The Trump administration is making changes to U.S. policy toward Africa. These changes — including dissolving the U.S. Agency for International Development and its programs in Africa — have direct and ...

It was 1940. War raged across Asia and Europe. America had not yet joined the war, but the country was beginning to prepare for the worst. Franklin D.

"Innovation adoption is a contact sport." As the chief technology officer of the Department of the Navy, Justin Fanelli is one of the leaders responsible ...

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In a recent interview broadcast live on French television, President Emmanuel Macron declared: Ever since there has been a nuclear doctrine since Charles de Gaulle, there has been a European dimension ...

Maj. Jim Mauldin, a U.S. Army Special Forces officer of mammoth size and prodigious strength, stood in my office doorway, blocking all light. He wanted ...

References by Pentagon officials, the think tank world, and various world leaders to autonomous weapon systems often cite a U.S. military policy requirement that doesn’t even exist. Published in 2012 ...

By some estimates, 60 to 70 percent of casualties in Ukraine now come from drones — cheap, disposable first-person view drones piloted from miles away.

Within months of the Cuban Missile Crisis, weapons designers at Los Alamos National Laboratory began engineering what would become the longest-serving and most adaptable weapon in America’s nuclear ...

Russian forces in Ukraine are suffering casualties at more than 400,000 per year — enough to pack the house at the world’s four largest stadiums. Losses like these have been fuel for simultaneous talk ...

The naval Battle of Lake Champlain — and the concurrent land battle at Plattsburgh — transcended tactical brilliance. The two battles altered the course of the War of 1812, forestalled American ...

The man who made that surprising decision to refuse assassination of an enemy combatant in AD 17 was Tiberius, Rome’s second emperor. His full official name, shown on coins and inscriptions, was “Ti.