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Armed groups in Colombia have built an air force — and it flies on cheap, store-bought drones.In late August 2025, the National Liberation Army claimed responsibility for an ambush that left 13 police officers dead and four wounded. Initially rep…
Over the past month, eyes across Europe have been trained on the sky.On Sep. 10, about 20 Gerbera surveillance drones, believed to have been launched from Russia, crossed into Polish airspace. Some were shot down by NATO fighter jets, others crashed af…
Decades of dominance leaves a mark: It shapes the beliefs and behaviors of a nation and its military. Extended periods of hegemony for a nation, like long-standing market dominance for a business, encourages blind spots for changing markets, technologi…
There is an active debate in the U.S. Marine Corps about the value of operations in the information environment as a central aspect of maneuver warfare. Some critics have called new force structure like the Marine expeditionary force information group …
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization convened for its 25th summit in Tianjin on Sept. 1, the largest gathering of leaders in the organization’s history. More than 20 state leaders and heads of 10 international organizations attended the summit, …
America’s crippling strikes against Iran’s nuclear program in June have created a narrow window to avoid a strategic nightmare: namely, fighting China, Russia, and Iran all at once.With Iran neutralized, strategic logic demands that the Uni…
The recent wave of meetings between U.S. officials and allies in the Indo-Pacific have been studies in the duality of American diplomacy under President Donald Trump. Although headlines have focused on mounting American calls for allies to spend more o…
Between Aug. 31 and Sept. 1, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi attended the 2025 Shanghai Cooperation Organization’s summit meeting in China. Established by China in 2001 to manage border disputes, the organization now includes members like Ira…
What if Moscow’s most dangerous moves right now aren’t in Europe, but along the Gulf of Guinea?With its resources sunk deep into Ukraine, the Russian military has weighed carefully whether and when to engage elsewhere, standing aside amid r…
Editor’s Note: This is part of a new series of essays entitled “Battle Studies,” which seeks, through the study of military history, to demonstrate how past lessons about strategy, operations, and tactics apply to current defense chal…