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The Modern War Institute podcast is the flagship podcast of the Modern War Institute at West Point. Featured guests include senior military and defense leaders, scholars, and others who disc...
For more than a week, the United States and Israel have struck a wide range of targets in Iran with air and missile strikes. Iran’s response...
What were the strategic calculations that drove the United States and Israel to launch a military operation aimed at a wide range of targets...
The United States has a new National Defense Strategy. Released about every four years, the document offers a window into the way senior def...
Examined exclusively as a military operation, the US raid that captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro was a stunning success. In the c...
Both training and education have always been key elements of the US Army’s readiness. But as new battlefield challenges arise and new techno...
Late on the night of September 9, twenty-one medium-sized, fixed-wing drones entered Poland’s airspace. Several were shot down, while others...
Almost since the very beginning the war in Ukraine triggered by Russia’s invasion in February 2022, the conflict took on characteristics of...
The United States is engaged in a strategic competition with China. On issues ranging from Taiwan's security to the question of which countr...
The US Army is in a period of transformation. And much of that transformation centers on technology—from artificial intelligence and robotic...
The US government established the National Defense Stockpile in 1939 to ensure that in the event of a major conflict, there would be enough...
When the United States conducted Operation Midnight Hammer, a series of strikes against Iranian nuclear targets, it did so with two key piec...
The defense industrial base is a critical component of US military readiness. But how should we conceptualize it in the information age, whe...
When Russian forces invaded Ukraine in February 2022, it galvanized both NATO and the European Union, doing more to unify much of Europe tha...
For more than three years, journalists, researchers, and military professionals have sought to describe the key dynamics of the war in Ukrai...
National security professionals often conceptualize a continuum of conflict as a framework to understand the wide variety of ways in which c...
When the Chinese company DeepSeek recently released an artificial intelligence model called R1, its surprisingly advanced capability and the...
After twenty years of America’s post-9/11 wars and the US military’s struggle to build capable and effective security forces in Iraq and Afg...
For well over a decade, Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad managed to hold onto power during a complicated civil war involving a number of anti-r...
When Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, one of its first targets was the city of Mariupol. Despite being outnumbered by—and less well...
Writing is often treated as a peripheral activity in the military, but it is a defining characteristic of any profession—including the profe...
During the United States’ post-9/11 counterinsurgency operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, many US service members survived wounds that would...
Both military practitioners and scholars believe that artificial intelligence will influence the character of war in the future. But it’s di...
Thirty years ago this week—on October 3, 1993—US special operations forces launched a mission in Mogadishu. It was part of Operation Gothic...
When news emerged from Lebanon recently that several thousand pagers belonging to members of Hezbollah had exploded, observers quickly began...
Would Patton be an effective battlefield commander today? Do the characteristics of successful commanders generally remain constant over tim...
For weeks, after an Israeli strike that killed a senior Hezbollah commander and the killing of a Hamas leader in Tehran, tensions between Is...
After Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the Ukrainian government began asking its international supporters to provide it with c...
The term "cohesion" features prominently in discussions of military effectiveness, especially at the small-unit level. We all know intuitive...
How does cyberspace differ from the other warfighting domains—land, sea, air, and space? What challenges do those differences pose? Does cyb...
The Prussian military theorist Carl von Clausewitz is held in high regard among US military scholars. But it can be challenging at times to...
No unit in the US Army has more experience defending against drone attacks than 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division. During a re...
In this special episode of the MWI Podcast , we're taking the opportunity to introduce listeners to a brand new podcast series called Ctrl A...
Russia is actively pursuing military applications of AI technology. But how much progress has been made in that pursuit? How have sanctions...
Many people look at a map of the Indo-Pacific region and assume that—characterized as it is by long distances and vast stretches of ocean—it...
When Iran recently launched more than three hundred drones, ballistic missiles, and cruise missiles in a large-scale attack against Israel,...
Seventy-five years ago, on April 4, 1949, representatives of twelve governments came together to sign the North Atlantic Treaty. Much has ch...
In this episode, John Amble speaks to Sandor Fabian about a very specific approach to national defense: resistance. The war in Ukraine has m...
For eight decades, the world has navigated the risk of nuclear war. But what will be required to so in the future? And because that risk is...
The Houthi movement in Yemen has launched dozens of attacks against commercial ships in the Red Sea in recent months. Over the same period,...
While Ukraine's international supporters have provided equipment to enable the country's defense against Russia's aggression for nearly two...
Most people know something about the most famous amphibious operations in military history—the D-Day landings and Gallipoli, for example. Bu...
This special episode of the MWI Podcast features the first installment of a three-part miniseries produced by the Irregular Warfare Initiati...
Observers watched the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh War closely, searching for indicators of the character of warfare on tomorrow's battlefields. Th...
When Hamas fighters conducted a large-scale and deadly attack against Israel and its people on October 7, what was the group aiming to achie...
As Israeli ground forces mobilize for what at this point appears to be a looming battle in Gaza to destroy Hamas military capability, this e...
Thirty years ago this week—on October 3, 1993—US special operations forces launched a mission in Mogadishu. It was part of Operation Gothic...
While Western leaders, media, and institutions have condemned Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and its conduct of the ongoing war—characterizing...
The decisions by the governments of Sweden and Finland to apply to join NATO marked a major departure from both countries' longstanding poli...
Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last year, the world has seen firsthand evidence of the threat posed by the revanchist state. Among those...
This episode of the MWI Podcast features a conversation with August Cole, coauthor of a new book called Burn-In: A Novel of the Real Robotic...