Recent decisions by several European nations to withdraw from the Ottawa Convention—a treaty banning the use of anti-personnel landmines—mark a significant shift in international security policy. To sum up: it seems like a whole lot of people who were really ...
In recent decades, the People’s Republic of China has emerged as a formidable global power, with economic, political, and military influence extending far beyond its borders. Yet, behind the impressive surface of modernization lies a critical vulnerability: what Chinese analysts ...
If you want to understand the future of warfare, stop binge-watching Tic-Tok kill cam drone footage and start watching the real world burn. Ukraine and Gaza are modern crucibles—two conflicts, different in politics and scale, but united by what they ...
As my co-author and I mentioned in an article here on The Havok Journal–and many others said long before us–Amateurs talk strategy. Professionals talk logistics. But in the Pacific theater, where contested seas, long-range fires, and island chains define the ...
Over 2,400 years ago, an Athenian general and historian named Thucydides chronicled a brutal, generation-defining conflict between Athens and Sparta. His work, The History of the Peloponnesian War, has endured not just as a military record but as a timeless ...
Editor’s Note: the image used for this article is AI generated and intended to represent a generalized hostage release, not necessarily that of Edan Alexander. Edan Alexander is finally home. After 580 days of captivity in Gaza, the last known ...
On May 29, 1944, the commander in chief of the Allied Expeditionary Air Forces, Air Chief Marshall Trafford Leigh-Mallory, expressed his concerns to General Dwight D. Eisenhower about calling off the parachute operations associated with Operation Overlord. Leigh-Mallory warned Eisenhower ...
by a former Special Forces Officer “I know that I will be called upon to perform tasks in isolation, far from familiar faces and voices.” -The Special Forces Creed ____________________ Romanian Ministry of Defense (Image Credit: This other World website) ...
“There are no disasters, only opportunities. And, indeed, opportunities for fresh disasters.” – Boris Johnson “The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.” – Colin Wilson _________________________ I ...
Source National security has entered a new era where technology plays a dominant role. Traditional methods like physical border control and human intelligence are still relevant, but digital advancements have reshaped how nations protect themselves. Governments, security agencies, and defense ...