For the military professional reading military history is important because it provides valuable lessons, insights, and context for strategic thinking and decision-making in modern warfare.

This article provides a sobering account by a military historian Paul Fussell—who served in WW2 as an infantry officer—of what war is really like.

1950-1953: Korean War; fought between North Korea (supported by China, USSR) and South Korea (supported by UN, US). Ended in an armistice.

In the Battle of Britain, the UK employed an integrated air defence system to deny Nazi Germany air superiority over the English Channel and prevented Germany from invading the UK.

Cheaper and more manoeuvrable spacecraft might change the way the US military operates in space.

Artificial intelligence (AI) has been developed into much more than assisting in data entry; an AI can now learn (machine learning) and make decisions based on algorithms and feedback.

The BBC reports that the chip designer ARM Ltd’s method of designing chip architecture—might be how all new microchips will be designed in the future.