⚡️ Welcome to Laser Wars, a newsletter on military laser weapons and other futuristic defense technology.
The mission of Laser Wars is simple: to follow the development and deployment of military laser weapons (and other frontier defense tech) around the world and chronicle how they’re changing modern warfare.
I’m Jared Keller, a defense technology writer and former managing editor of Military.com and Task & Purpose. I’ve previously written about advanced military tech from powered exoskeletons and jet packs to electromagnetic railguns and the still-unfolding drone revolution, among other topics. Laser Wars draws its name from the title of a May 2024 article I wrote for WIRED about the US military’s first official deployment of high-energy laser weapons overseas for counter-drone defense.
My recent reporting on laser weapons has been cited in Axios, Task & Purpose, The Telegraph, and WBUR (as well as New York magazine’s Substack, for some reason!)
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