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WASHINGTON: The Army’s AI-driven battle networks are taking a world tour of live-fire wargames. Having wrapped up an exercise in Washington State last month with the Army’s experimental Multi-Domain Task Force, the AI wargames will head to Europe in May and to the Pacific in July, before returning to the US for the climactic Project Convergence exercises in the fall. The goal of these wargames: stress-test AI algorithms and network connections in conditions close to combat as real soldiers fire live weapons like HIMARS rocket launchers, M777 howitzers, and (in Project Convergence) prototy...

Share This: After a long period of hibernation, tension in the Arctic is increasing, with military build-ups and encounters there between the U.S. and its near-peer competitors, Russia and China. In a reflection of that tension, the Army recently released a strategy meant to secure its military preeminence in the Arctic. Dubbed “Regaining Arctic Dominance,” the strategy aims to create a dedicated headquarters and specialized Arctic warfare units, improve infrastructure in the region, and invest in individual and collective training. Although mentioned only briefly in the document, Army sp...

By   Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. on April 20, 2021 at 6:01 AM Technicians work with a robot’s control system during last fall’s Project Convergence wargames. WASHINGTON: Hundreds of scientists, engineers, and support staff at nine locations worked feverishly earlier this month testing dozens of technologies ahead of this fall’s joint Project Convergence wargames. The hub for the event, Communications Exercise (COMEX) 2, was a new facility at the Army’s Aberdeen, Md. C5ISR Center, the Joint Systems Integration Laboratory. Gen. James McConville The JSIL was touted by no less a figure tha...

The Nation, check out our latest issue. Subscribe to Support Progressive Journalism The Nation is reader supported: Chip in $10 or more to help us continue to write about the issues that matter. Sign up for our Wine Club today. Did you know you can support The Nation by drinking wine? We may be ending the era of “forever wars,” as suggested by President Biden in a televised address on April 15, but that does not mean an end to US involvement in foreign wars. Rather, we are entering a new era of military competition with Russia and China that could easily result in short but very ...

By James Carstensen | April 14, 2021 | 7:42pm EDT Defense Secretary Gen. Lloyd Austin with German Defence Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer in Berlin this week. (Photo by Kay Nietfeld/Pool/AFP via Getty Images) Berlin (CNSnews.com) – The Biden administration has pledged to boost U.S. troop numbers in Germany by another 500, in a reversal of the Trump administration’s move last year to reduce the footprint in the country. Defense Secretary Gen. Lloyd Austin made the announcement during his first diplomatic trip to Berlin, saying Germany would receive 5...