The Strategic Current

  • The Current Brief 007

    Inflatable tanks, false radio traffic, and battlefield illusions. How a small U.S. Army unit helped mislead German forces.

  • The Current Brief 006

    The Hellfire changed the Predator’s mission. The bigger transformation involved the military system behind it.

  • The Current Brief 005

    Project Azorian: what the CIA intended to recover, what was actually lifted, and what the declassified evidence can establish.

  • The Current Brief 004

    Able Archer 83: Soviet alerts were real. How close was nuclear war? The records disagree.

  • The Current Brief 003

    Stuxnet and the Cyber-Physical Battlefield

  • The Current Brief 002

    The Doolittle Raid: How a Military Stunt Reshaped the Pacific War

  • The Current Brief 001

    Fritz Kolbe: The Spy Inside Nazi Germany