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Probal DasGupta, (Juggernaut, 2020). pp. 296. Some victories fade not because they were small, but because they were inconvenient to remember. Probal DasGupta’s Watershed 1967: India’s Forgotten Victory Over China corrects one such omission, and does so with the pace of a thriller and the rigour of serious military history. The book resurrects the September… Read more →
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Abstract: Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming an unavoidable element of higher education, military training, and language learning. For future officers, however, English proficiency cannot be reduced to the efficient production of grammatically acceptable texts or rehearsed oral responses. Within the NATO environment, preparation for STANAG 6001 must remain anchored in independent, unrehearsed, general communicative ability… Read more →
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Abstract: Seabed warfare is transforming maritime strategy by shifting competition from platforms and manoeuvre toward infrastructure, connectivity, and persistent monitoring, influence and selective control over the benthic domain. Growing dependence on critical undersea infrastructure, combined with advances in autonomous systems and distributed sensing, is turning the seabed into an active and contested battlespace. This article… Read more →
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Abstract: The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into military domains, particularly in Lethal Autonomous Weapons, raises significant ethical and legal concerns in a contested and incomplete normative framework. This paper critically examines these challenges to assess the adequacy of existing legal norms and ethical frameworks governing the deployment of autonomous and semi-autonomous systems. The paper… Read more →
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Abstract: The integration of generative artificial intelligence into officer education represents a significant innovation that challenges doctrines, practices, and pedagogical strategies. At the same time, it demands a balance between the potential of generative artificial intelligence and the cadets’ autonomy to critically analyse and correlate the knowledge transmitted. In this exploratory-descriptive study, a questionnaire was… Read more →
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Abstract: Beyond their socio-economic implications, disruptive technologies influence all instruments of state power, especially the military. Artificial intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), and autonomous systems are transforming traditional ways of thinking, leadership concepts, and processes, necessitating new approaches to prepare military decision-makers at all levels of command for a complex, technology-driven environment. This article explores… Read more →
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Abstract: NATO has spent three years building the technical scaffolding to field autonomous systems across its member states, and has largely succeeded at interoperability, defined as an engineering property: allied machines can operate as one. It has not resolved a harder property of authority. When an autonomous system proposes a lethal action faster than a… Read more →
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Abstract: Growing economic asymmetry between inexpensive offensive systems and costly defensive architectures is reshaping escalation dynamics in contemporary warfare. Focusing on the period from 2022 to the present, the analysis examines case studies from the Russia-Ukraine war, Iran’s regional strategy in the Middle East, and recent India-Pakistan crises in South Asia. Drawing on insights from… Read more →
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Abstract: Germany’s official security discourse has increasingly embraced the concept of integrated security. The 2023 National Security Strategy, the Operational Plan for Germany, the institutionalisation of Heimatschutz, the Bundeswehr reserve network, and the country’s strong voluntary civil-protection culture all point in the same direction: security is increasingly understood as a whole-of-state and whole-of-society problem. Yet… Read more →
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Abstract: The war in Ukraine demonstrates that drone warfare is a potential catalyst for profound transformation. Unmanned aerial systems have reshaped battlefield awareness, accelerated decision-making, and redistributed authority to lower tactical levels. This shift challenges traditional hierarchical command structures and exposes tensions between doctrine and operational reality within NATO and EU armed forces. Despite ongoing… Read more →
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