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The IRGC will likely resist any invasion of Iranian territory with tenacity
Reporting on Iran is challenging, both from inside the country and from outside
The ballistic missile launches came days after Pyongyang had warned of "terrible consequences" over US-South Korea joint military drills
The effort has taken on new urgency nearly three weeks into the war with Iran, as oil prices soar above $100 a barrel
At least 11 people are injured as Israel strikes near the Lebanese Italian Hospital in Tyre, damaging the facility
British foreign minister Yvette Cooper stressed Thursday the "urgent need" to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and slammed Iran's "recklessness" as she convened a meeting of some 40 countries on the vital shipping route. Cooper said Iran's blockading of the waterway was "hitting our global economic security" as she kicked off the virtual meeting of international allies. The strait has been virtually closed since the US-Israeli war against Iran started on February 28, impacting global supplies of important commodities including oil, liquid natural gas, and fertiliser
The U.S. military spends billions trying to predict what its adversaries will do — and almost nothing testing whether its own plans make sense. In part, this asymmetry reflects the decline of red teaming, the practice of systematically challenging plans to expose biases, blind spots, and weak assumptions before they become operational liabilities. As U.S. adversaries become more sophisticated and the Department of Defense integrates AI into planning, restoring systematic self-critique isn’t optional — it’s urgent.Restoring red teaming will require updating how it was practiced in the past. There are four possible ways to make this happen: train all planners The post Who Stress-Tests U.S. War Plans? appeared first on War on the Rocks
The term "fog of war" usually describes the murkiness that combatants experience in conflict zones. For our purposes, it might also apply to the messages coming out of the White House over the past day or so
The leadership shake-up comes after President Trump insisted this week that the Iran war is nearly over
A Russian drone hit a covered market in the eastern Ukrainian city of Nikopol, officials said
PARIS, April 2 (Reuters) - French President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday it would be unrealistic to launch a military operation to force open the Strait of Hormuz, after U.S. President Donald Trump challenged U.S. allies to work towards reopening it. "Some people defend the idea of freeing the Strait of Hormuz by force via a military operation, a position sometimes expressed by the United States, although it has varied," Macron told reporters during a trip to South Korea