The Modern War Institute at West Point is pleased to invite applications for our research fellows program. MWI research fellows are nonresident volunteers committed to expanding the boundaries of ...

Israel’s renewed military presence in southern Lebanon puts an old military problem back in view: Where should a force establish bases? No matter the operational context—years-long counterinsurgency ...

Today the jury is still out on whether or not drones will usher in the next military revolution.

The contemporary discourse on drone-driven warfare rarely suggests the end of maneuver, but it highlights an increasingly perilous gap between tactical movement and force survivability in a ...

For as long as humans have waged war, controlling the high ground has meant controlling the fight. From ancient hilltop fortresses to the elevated positions that dictated victory in modern battles, ...

Thirty live video feeds fill an operator’s Vezha dashboard. More are available, but these are the thirty selected for the current fight. The operator has filtered the larger pool by unit and geography ...

If Israel launches a ground campaign into Gaza to clear the dense areas of Hamas military capability—and all indications are that it intends to—Israeli forces can expect to face a wide range of ...