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Commentary
NATO’s Drones Work. Its Foundations Don’t.
NATO’s growing reliance on unmanned systems is exposing an overlooked weakness: the physical infrastructure needed to deploy, sustain, and respond with those capabilities.
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Commentary
America Can’t Afford to Test Drones at Peacetime Speed
The US can't keep testing and fielding small drones at peacetime bureaucratic speed while adversaries iterate at wartime speed.
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Commentary
When Strategy Beats Strength: Ukraine’s Model of Resistance Against Russia
Ukraine didn't just improvise asymmetric warfare out of necessity — it turned it into formal state doctrine, and that institutionalization is what's let a conventionally weaker state fight a nuclear-armed power to a standstill.
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Commentary
Syria Is Sidelining the Fighters Who Beat ISIS
Syria's new army is sidelining the loyal, US-trained SDF while absorbing foreign jihadists and abusive warlords instead, squandering a decade of American investment at a moment when that force's skills are needed most.
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Commentary
30 Years of SHIRBRIG: What the Brigade Still Teaches About Peacekeeping Reforms
The small-coalition model SHIRBRIG pioneered is worth revisiting as reformers look for ways to speed up peacekeeping deployment, but only if they fix the one structural flaw that undid SHIRBRIG.
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