Twenty million dollars doesn't usually change much in the U.S. military, but lawmakers hope it’s enough to usher the Pentagon’s irregular-warfare efforts into a new era. A provision in the 2024 ...

Several of these terms are reactive, potentially redundant, or vague and opaque to a non-practitioner. The prevalence of “counter” implies tactical reactions to adversarial provocations or actions, ...

Traditional warfare – that is, what we typically think of as armed conflict – is changing so rapidly that we must speak now in terms of irregular warfare. Even this new concept is itself rapidly ...

The U.S. military has failed to master irregular warfare above the tactical level. This is not a new problem, and it is one that has been recognized by leaders at the most senior echelons of ...

This article was submitted in response to the call for ideas issued by the co-chairs of the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence, Eric Schmidt and Robert Work. It addresses the ...

Imagine a group of former Pentagon officials, retired senior military officers, and think tank experts gathered around a table and staring at a hexagonal map of Taiwan. Quietly they move pieces around ...