How do you stop bullets using the lightest material possible? This question has inspired a string of fascinating breakthroughs from material scientists in pursuit of advanced lightweight armor that keeps foot soldiers agile and vehicles light.
In a huge development out of eastern Syria, where US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) share tense front lines with pro-Assad forces on the other side, the American coalition has reportedly attacked at least two Syrian government boats that were
New mapping technology that is expected to transform training and simulation exercises for America's warfighters was unveiled at the IEEE Transportation Electrification Conference and Expo (ITEC) 2019 conference on May 15 in Stockholm, Sweden, report
When the young men fighting wars stop killing each other and march home to take out our true enemies in the capitols there will be no more poor men dying for rich men's wars. There would be no more soldiers, but there would be plenty of warriors.
Most Americans would probably be dumbstruck if you asked them whether they prefer steam-powered catapults, or newer, electromagnetic models. But for President Trump, this has become a pet issue of which he simply won't let go. After appearing convinc
The strange objects, one of them like a spinning top moving against the wind, appeared almost daily from the summer of 2014 to March 2015, high in the skies over the East coast.
After posting a video of a young recruit talking to the camera about how service allows him to better himself "as a man and a warrior", the US Army tweeted, "How has serving impacted you?" As of this writing, the post has over 5,300 response
I recently saw the documentary They Shall Not Grow Old, an account by English soldiers of their experiences in the Great War of 1914-1918. Culled from hundreds of hours of colorized actual wartime footage, it's a beautiful and heart wrenching film.
After posting a video of a young recruit talking to the camera about how service allows him to better himself "as a man and a warrior", the US Army tweeted, "How has serving impacted you?"
'It is a virtual certainty that you will fight on a battlefield at some point in your life': Mike Pence tells most diverse group of West Point grads they should expect to see combat since world is a 'dangerous place'
The Navy is soliciting contractors for bids for a project that would collect a massive 350 billion social media posts dating from 2014 through 2016 across at least 100 countries and multiple languages. The Navy did not disclose which social media sit
Just in case the "world tech and trade war I" was not enough to send US-China relations back decades, on Wednesday the US military sent two Navy destroyers through the Taiwan Strait in its latest transit through the sensitive waterway, "angering Chin
Here we go again -- just as tensions seemed to be calming going into the weekend, with Trump distancing himself from some of the more out-front escalatory rhetoric from hawks like Bolton within his own administration last Friday, leave it to who els
DARPA is automating air-to-air combat, enabling reaction times at machine speeds and freeing pilots to concentrate on the larger air battle and directing an air wing of drones.
Our rulers are masters of deception. They're psychopaths that use all tools at their disposal to remain the world's uncontested hegemon. One such tool is sanctions imposed on countries not playing by the neoliberal rules. On this episode of the G
The Pentagon wants to increase its use of artificial intelligence, or AI, for war. So it asked it research arm, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, to automate air-to-air combat, teaching AI how to manuever an aircraft and use we