The high-profile failure of a $3.7B aircraft carrier shows how Britain is struggling to keep up with first-rate militaries
The HMS Queen Elizabeth Royal Navy aircraft carrier leaves Portsmouth Harbour in the UK on November 3, 2023. Andrew Matthews…
The world’s most powerful militaries in 2023, ranked
Pakistani military personnel stand beside a Shaheen III surface-to-surface ballistic missile during Pakistan Day military parade in Islamabad, Pakistan, in…
NATO militaries struggling to spend their budgets
Major weapons manufacturers met government and military officials in Berlin this week to discuss European defense. A shared frustration: How…
Ukraine’s counteroffensive raises doubts about whether the US and Western militaries are training their troops for the right kind of war
A soldier gives instructions to a tank crew during an exercise in Ukraine on May 5. Viktor Fridshon/Global Images Ukraine…
Ukrainian special operators are learning to fight Russia without the ‘tethers’ other militaries have gotten used to
A Ukrainian artillery unit fires toward Russian positions on the outskirts of Bakhmut in December. SAMEER AL-DOUMY/AFP via Getty Images…
Future wars are going to be catastrophic and robotic, and militaries have to ‘come to grips’ with that, former general says
Soldiers from 1st Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment (Gimlets), 2 IBCT, 25th Infantry Division deployed to Kahuku Training Area Oahu, Hawaii…
The F-35 is becoming the most popular fighter jet among NATO militaries — with one ‘baffling’ exception
Turkey takes delivery of its first F-35 at a ceremony in Texas in June 2018. Atilgan Ozdil/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images Romania…
The war in Ukraine has shown the value of tanks, but militaries are now looking to stock up on slimmed-down versions of them
Soviet light tanks in 1936. Sovfoto/Universal Images Group via Getty Images The war in Ukraine has generated renewed interest in…
Rising tensions with Russia have NATO militaries worried about the revival of a Cold War-era submarine threat
An undersea cable is laid to Hiddensee island in the Baltic Sea in July 2009. Ullstein Bild/Getty NATO militaries are…
Smart bombs were a game-changer for militaries. Smart bullets may be next.
A US soldier scans the Narang Valley in Afghanistan's Konar province with an BGM-71 TOW missile on May 9, 2009.…