With a new age of empires seemingly on the immediate horizon, militaries across the world are scrambling for a new great equalizer on the battlefield: AI.

Foreign policy professionals are turning to AI for advice. That's not the scary part. The scary part is how they'll get that advice.

The Night King's army of the undead was an invincible foe in Westeros. But how well would his wights do against modern weapons, and could the defenders of Winterfell have replicated them?

The American military may be the best in the world, but too often, it's fighting 21st-century wars with 20th-century ideas. Its foreign counterparts have an opportunity to master the wars of the future.

Some 25 underwater mines mysteriously exploded in the summer of 1972. A newly declassified report points its finger at a surprising culprit: the sun.

American fighter jets aren't as combat ready as the military wants them to be. But the biggest challenge to meeting readiness goals aren't older airframes. Some of the newest and most capable fighters are looking a little iffy...

A new report by a congressional watchdog finds that a stunning number of weapon and military communication systems are easy targets for tech-savvy adversaries.

Another short sci-fi story for your weekend distraction.

Let's not surgarcoat this. We will build autonomous killer robots because we have every incentive to. So let's make sure we get them right.

Asteroid mining may require changes to The Outer Space Treaty and the consequences of amending it badly could be very serious...

The idea that Jade Helm is a dress rehearsal for a military takeover of America is just a rehash of conspiracy radio's greatest hits. So why are so many pundits trying to justify conspiracy theorists' fears?

Giant bipedal robots look cool in anime and movies. In real life, you probably wouldn't want to use them to fight giant eldritch creatures made of teeth, fangs, and acid.

Riot is being pitched as a digital, hyper-aware spy. It's nothing more than a simple data aggregator from public social media profiles.

Military blogger invokes theoretical computer science in a post about testing code for fighter jets and gets the fundamentals wrong.

The international community is trying to jump ahead of autonomous killer robots, but the messiness of war means they have few answers to the crisis they imagine.