About half of the country’s federal budget goes toward the fight in Ukraine, money that does little to support its long-term development.

In the nearly four years since Russia’s unprovoked full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the war has repeatedly confounded expectations. A conflict that many analysts anticipated would be short and devastating for Kyiv has proved prolonged and costly for both sides.

Militaries are investing in synthetic training using AI and virtual reality. Air Vice-Marshal James Beck said the victor of future wars may only be "validated on the battlefield." Future wars may be fought and won in virtual and augmented reality before ...

US Army soldiers at Fort Carson have been experimenting with a new command and control system that promises to fuse weapons, surveillance drones, and AI into a networked war machine. The Next Generation Command and Control system, NGC2, is intended as a ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The top U.S. military officer challenged the next generation of Army soldiers on Saturday to prepare America’s military to fight future wars that may look little like the wars of today. Army Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint ...

The Pentagon’s newly released National Defense Strategy warns that future wars may no longer be fought solely overseas, arguing the U.S. military must be prepared to conduct combat operations directly from the American homeland as adversaries gain the ...

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