The Pentagon describes Golden Dome for America as a “system of systems,” an integrated air and missile defense architecture that combines space-based

We spare the reader another detailed story from Ukraine to establish the now-familiar point that battlefield technology changes faster than militaries can

What do a rare earth mine in Brazil and a graphite mine in Mozambique have in common? Both have received significant United States government funding. The

This exclusive Cogs of War interview is with Brig. Gen. Steven P. Carpenter, the commanding general of Multi-Domain Command - Europe, the U.S. Army's

For decades, the United States’ nuclear weapons enterprise has wrestled with an institutional paradox. On one hand is the imperative to make the complex

If there is a revolution brewing in the automation of white-collar work, you wouldn’t know it at the Pentagon. Here, the typical action officers, staff

As a naval shipyard commander, my mandate from Navy leadership is straightforward: return warships to the fleet as quickly as possible. Neither my

Editor’s note: This is the tenth article in a limited series celebrating American defense technologies born from wartime and their effects on broader

As the war in Ukraine progressed, Russian strikes increasingly degraded Ukraine’s terrestrial communications infrastructure, steadily deepening Kyiv’s

My greatest challenge while flight testing collaborative combat aircraft was not troubleshooting errors at high speed in the cockpit. It was when, in a

This exclusive Cogs of War interview is with Brandon Tseng, the co-founder and president of Shield AI and a former Navy SEAL, whose company builds the

Military analysts are captivated by how the material nature of war is transforming in Ukraine. Unmanned systems have captured Russian infantry units,

Editor’s note: This is the seventh article in a limited series celebrating American defense technologies born from wartime and their effects on broader

Given the relentless demand for computing power, electronic components are in scarce supply. Prices for certain memory chips, known as DRAM, have surged

Editor’s note: This is the eighth article in a limited series celebrating American defense technologies born from wartime and their effects on broader

When the Soviet Union launched Sputnik in 1957, the U.S. government was the unrivaled patron of American science. It funded nearly two-thirds of the

Editor’s note: This is the seventh article in a limited series celebrating American defense technologies born from wartime and their effects on broader

When Anduril announced a $910 million drone production facility in Ohio, it was not politics as usual. The main message came from Ohio’s governor, Mike

The release of the Chinese open-weight AI model Kimi K3 has compressed a year’s worth of unresolved AI policy debate into a single news cycle. On July 21,

In June, the U.S. Department of Commerce informed the Dutch company ASML that it suspects one of its extreme ultraviolet lithography machines has reached

Editor’s note: This is the sixth article in a limited series celebrating American defense technologies born from wartime and their effects on broader

Taiwan produces the world’s most advanced semiconductors, yet the island’s own military is only in the opening stages of adopting artificial intelligence

For 18 days in June, two of America’s most capable AI models went dark worldwide, not for technical or business reasons, but because the U.S. government

Editor’s note: This is the fifth article in a limited series celebrating American defense technologies born from wartime and their effects on broader

Somewhere, a hard drive is filling up with secrets no one can read yet, and its owner is waiting for the machine that opens them all at once. On March 30,

Before the twentieth century gave armies antibiotics, the leading killer of American soldiers in wartime was neither enemy fire nor shrapnel. Two-thirds

The relationship between Congress and the Pentagon over the past year has been marked by public disagreements and frustrations over lawmakers’ concerns

Editor’s note: This is the third article in a limited series celebrating American defense technologies born from wartime and their effects on broader

In the span of two weeks, the White House issued two of the most ambitious artificial intelligence directives in American history. On June 2, President

The most produced American military aircraft of World War II was not a small fighter, a trainer, or a simple utility airplane — it was a complex

The wars in Ukraine and the Middle East have exposed a strategic reality that military planners are only beginning to confront: In a data-centric age,

Editor’s note: This is the first article in a limited series celebrating American defense technologies born from wartime and their effects on broader

In 1990, the idea that deployed commanders could access the latest intelligence from three-letter agencies in the middle of nowhere was radical. But the

The extent of China's drone dominance — and how to decouple from it — has long been a source of debate and anxiety in Washington. Last month, the Wall

As the relationship between the United States and Canada continues to degrade, it now comes at the expense of each country’s industrial security. Last

The Columbia-class ballistic missile submarine is the next generation of American nuclear deterrence. Twelve of these boats will replace the aging

A mentor of mine, a superb scholar, once told me that good defense analysis starts with a trade-off. The classic example is combined arms doctrine, which

A few months ago, I attended a panel discussion for a wargame simulating rapid industrial mobilization for armed conflict. Conducted by a leading

Winter Storm Uri ripped through Texas in January 2021. The frigid temperatures froze pipes, which then burst and caused flooding in aging barracks at Fort

Adversaries do not need to breach the Pentagon’s systems: They only need to harvest the logic of the publicly released frontier AI models that underpin

China’s plan to become a world leader in AI by 2030 is a fixture of practically every Congressional briefing and expert commentary on Beijing’s AI