China and Russia are syncing doctrine while NATO’s still drawing Cold War maps. What happens when Russian fires in Kaliningrad sync with Chinese A2/AD in the Taiwan Strait? Are we training to fight the last war while a new one is forming on the horizon?
Are we treating near-peer joint drills like the real war before the war? This piece breaks down what China and Russia’s joint exercises are truly signaling, how they’re merging doctrine and shaping the battlefield, and what U.S. and NATO forces must do doctrinally, operationally, and in training to stay ahead of their synchronized moves.
We examine how Russia, China, and Iran weaponize stories to shape battlefields before tanks roll, fracturing alliances and influencing policy through disinformation and narrative warfare. It also offers actionable recommendations for doctrine, training, and IO integration so NATO and the U.S. can win in the narrative domain before kinetic operations even begin.
How ready are we for a fight where the spectrum itself is the battlefield? Ukraine’s war has shown us that electromagnetic superiority is survival, not a luxury—and that your kill chain is only as good as your EW team can protect. Are your training plans ready to move past static to survival?
We breaks down how Ukraine’s battlefield improvisation with drones has rewritten the playbook for modern warfare. From quadcopters acting as scouts and fire coordinators to FPVs becoming the deadliest tools on the battlefield, this piece explores how combined arms tactics are evolving into decentralized, digital kill nodes. NATO and U.S. forces need to adapt fast—or get left behind under a sky full of drones.
“Dismount or Die drills into the brutal reality facing modern mechanized infantry in Ukraine, where dismounted squads are stalked by loitering munitions, drone-dropped grenades, and thermal ISR. This tactics-focused piece explores how NATO forces must re-learn light infantry fundamentals and evolve doctrine to survive under the constant gaze of cheap, deadly aerial threats.
A deep, boots-on-the-ground case study of modern urban warfare through the lens of Mariupol, Bakhmut, Chasiv Yar, and Toretsk. This analysis dissects how Ukraine and Russia adapted to the maze of city fighting, what bled each side, and what finally broke the lines—revealing urgent implications for U.S. and NATO ground doctrine. Urban war isn’t coming back—it never left, and it’s getting meaner.
Rebuilding the Kill Chain breaks down how NATO is shifting from counterinsurgency-era doctrine to a corps-level, LSCO-ready force. Drawing on Ukraine’s battlefield improvisations and China’s structured kill web development, this paper uses FM 3-09, JP 3-0, and ATP 2-33.4 to trace the kill chain’s transformation—faster, flatter, and fused across domains.
From Convoys to Cannonades. The era of maneuver dominance is over—fires are back on top. This article dives deep into how artillery, loitering munitions, and digitized kill chains have become the centerpiece of LSCO, with insights from Ukraine and China’s evolving doctrine.
We dig into the doctrinal gut-punch delivered by Ukraine’s first 90 days resisting Russia’s invasion. This doctrine shift look unpacks how kill chain compression, decentralized command, and drone-enabled ISR blew past legacy concepts of maneuver and fires—and explores how U.S. training centers like NTC and JRTC might adapt to war-game this new reality against a smarter, more chaotic OPFOR.
