The US Army has signed a contract worth almost $1 billion with AeroVironment to procure Switchblade series kamikaze drones over the next five years. The goal is to increase the firepower of infantry units, particularly in view of potential conflicts with China in the Pacific. The effectiveness of such drones has already been proven in the Ukraine war.| THE DECODER
Within military studies, scholars regularly analyze and teach the strategies and victories of great military strategists, whether ancient (Sun Tzu), modern (Napoleon Bonaparte; cf. Chandler 1973), or contemporary (Erwin Rommel). Because these ‘dangerous minds’ are now long dead, scholars are forced to speculate about how they would have acted under various hypothetical scenarios (e.g., Brands…| Blog of the APA