Tag: Warfare

Attacks on schools surge by ‘staggering’ 44 per cent over the past year (UN News)

Attacks on schools in conflict zones around the world have increased by a “staggering 44 per cent” over the past year according to the...

In Preparing for Large-Scale Conflicts, States Neglect Lessons on Civilian Protection at Their Peril (Lucca de Ruiter, Erin Bijl and Megan Karlshoej-Pedersen – Just...

As the international security environment grows more volatile and major militaries shift focus from counterinsurgency and counterterrorism to large-scale combat, critical lessons on reducing...

Agentic AI: Does the Future of Warfare Look Autonomous? (The Soufan Center)

Agentic warfare, a military model in which autonomous and semi-autonomous systems are deployed to facilitate or drive planning, logistics, operations, and intelligence, is set...

Lethal Autonomous Weapons and the ‘Right for Machine Hesitation’ (Virgílio Almeida, Ricardo Fabrino Mendonça, Fernando Filgueiras – Tech Policy Press)

There is little doubt today that the world is going through a period of profound instability and war-related risks. While the open armed conflicts...

Is Ukraine’s Drone Attack a Turning Point in the War? (Soufan Center)

Ukraine launched operation Spiderweb in early June, an unprecedented covert drone strike that hit five Russian airbases, damaging or destroying 41 aircraft – including...

Walking Into Spiderwebs: Unpacking the Ukraine Drone Attack (Nicholas Weaver – Lawfare)

In the rapidly evolving landscape of modern warfare, technological innovations have contributed to some particularly stunning moments on the battlefield. Few compare, however, to...

Ukraine’s Operation Spider’s Web is a game-changer for modern drone warfare. NATO should pay attention (Katja Bego – Chatham House)

Ukraine’s Operation Spider’s Web will undoubtedly enter the history books as one of the most remarkable and best-executed covert operations of the war, with...

Ukraine and the future of deception in (Mick Ryan, Peter W. Singer – Defense One)

The key to success was surprise. If the enemy knew when and where the attack would strike, their defenders would be ready and the...

A Digitized, Efficient Model of War (Rupert Barrett-Taylor, Gavin Wilde – Carnegie Endowment

Battlefields from Ukraine to Gaza have recently been marked, as have many conflicts over the last two decades, by the extensive use of airborne...

Australia should establish a unit dedicated to financial warfare capabilities (James Tennant – The Strategist)

In an age of great-power competition, the next major conflict may be waged not in the skies over the Indo-Pacific or in the South...

Weaponizing the Electromagnetic Spectrum: The PRC’s High-powered Microwave Warfare Ambitions (Tin Pak, Yu-cheng Chen – The Jamestown Foundation)

The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) is rapidly expanding its arsenal of high-power microwave (HPM) weapons as part of its broader strategy to achieve dominance...

The AI arms race will be won on mathematical proof (Anjana Rajan, Jonathan Ring – Defense One)

The AI-powered weapons and systems that the Pentagon is racing to build will come with a significant vulnerability: our inability to determine how they...

Geostrategic magazine (26 April 2025)

From global think tanks The analyses published here do not necessarily reflect the strategic thinking of The Global Eye Today’s about: Brazil; Canada; China; China-Pakistan; Europe;...