3+ day, 23+ hour ago   (289+ words) Answering that question requires deliberate thinking about the role of the action officer, the work they perform, and their operating environment. To build a flexible, responsible system for automating action officer duties, agencies must first answer the classic question posed…...

6+ day, 23+ hour ago   (302+ words) I was fortunate enough to do something that would be a benefit to mankind. It’s been an extremely satisfying discovery. I don’t think there’s anything like saving someone’s life to bring you satisfaction and happiness. – Stephanie Kwolek, inventor of Kevlar…...

6+ day, 23+ hour ago   (375+ words) When Israeli warplanes struck the Abu al-Duhur airbase in Syria on Aug. 18, 2026, the smoke rose over the demolition of an old geopolitical assumption about the Middle East. This time, Israel directly targeted a strategic sphere of influence where the Turkish…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (160+ words) The second revolution is AI. The use of AI in wargame play is not new, but we believe advancements in large language models like Retrieval-Augmented Generation and agentic AI models provide capabilities that will be revolutionary. The work needed is…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (791+ words) My greatest challenge while flight testing collaborative combat aircraft was not troubleshooting errors at high speed in the cockpit. It was when, in a single keystroke, my job shifted from pilot to something like a dog handler — a supervisor of…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (339+ words) Neither number had been delivered by a technical expert wielding a seismograph. Each represented a political judgment about how much residual uncertainty its government should accept. The negotiations failed to produce a comprehensive ban. The treaty signed later that year…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (473+ words) Unlike the narrow AI systems the Pentagon has fielded for years, which do one task and stay fixed, generative models do many tasks and change constantly. That renders the traditional “test now, deploy forever” approach obsolete and requires new training…...

3+ 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…...