia exhibits belligerent moves, including military buildups near Finland and the Baltic states, a conventional war against NATO would be "extremely stupid" for Moscow due to the ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Nakissa Jahanbani, Penn State (THE CONVERSATION) Israel’s air assault on Iran has ...

This publication would be inaccurate and incomplete, without the collaboration from the Irregular Warfare Center, The Irregular Warfare Initiative, the U.S. Army Irregular Warfare Proponent, and the U ...

Pakistan would lose any conventional war with India, a former US intelligence officer has said, recalling that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) believed the two nuclear-armed nations would go to ...

The conventional wisdom regarding Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war against Ukraine is universally accepted by retired generals and ambassadors; bipartisan majorities in the House and Senate; too ...

Military bloggers are preoccupied with an existential question this week: What role will tanks play in tomorrow's military? The U.S. Army's armor branch, once a crucial tool of conventional warfare, ...

The wars in Ukraine and the Middle East offer many lessons for better understanding, conducting, and countering irregular warfare. 1 On October 7, 2023, the Hamas attack on Israel combined attacks on ...

The views, conclusions, and recommendations in this article are the authors’ own and do not reflect those of the U.S. government. Israel’s air assault on Iran has focused largely on degrading the ...