1+ week, 4+ day ago   (493+ words) Third Army officers say ground robots cut paperwork. They let junior officers decide how to carry out a commander’s intent. Moreover, they gave a battle captain a shared real-time picture from which to coordinate units directly, rather than waiting for…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (184+ words) Editor’s Note: While War on the Rocks has a high standard for allowing pseudonyms, this is an unusual case: U.S. Army Special Operations Command requires its uniformed personnel to use pseudonyms when writing for public consumption (Policy 23-16). Meek young men…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (148+ words) Welcome to The Ukraine Compass, a weekly digest of Ukrainian commentary and analysis from across the political spectrum, only for War on the Rocks members. Each Monday, we bring you a curated selection of articles from Ukrainian media offering insight…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (288+ words) Promoted Younger, Rising Higher Two Paths to the Top Three Years That Changed the Officer Corps The War, The War, The War Combat credentials have tended to accelerate promotion. The wartime era has created new feeder pathways into senior command…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (231+ words) Our intrepid team covers a lot of ground in this episode: the increasing fluidity of the battlefield, drones and air defense, the biting Black Sea campaign, the causes and aftermath of the firing of Ukraine’s popular defense minister, why Ukraine…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (924+ words) Any ceasefire in Ukraine, or another such “ceasefire” with Iran, would not remove the comparison. Both conflicts are much closer to a state of “managed instability” than to the genuine search for resolution, while the rest of the world is…...