Warfare

Ukraine’s sling against Russia: How 'geniuses in garages' transformed robotic warfare

The road to becoming a robotic superpower was paved with skepticism, but Ukraine did not set out to become a world leader in military robotics - it set out to survive.

OLEKSII REZNIKOV, Ukraine’s former defense minister, attends a parliament session in Kyiv, June 2023.
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky speaks to the media as he arrives to attend an informal European leaders' summit in Ayia Napa, Cyprus, April 23, 2026; illustrative.

Ukraine secures drone deals with nearly 20 countries, Zelensky announces

Alon Lifshitz, Founding Partner of Aurelius Capital

Israel's new threat map is a system, not a front

Elbit System's Rook unmanned ground vehicle

The ground loyal wingman and the future of manned-unmanned combat - opinion


Balancing Act

Syria barely exists as a state, but Russia is keen to maintain calm there to help Assad keep control, while Iran, already overstretched, does not seem keen on an all-out confrontation with Israel.

PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu chats with Israeli soldiers at a military outpost during a visit to Mount Hermon in the Golan Heights overlooking the Israel-Syria border in 2015.

The resurfacing of European colonialism

Decolonialism was forced on Europe without preparation. As a result, the continent never went through a process of mental decolonization. Now, is Europe increasingly behaving in neocolonialist ways?

AN OLD map presents Europe in the shape of a queen holding scepter and orb, with Portugal as her crown, Spain as her face, France as her belowthe- neck area, lower Germany and Denmark as her left arm, Italy as her right arm (with Sicily as orb), and the rest of central and eastern Europe as the dres

New Chief of General Staff Aviv Kochavi - a different breed

Aviv Kochavi, a product and shaper of postmodern warfare, will be the first IDF Chief of General Staff to have never participated in a conventional war.

Outgoing Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot sits next to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a memorial for assassinated prime minister Yitzhak Rabin

Technology and conventional warfare merge under Israeli eyes

The challenge of future war is not that everything becomes less personal, but how to get the soldiers to want to use all the gadgets at their disposal effectively.

ONE OF CONTROP Precision Technologies’ electro-optical products. What all of this technology is doing is making it possible to locate targets more easily and defend borders from threats

Senate passes bill sanctioning Hamas, Hezbollah 'human shields' practice

The legislation, titled the STOP Using Human Shields Act, was authored and supported by Republican and Democrats.

Palestinian students supporting Hamas stand next to mock Hamas rockets during a rally celebrating their winning of the student council election at Birzeit University in the West Bank city of Ramallah April 23, 2015.

Russian, U.S. officers to gather in Israel for war wounded panel

The October conference will be the first of its kind in Israel.

Wounded children in a hospital in the besieged town of Douma, Eastern Ghouta, Damascus, Syria

Yom Kippur War: IDF chief ignored pre-warning about Egyptian artillery

“Everyone one of the forts on the [Suez] Canal, as far as potential from the enemy, could be hit easily with 5,000 shells per hour.”

Then-prime minister Golda Meir (R) accompanied by then-defense minister Moshe Dayan, meets with Israeli soldiers at a base on the Golan Heights after intense fighting during the 1973 Yom Kippur War.

Yom Kippur War: IDF chief ignored pre-warning about Egyptian artilery

“Everyone one of the forts on the [Suez] Canal, as far as potential from the enemy, could be hit easily with 5,000 shells per hour.”

Then-prime minister Golda Meir (R) accompanied by then-defense minister Moshe Dayan, meets with Israeli soldiers at a base on the Golan Heights after intense fighting during the 1973 Yom Kippur War.

‘New-generation warfare’ and the future of state security

“I know not with what weapon World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones” – Albert Einstein

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