John Spencer

The Indian Army is Fast Tracking the Acquisition and Fielding of its Drone and Counter-drone capabilities During a recent research trip to India, we...

India’s response to the April 22, 2025 Pahalgam attack and the subsequent May 7–10, 2025 Operation Sindoor marked a decisive shift from reactive...

In the early hours of June 1, 2025, Ukraine launched a bold, coordinated drone assault deep into Russian territory, dubbed Operation Spider’s Web. The...

In urban warfare, where combat unfolds amid a multitude of civilians and dense infrastructures, maintaining legitimacy is not merely a legal...

Aleppo. Mosul.

Treat Cities Like Human Bodies Mosul has been wrested from the three-year-old grasp of ISIS. In Raqqa, the cityscape is one of ruin and devastation as...

The Army does not have a school for learning how to operate in dense urban terrain. Beyond simply training soldiers for such a complex setting, one of...

“The Army will never need to fight in a megacity. ” Over the past few months, MWI has published several articles exploring combat in megacities and...

Train as you fight. It’s the first of the Army’s ten principles of training , meant to ensure that the Army will develop and execute tough, realistic...

A few weeks ago, I published the article “ It’s Time to Create a Megacities Combat Unit . ” This article received both criticism and support.