NATO learns as Ukraine's 'creativity' changes battlefield

U.S. should learn, not lecture: Israel and Ukraine show tactical brilliance

While Americans famously always prepare for and fight the last war, Israel and Ukraine catch opponents off-guard with innovation. By Michael Rubin, Middle East Forum Too often, policymakers in the White House and Pentagon, or pundits on cable news shows, approach war fighting in far-off lands with a 6,000-mile screwdriver. They try to dictate strategy and often criticize states for their failure to follow U.S. practices. Many proponents of and p…

Ukraine's 'Black Cloud' artwork to evoke war at Burning Man festival

KYIV - A massive black cloud has stood in Kyiv's historic Sophia Square this week, emitting flashes of lightning and the rumble of thunder in evocation of war, before it travels to the Burning Man art festival in the United States later this year. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Ukraine’s ‘spider’s web’ attack was a game changer — Nato’s top admiral explains why

BRUSSELS, June 10 — Ukraine’s “creativity”, including its massive “Spider’s web” drone attack deep inside Russia, holds profound lessons for Western militaries, the top Nato commander overseeing battlefield innovation told AFP. “What the Ukrainians did in Russia was a Trojan horse — and the trojan horse was thousands of years ago,” French Admiral Pierre Vandier, Nato’s Supreme Allied Commander Transformation, said in an interview. “Today, we see…

Russia’s Pearl Harbour: Escalating the Horrors of War

In a dramatic escalation of the ongoing conflict, Ukraine launched a highly sophisticted drone strike on Russian airbases, reportedly damaging and destroying a substantial portion of Moscow’s strategic bomber fleet. This operation, codenamed “Spiderweb,” involved the deployment of 117 AI-guided drones, which targeted five key Russian airbases across regions including Murmansk, Irkutsk, Ivanovo, Ryazan, and Amur. The attack resulted in the destru…

‘Spider’s Web’ warning: The US must prioritize drone defense to avoid Russia’s fate

CNAS's Stacie Pettyjohn and Molly Campbell argue in this op-ed that Ukraine's clandestine operation should be a wake-up call for the US military and its own base defense.

What Ukraine's 'Creative' Spider's Web Drone Attack Taught NATO

Ukraine's "creativity", including its massive "Spider's web" drone attack deep inside Russia, holds profound lessons for Western militaries, the top NATO commander overseeing battlefield innovation said.