Tag Archives: War

The news broke after Shabbat: “Iran has fired dozens of drones at Israel, and they could arrive in nine hours.” It seemed almost surreal. Iran had been threatening action since the beginning of the war, and now, due to Israel’s strike on one of their high-ranking generals, they had …

Cryptocurrency prices fell Saturday evening after Iran launched a wave of drones at Israel, marking an early indication of the turmoil that could hit markets as investors start to price in the threat of a broader Middle East war. Bitcoin was down 5% from its price on Friday, while ether …

Juggling two jobs is hard work. It’s particularly hard work when one of the jobs is in a warzone. But for Ivan Kaunov, the roles are complementary. As the CEO and co-founder of Buntar Aerospace, Kaunov develops drones for long-range flights. As a member of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, he …

Navalny supporters chant outside funeral service in Moscow For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails The power supply to large swathes of Crimea has been severed as the region was …

On a recent afternoon in Kyiv, Ukraine, about 20 skilled workers were busy producing high-end military drones at a workshop called Airlogix.  Alexey, one of the workers, was making a mold for the back wing of a drone. “We focus on the quality,” he said. “We can’t allow there to …

Russia has a huge reserve of main battle tanks. Russia is also still producing tanks at a good pace. This is what we’re being told, but the fact is that Russia is upgrading antique T-62s and sending them to great Ukrainian drones. This bizarre situation shows either the great pace …

Israel’s use of artificial intelligence to help its forces select targets for air strikes worries A.I. skeptics and human-rights advocates. A targeting A.I. is only as smart as the people who trained it—and those people are prone to dropping bombs in the wrong places, these experts warned. All that is …

North Korea vowed to launch three new spy satellites, build military drones, and boost its nuclear arsenal in 2024 as leader Kim Jong Un said U.S. policy is making war inevitable, state media reported on Sunday. Kim lashed out at Washington in lengthy remarks wrapping up five days of …

The US has just unveiled an ambitious program that aims to field massive numbers of drones to overwhelm potential adversaries through the sheer mass of numbers. Such a program may be a game-changer in great power competition, which raises the possibility of large-scale industrial wars of attrition. Late last month, multiple media outlets reported that the …

Politicians and pundits want to declaim the lessons we should learn from Russia’s war against Ukraine despite the fact that the war — now eighteen months old — may not yet have reached its halfway point. Russian President Putin, as I have written before, wants to keep the war going …