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An autonomous weapon does not possess legal authority. Commanders and operators do. But every autonomous weapon still has an engineering permission state: the set of actions its software is allowed […] The post The First Clean Signal Is Not Permission to Fire: On Resilience and Governance of Autonomous Systems appeared first on Modern War Institute .
The United States invests billions of dollars in advanced weapons. And yet it could still be unable to generate combat power at the rate a campaign requires—because of low-visibility frailties […] The post An Explosive Problem: Energetics, Supply Chain Fragility, and US Military Readiness appeared first on Modern War Institute .
In the summer of 2023, during Ukraine’s southern counteroffensive, I watched two soldiers working under a camouflage net behind a battered school in Zaporizhzhia carry out in ninety seconds a […] The post The Unmanned Fires Observer: The Army’s Drone-Age Doctrine Rewrite Is Skipping a Crucial Part appeared first on Modern War Institute .
Thirty live video feeds fill an operator’s Vezha dashboard. More are available, but these are the thirty selected for the current fight. The operator has filtered the larger pool by […] The post Borrow What Works: The Case for Army Adoption of Ukraine’s Combat-Tested Horizontal Kill Web Architecture appeared first on Modern War Institute .
The battlefield in Ukraine is becoming increasingly transparent, increasingly lethal, and increasingly difficult to command. Unmanned aircraft systems watch movement far beyond the forward line. First-person-view drones turn fleeting observation […] The post Drones Have Changed the Battlefield—They Have Not Solved the Command Problem appeared first on Modern War Institute .
