Military Mechanics’ 2025 year-ender explores how submarines, drones, lasers, robotics, and factories reshaped modern warfare.

In a recent Foreign Affairs article, Jacquelyn Schneider and Julia Macdonald argue, based on their research interviewing U.S. ground troops, that troops prefer close air support from inhabited ...

The military drone sector is entering a period of explosive growth and strategic importance. Valued at approximately USD 60 billion in 2024, the global market for military unmanned aerial vehicles ...

What happens when machines begin to think, adapt, and act as a unified force? The unveiling of China’s Jiutian SS-UAV, an advanced AI-powered drone swarm, is not just a technological milestone—it’s a ...

The U.S. Army is grappling with the emergence of agentic warfare—the convergence of artificial intelligence (AI), autonomous systems, and algorithmically driven operations that promises to transform ...

A robotic dog fighting an aerial drone is the future of warfare that one would expect in science fiction. But a video depicting this real-life scene has gone viral on social media sites in China and ...

Thursday on the RealClearPolitics podcast, Andrew Walworth spoke about the future of drone warfare, considering the current mass sightings of unexplained aircraft over New Jersey, with defense expert ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth promised to showcase the “future of American warfare” with a sleek new artificial intelligence platform, only to watch the debut sputter in real time. Instead of ...

This chapter examines cooperation between China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea. 1 It asks several questions: How has cooperation evolved between China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, and other actors, ...

Preparing for future battle, assessing readiness for unknown situations, and driving capability investments that protect the Soldier and the Nation are reasons why experimentation is a key step in ...

Drones have been part of modern warfare for a while now, but swarms of AI-powered drones? That's a whole different story. Instead of one drone and one operator, we're talking about dozens or even ...

Military historians, professionals, and strategists attributed U.S. military victories in World Wars I and II to two basic points: 1) The U.S. possessed deeper industrial capacity to support the war, ...