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From military mapping to brain imaging, holograms are no longer relegated to your bank card.
Every year, thousands of active military and veterans enroll as undergrads, but only half leave with a degree. What cheap and effective strategies could help our military complete college?
(UPDATED) If the military abandons Venezuela’s power-grabbing president, it’s game over for the Maduro regime.
Contemporary television is replete with gruesome tests of survival, charting our obsession with what modern man has lost.
Trump’s first budget proposal would boost defense spending by US$52 billion, but his desired military buildup is premised on misleading claims and lacks a strategic vision.
For Gabonese officers, military interventions like that underway now in the Central African Republic, are also a pathway to politics.
Armed forces around the world are exploring technological and biological enhancements to their soldiers. But this raises a number of serious ethical concerns, before, during and after conflict.
Targeted killing – the killing of specific individuals usually performed by drones – is a globally expanding practice.
Maybe you think neuroscience has a peaceable history of benign efforts to improve lives and enhance human capacities. But its origins and development tell a different story – with ethical implications.
The difficulties that soldiers face when returning home from battle are part of an old, old story.
A more muscular foreign policy in our region would carry risks, but it might also show Australia and its neighbours that the US has its interests at heart.
Why would you lie about battlefield honours?
In less than a week, Americans will choose their next president. And either way, there are problems on a foerign policy level.
When it loses the UK, the EU loses an important military power, which makes the remaining countries keener than ever to collaborate.
What is hybrid warfare, and why would Australia benefit from its technological developments?
As military organisations become less oriented towards violence, the traditional, aggressive, warrior-like culture of the military has to be balanced with new task requirements.
The author sat in on one of the Swedish military’s virtual reality training exercises. Here’s what they saw.
There’s no doubt it was time for the United Nations mission in Liberia to end. But there are some gaps in the country’s plan to move on without the men and women in blue helmets.
Equality is coming to the British Armed Forces, whether it’s wanted or not.
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