Warfare

Spy cockroaches and AI robots: Germany plots the future of warfare

Reuters spoke to two dozen executives, investors, and policymakers to examine how Germany - Europe's largest economy - aims to play a central role in rearming the continent.

A digital illustration released by Swarm Biotactics shows what they describe as cyborg cockroaches equipped with specialized backpacks that enable real-time data collection via cameras.
(Illustrative) A soldier holding futuristic technology.

What will future wars look like?

 US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over an undated US Air Force handout photo of a RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned aircraft

WATCH: US bureaucratic gloves are off: Hegseth says he has rescinded all drone production red tape

Smoke rises from Gaza after an explosion, near the Israel-Gaza border, as seen from Israel, May 29, 2025.

No one should want ceasefire in Gaza until clear defeat of Hamas - opinion


Unmanned aerial systems: The new face of 21st century warfare

From providing real-time intelligence to helping soldiers and commanders conduct assessments of whether enemies have been eliminated, drones play a role at every level of fighting.

 THE ROBOTICON Rooster rolls, climbs, flies and can carry sensors and cameras.  It can hover or be used as a stationary observer.

West Point expert calls Hezbollah pager attack 'unprecedented' in scale

John Spencer analyzed a recent attack on Hezbollah that involved pager explosions, injuring thousands and significantly disrupting the group's operations and morale.

A personnel of American University of Beirut Medical Center  stands next to an empty stretcher, as people, including Hezbollah fighters and medics, were wounded and killed when the pagers they use to communicate exploded across Lebanon, according to a security source, in Beirut, Lebanon September 17

Hamas releases video of slain Ori Danino saying 'People of Israel: Do not neglect us'

He addresses PM Benjamin Netanyahu and the war cabinet saying "you failed us on October 7."

 Ori Danino, as seen in the video

From the West Bank to US campuses, Iran's psychological influence is spreading - interview

Aviram Bellaishe, vice president at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, says Israel must work harder to counter Iranian psychological influence attempts

 PALESTINIAN TERRORISTS attend a protest against the killing of Palestinians in an Israeli strike at a tent camp in Khan Yunis, in the streets of Jenin.

Unintentional killings of WCK workers is tragic, but Hamas is still to blame for war - editorial

Yes, these incidents do happen in the less-than-sterile conditions of battle. They have happened to every country that has ever engaged in warfare.

A Palestinian inspects near a vehicle where employees from the World Central Kitchen (WCK), including foreigners, were killed in an Israeli airstrike

Russian plane has 'flown it's last': Ukraine downs surveillance craft - commander

The A-50 first came into use during the soviet era.

 A Russian A-50 aircraft.

IDF 'Ghost' unit uses new tech to fight Hamas in Gaza

The ‘Post’ spent an afternoon with Israel’s new elite multi-dimensional unit in Jabalya, as it neutralizes terrorist threats and works with the latest technology

 Members of the Multi-Dimensional 'Ghost' unit prepare to eliminate a threat with a tank in Jabalya.

AI and urban warfare in the Israel-Hamas war

“This is the first time Israel is faced with such a multifaceted, multifront war.” To complicate matters, attack drones and UAVs are being used by the enemy, raising the stakes.

 Israeli soldiers operate in the Gaza Strip amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in this screen grab taken from a handout video released on December 4, 2023.

From guerillas to Guernica: Tracing evolution of war and its lexicon

As war has played such a significant part of human history, it is a theme that figures largely in the realms of art, literature, and film.

 Mikhail Kalashnikov

Yom Kippur War: How ChatGPT can be use for military intel, war simulation - opinion

While technology cannot eliminate uncertainty or surprise, it can help decision-makers think about the future.

 A smartphone with a displayed ChatGPT logo is placed on a computer motherboard in this illustration taken February 23, 2023.

Israel's new Barak super tank: The future of Middle East warfare? - analysis

From the point of view of the Defense Ministry and IDF, the new Barak tank is the most advanced tank in the world today.

 The new Israeli "Barak" tank