Supply ships are increasingly vulnerable. Navies need numerous small and remotely controlled or autonomous vessels to move material through the most dangerous part of the delivery chain, between large ships held at distance and forces …
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Many policymakers and industry pundits have read Arthur Herman’s Freedom’s Forge with the wrong lesson in mind. For those unfamiliar, the synopsis is simple: in 1940, the United States mobilised its industrial base to mass-produce …
In modern operations against near-peer adversaries, time is a decisive variable. The side that can observe, orient, decide and act fastest, and with confidence, wins the initiative. Artificial intelligence is changing that calculus. Built on …
Far from being a prospect for the distant future, the era of autonomous systems on (and off) the battlefield is here. Mass is back in warfare, not through much larger armies, but through growing numbers …
Conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East have shown that mass and asymmetry characterise modern warfare. The challenge is to deliver affordable mass—weapons in great numbers—while ensuring technology is evolving ahead of rapidly changing threats. …