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The ongoing confrontation between the United States and Iran has once again demonstrated a stark truth about modern warfare: the decisive edge no longer lies in tanks, fighter jets, or even missiles alone, but increasingly in swarms of cheap, expendable, and intelligent unmanned systems. From the deployment of Iran’s Shahed-series loitering munitions to America’s reverse-engineered…
Amazon is helping the US Army and its allies build an online marketplace that will make procuring drones easier. The e-commerce giant’s cloud unit, Amazon Web Services (AWS), has played a key role in building an online storefront designed to speed up soldiers’ access to the technology reshaping modern warfare, a report claims. The US…
War beyond kinetics: The cognitive battlespace The ongoing confrontation between the United States and Iran is no longer defined solely by missiles, drones, or precision strikes. It has evolved into a far more complex contest—one that is being fought simultaneously in the cognitive, informational, and psychological domains. While the physical battlefield remains active, the decisive…
Over the past three decades, warfare has undergone a profound transformation, shifting from brute force and conventional firepower to a complex, technology-driven ecosystem defined by artificial intelligence, drones, cyber operations and precision weaponry. What was once a battlefield dominated by tanks, artillery and fighter jets is now increasingly shaped by algorithms, sensors and autonomous systems…
NEW DELHI: The Army’s Southern Command has concluded a 13-day military exercise, ‘Amogh Jwala’, aimed at validating its technology-driven, multi-domain warfighting capabilities. The exercise began on March 6 at the Babina Field Firing Ranges and culminated on Wednesday. It focused on integrating mechanised forces with aviation, unmanned systems and advanced battlefield technologies in a high-intensity…
F-16 fighter refueling from a KC-135 Stratotanker over western Alaska. (US department of defense via AP) China’s military is moving to integrate artificial intelligence into one of the most complex aspects of air warfare — aerial refuelling — in what analysts see as both a technological leap and a strategic signal amid intensifying global military…
Late in the Second World War, residents of London reported hearing a strange silence before destruction. Unlike conventional bombers that could be heard approaching from miles away, these attacks arrived without warning. There was no aircraft overhead, no sound of engines, only a sudden explosion. What had struck the city was a revolutionary weapon: a…
Iran is shifting its retaliation strategy from dramatic displays to sustained pressure, utilizing cheap drones to exhaust air defenses and rattle populations across Israel and Gulf states. This approach aims to drain expensive interceptor inventories and destabilize the region, making the conflict a drawn-out endurance test rather than a single event. Iran’s retaliation strategy is…
FILE – An Iranian Shahed exploding drone launched by Russia flies through the sky seconds before it struck buildings in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Oct. 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, File) The distinctive buzz of Iranian Shahed drones, seen in Ukraine for years, is now a common sound over the Persian Gulf. Tehran has launched these…
The AI battle: Defence secretary Pete Hegseth and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on Thursday said the artificial intelligence company “cannot in good conscience accede” to Pentagon demands for unrestricted use of its technology, escalating an unusually public standoff with the Donald Trump administration that could cost the firm its government contract…
