Category: Defense One

  • How the U.S. Military Is Making AI Drones Plug-and-Play

    The United States Air Force is testing open autonomy using A GRA on drone wingmen from General Atomics and Anduril Industries, allowing software from RTX Collins Aerospace and Shield AI to run across platforms.

  • The US Shouldn’t Ignore Pakistan’s Arms Industry

    Washington is missing a strategic opening by ignoring Pakistan’s fast-growing, cost-effective arms industry, especially as China’s footprint deepens.

  • DOE Seeks Batteries With Four Times the Juice

    ARPA-E is backing a moonshot: build battery systems with 4× today’s lithium-ion energy density, and do it in two years. Six teams have been picked to move from lab chemistry to scalable prototypes that could supercharge drones, robots, and aircraft.

  • NATO Rushes to Greenland

    Sweden and other NATO allies are moving personnel, aircraft and ships toward Greenland after US–Denmark–Greenland talks in Washington failed to soften the Trump team’s push to “acquire” the territory. Denmark is ramping up Arctic defence activity (including its 1st Brigade) as allies prep for Denmark’s Operation Arctic Endurance, while the UK weighs joining.

  • China’s AI Logistics for Future Wars

    China’s PLA is wiring logistics into a “smart” kill-chain: always-on sensing, AI routing, and unmanned last-mile resupply. The goal is simple: keep troops fed, fuelled, and armed under fire, especially in a Taiwan-scale fight.

  • China’s AI-powered military logistics system

    China’s PLA is quietly rebuilding warfare’s least glamorous function with AI, sensors, and autonomous delivery. Logistics is becoming the backbone of how China plans to fight its next war.

  • The $148 Billion Failure

    After $148 billion and two decades, America’s effort to rebuild Afghanistan collapsed under corruption, waste, and ignored warnings. A final watchdog report lays bare how failure was visible years before the end.

  • Massive Pentagon AI Upgrade Drops in Weeks

    The Pentagon is racing to push AI tools across logistics, intelligence, and combat planning, making wide-scale deployment its top priority. With Gemini for Government as the chosen platform, the U.S. military is preparing for an era shaped by AI-powered warfare, great-power rivalry, and unprecedented technological acceleration.

  • Why Ukraine Is the U.S.’s Lifeline in the Future of War

    The U.S. is racing to build cheaper, battlefield-ready drones, but Ukraine’s frontline innovators are still leagues ahead, exposing gaps in American testing, tech, and political will. As Washington hesitates, Kyiv fears becoming both the proving ground and the sacrifice in a war it can’t afford to lose.

  • The U.S. Is Building a Counter-Drone Marketplace

    The U.S. Army is creating a first-of-its-kind online marketplace to help agencies quickly buy vetted tools to combat small drones. The goal: a unified, smarter, nationwide counter-UAS strategy for threats that are evolving faster than the current system can keep up.