A Ukrainian grandmother disabled a Russian fiber-optic FPV drone by removing its thread spool after it landed, rendering it inoperable. The incident highlights civilian involvement in Ukraine's defense against Russian forces.
On June 13, 2025, Israel used AI-guided drones to disable Iran's air defenses in a coordinated strike, while Ukraine had similarly employed AI-trained drones to strike Russian bombers in Siberia. These incidents exemplify how AI-enabled drone technology is reshaping warfare and international politics, potentially weakening state control over territory and empowering non-state actors to conduct destabilizing attacks on distant infrastructure.
Russia used an AI-powered autonomous drone to strike a gas station in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, killing three civilians including an 18-year-old student. Both Russia and Ukraine are developing battlefield management systems that integrate AI-driven drones with artillery and reconnaissance to compress kill chains, though both claim to maintain human decision-making authority.
This historiographical essay examines how Anglo-American strategists from 1950 onward reinterpreted Clausewitz's On War through three distinct intellectual schools—strategic holism, atomism, and relativism—reflecting a fundamental shift in how strategy evolved from a military practice into an abstract theoretical framework for policymakers and civilian experts.
An interactive database documenting deaths caused by 19 G20 nations from 1901 to 2025, estimating 177–400 million people killed through internal repression, external warfare, and exogenous disasters. The analysis categorizes mass-casualty events by type and century, presenting data through filterable charts and rankings to examine the human cost of building the modern world.
Russian developers used Claude AI to build autonomous drone swarm software for target selection and coordination in Ukraine, while state-backed hackers increasingly leverage AI for cyber-attacks against Ukrainian officials. Anthropic's report details how bad actors circumvented geographic restrictions, as Russian drone strikes continue targeting Kyiv's infrastructure and Putin blames Western pressure for the conflict.
Russia has rapidly adapted Iran's Shahed attack drone into its Geran variant, continuously modifying its systems in response to Ukrainian defenses through a fast feedback cycle measured in weeks. This wartime iteration model—integrating commercial electronics and testing modifications in combat—demonstrates a developmental advantage that the United States currently lacks the organizational capacity to match.