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Iran’s Stargate Threat: IRGC Targeting Doctrine and the Vulnerability of Gulf AI Infrastructure

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Meet the Drone Boat That Just Made Military History

06.09.2026

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Line Crossed? Fully Autonomous Drones Kill Russian Soldiers

06.12.2026

Strategic Disruption from Orbit: Space-Based Capabilities for Irregular Warfare in the Indo-Pacific

By Trent Keipour

01.14.2026 at 06:00am

How is India Integrating Drones in its War-Fighting?

By Maryam Raashed

01.13.2026 at 06:00am

Department of Homeland Security Launches New Office to Advance Drone and Counter-Drone Technologies

By SWJ Staff

01.12.2026 at 11:00pm

Prompt Engineering in CTOC Instruction: Countering Transnational Organized Crime with Artificial Intelligence

By SWJ Staff

01.12.2026 at 03:46pm

Once More, the Sensor

By Daniel Ross

01.12.2026 at 06:00am

Cognitive Warfare 2026: NATO’s Chief Scientist Report as Sentinel Call for Operational Readiness

By SWJ Staff

01.12.2026 at 04:22am

The MWI Ukraine Papers, 2022-2025

By SWJ Staff

01.10.2026 at 03:05pm

Adapting the Combat Training Centers for the Drone Battlefield

By Bill Edwards and Greg Hoyt

01.08.2026 at 06:00am

Los Metros Faction of the Cártel del Golfo (CDG) Arsenal of Explosives, IEDs, Kamikaze and Other Drones, and Counter-Drone Systems Seized in Reynosa, Tamaulipas

By SWJ Staff

01.06.2026 at 06:06am

The Invisible Frontline: How Encrypted Networks and AI Are Rewiring Britain’s Security

By Hamzeh Abu Nowar

01.02.2026 at 06:00am

The Houthi Model – Non-State Actors and Multi-Drone Capabilities

By Cole Black

12.30.2025 at 06:00am

A Shield Made up of Well-directed Blows: Clausewitz and the New Logic of America’s Counter-Narcotics Campaign

By Clay Johnson

12.29.2025 at 06:00am

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