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What effect did the curtailment of a US–South Korean combined exercise have on the system of conventional-nuclear integration that produces the plans, procedures, and habits necessary for a coordinated response to any aggression? mwi.westpoint.edu/ulchi-free…
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"Users, sessions, and agents built are throughput measures. They indicate how fast the herd is moving and say nothing about direction or destination." mwi.westpoint.edu/the-us-mil…
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"Operation Vivaldi demonstrated how when Russia’s problems mount, opportunities may emerge for breakthroughs; the question remains whether Ukraine has organized to exploit them at the scale and tempo required for a decisive victory." mwi.westpoint.edu/an-overtur…
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Retired Colonel Patrick Howell served in the Ranger Regiment, at Joint Special Operations Command, and as an ISAF planner and the head of the Modern War Institute at West Point. He joins Charlie Faint on this episode of THE SPEAR. mwi.westpoint.edu/podcast-th…
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Ulchi Freedom Shield: One Shortened Exercise Does Not Mean US–South Korean Conventional-Nuclear Integration Is Breaking Down mwi.westpoint.edu/ulchi-free…
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"The English defeat [at Bannockburn] was not the result of inferior weapons, but of a failure to build a system that allowed superior weapons to function.... That warning should echo ominously across the centuries and the Taiwan Strait." mwi.westpoint.edu/the-drones…
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Ukraine's Operation Vivaldi has seen hints a of maneuver warfare return to its war against Russia. What would Ukraine need to do to expand on it and truly achieve an operational-level breakthrough? mwi.westpoint.edu/an-overtur…
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What would a combined arms formation fully integrated with drones—the right ones at the right echelon—look like? mwi.westpoint.edu/integratin…
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Legacy procurement processes are much too slow to keep pace with AI technology, and the Pentagon is right to address that issue. But those processes also had built-in accountability mechanisms. If they aren't replaced, it's going to be a problem. mwi.westpoint.edu/the-us-mil…
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Podcast: The Spear – ISAF Planner in Afghanistan mwi.westpoint.edu/podcast-th…
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You probably know about how decisive the longbow was at the battles of Crécy and Agincourt. But do you know about the earlier battle where the English were routed despite being equipped with longbows? It holds lessons for today's drone warfare. mwi.westpoint.edu/the-drones…
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An Overture to Victory: Operation Vivaldi and Ukraine’s Path to Battlefield Decision mwi.westpoint.edu/an-overtur…
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A military can't fight if it can't repair, replace, modify, and manufacture its equipment. In large-scale war against a capable adversary, that will make 3D printing not a convenience, but a requirement. mwi.westpoint.edu/what-is-3d…
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"The Army should not bind future thought to yesterday’s platforms or organizational assumptions. Nor should it abandon the enduring logic of combined arms in pursuit of technological novelty." mwi.westpoint.edu/integratin…
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The US Military Is on an AI Sprint. Its Accountability Mechanisms Are Still in the Starting Blocks. mwi.westpoint.edu/the-us-mil…
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"Operation Vivaldi was built on a months-long crescendo of preparation. It demonstrated how Ukraine might achieve an operational-level breakthrough on the contemporary battlefield." mwi.westpoint.edu/an-overtur…
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The Drones of Bannockburn: A Fourteenth-Century Battle’s Bloody Lessons for Taiwan’s Defense mwi.westpoint.edu/the-drones…
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These are the seven categories of drones that Army combined arms teams need to integrate into their formations and operations to succeed on the modern battlefield. mwi.westpoint.edu/integratin…
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It's time to consider armor's next transformation. mwi.westpoint.edu/armors-nex…
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"The critical difference from Wong and Gerras matters here. In their model, practitioners know they are equivocating. They feel the moral weight of the compromise even while making it. In the AI-amplified version, that awareness may not be present at all." mwi.westpoint.edu/the-us-mil…
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