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Reports of Iranian child recruitment revive scrutiny of regime’s wartime methods
Fresh reports that Iranian authorities are drawing children as young as 12 into war-support roles have renewed attention to one of the most controversial aspects of the Islamic Republic’s security doctrine: the use of minors in support of state military…
The Cartridge Debate Revisited: How Modern Ammunition Is Reinventing the Infantry Soldier
It is easy to assume that the defining technologies of modern warfare are those that dominate the headlines: drones hovering silently above contested frontiers, satellites mapping every inch of terrain, or hypersonic missiles racing across continents. Yet the infantry soldier…
Tradition, Loyalty and a Modern Battlefield: The Enduring Bond Between Britain & The Gurkha
On a bitter February morning at Gamecock Barracks in Nuneaton, a group of young men stood immaculately aligned on the parade square, their breath visible in the winter air. For them, the cold was incidental. The real significance lay in…
The Sound of War: British Troops Gain Instant Fire Detection Capability
War, for all its technological flourish, still hinges on a primitive human limitation: you cannot react to what you cannot find. For centuries soldiers have fought enemies they could hear but not see — the crack of a rifle, the…
The infantry rifle is changing — and so is war: what modern assault-weapon design tells us about the battlefields of the 21st century
For most of the Cold War the infantry rifle was, in strategic terms, almost a settled question. You could walk into a Warsaw Pact armoury and find a Kalashnikov; into a NATO one and find some variant of the AR-15…
Project NYX: Inside the Ambitious ‘Wingman’ Programme Steering the Future of Warfare
The UK government has unveiled the next phase of a pioneering defence initiative that could redefine modern combat. Known as Project NYX, the programme seeks to breathe life into a new generation of autonomous helicopter-borne drones designed to operate alongside…
Cold Response 26: Alliance Strength Tested by Arctic Extremes and Political Tensions
This March, the frozen landscapes of northern Norway will once again echo to the cadence of multinational military manoeuvres as Exercise Cold Response 26 brings together some 28,000 troops from the United States and NATO partners for one of the…
Beneath the rubble of war, British Army medics fight a different kind of battle
War has always demanded courage, but few roles require quite the same combination of skill, calm and self-sacrifice as that of the military medic. While soldiers are trained to close with and defeat the enemy, Army medical personnel are trained…
How France’s SCORPION Vehicles Are Being Transformed to Fight the Drone Menace
In the evolving theatre of modern war, one threat has proven both ubiquitous and vexing: the small, agile drone. From the deserts of the Middle East to the plains of Eastern Europe, unmanned aerial systems (UAS) have become indispensable to…
U.S.A.F. Strategic Airlift Delivers Special Forces to UK Air Bases
According to flight tracking data and aerospace observers, a cluster of U.S. Air Force strategic airlift flights has been arriving at RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire and RAF Mildenhall in Suffolk. These are not the routine rotations of personnel and materiel…