War on the Rocks API, RSS and sitemap

Every article War on the Rocks publishes, as JSON, through an open API with no key and no signup. 157 of their articles are indexed right now, refreshed hourly.

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Four ways to pull warontherocks.com

All four are ours, all four are live, and none of them needs a key.

Call the API

A live request. Paste it into a terminal and War on the Rocks headlines come back as JSON.

curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?host=warontherocks.com&size=5"

Publishing volume

Articles per day over the last 59 days. The busiest hour is 07:00 UTC — that is when the newsroom pushes its main batch.

curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/stats?host=warontherocks.com&top=10"

Publishing rhythm

When War on the Rocks actually publishes, by hour of day (UTC) and by day of week — measured from 157 timestamps, not from a schedule they advertise.

Sections

Sections come from the publisher's own markup, present on 100% of their articles.

Languages

Latest articles

The 18 most recent War on the Rocks articles in the index — the same rows the API returns, rendered for humans.

The Fruit of Patience: How Regional Shifts Ripened Turkey’s Path to Kurdish Reconciliation

2026-09-04 07:30 UTC · Commentary · Riccardo Gasco; Samuele C A Abrami

On Aug. 25, at the People’s Palace in Damascus, Mazloum Abdi announced the dissolution of the Syrian Democratic Forces, which he had commanded for a

The Future of Combat Medicine

2026-09-03 17:30 UTC · In Brief · John Quinn; Kimberly Elenberg; Eric Elst

War has always been a brutal engine of medical innovation, running on a feedback loop: Civilian breakthroughs are adapted for the battlefield, while

Where Does AI Escalation Come From? We Don’t Know. We Should Find Out.

2026-09-03 07:30 UTC · Commentary · Dustin League; William Dawson

We played a wargame using AI players. Two nuclear-armed nations — Red and Blue — with a long-standing, fierce border dispute were placed into a

Russia’s Road to El Dorado

2026-09-03 07:00 UTC · Commentary · Raphael Parens

As a new convoy of Russian armored vehicles arrives from the port of Lomé to support Russia’s Africa Corps deployment in Mali, that mission has entered

Is Taiwanese Society Prepared for a China Contingency?

2026-09-02 17:30 UTC · Members · Michael A Hunzeker; Yuster Yu

In 2025, Michael Hunzeker and Yuster Yu wrote, “Taiwan’s Biggest Problem in Steeling Itself for War With China is Cultural,” where they argued major

European Resilience in Digital Infrastructure: The Changing Nature of State-Business Relations

2026-09-02 08:00 UTC · Cogs of War · Michiel Foulon; Ivan Zaccagnini

As the war in Ukraine progressed, Russian strikes increasingly degraded Ukraine’s terrestrial communications infrastructure, steadily deepening Kyiv’s

Ukraine’s Ground Robots and the Economics of Survival

2026-09-02 07:30 UTC · Commentary · Lesia Bidochko

In August 2024, special forces from five Ukrainian military intelligence units crossed the Black Sea to raid Russian-held Kinburn Spit. The commandos of

Why Are People Talking About a German Reset with Russia?

2026-09-02 07:15 UTC · Commentary · Ian Klinke; Jakub Eberle

The summer of 2026 has raised questions once again among politicians, diplomats, and academics about whether Germany might be about to dither on Russia.

The Atlantic Brief: U.S. and European Perspectives on Nuclear Deterrence

2026-09-01 18:45 UTC · Members · WOTR Staff

Date: Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2026 Time: 12:00-1:00 PM ET The second joint webinar by RUSI and War on the Rocks: Two leading defense publications from both

A Rulebook for Surprises: Commanding Autonomous Aircraft

2026-09-01 08:00 UTC · Cogs of War · Greg Search

My greatest challenge while flight testing collaborative combat aircraft was not troubleshooting errors at high speed in the cockpit. It was when, in a

The Educated Operator: Rethinking Lethality in Special Operations

2026-09-01 07:30 UTC · Commentary · Calvin Richards

Editor’s Note: While War on the Rocks has a high standard for allowing pseudonyms, this is an unusual case: U.S. Army Special Operations Command requires

The Political Constraint on America’s Data-Center Power Buildout

2026-09-01 07:00 UTC · Commentary · Javaid Iqbal Sofi

In April, President Donald Trump issued two Defense Production Act determinations covering grid infrastructure and large-scale energy infrastructure. One

The Divine Calculus of the Ukraine War's End

2026-08-31 16:35 UTC · Members · Nicole Wiley

Welcome to The Ukraine Compass, a weekly digest of Ukrainian commentary and analysis from across the political spectrum, only for War on the

The Quantum Stack and the Countdown to Q-Day

2026-08-31 08:00 UTC · Cogs of War · Cameron Chehreh; JD Dulny; Ben Gianni; J

Quantum's hype obscures a reality with real geopolitical stakes: the technology works and is advancing every day. Cameron Chehreh (IonQ), JD Dulny (Booz

Stop Using AI. Start Commanding It

2026-08-31 07:30 UTC · Commentary · Cody Nichols

Walk into the Pentagon, climb the escalator, and an Uncle Sam-style poster points at you: “I want YOU to use AI.” It worked. GenAI.mil hit 1.5 million

The (Un)importance of the Battle of Tours

2026-08-28 07:30 UTC · Commentary · Daniel Wollenberg

Editor’s note: This is the first article in a new occasional series featuring battles that just didn’t matter, may look important, but in fact had

Beneath the Surface: Overlooked Cyber Security Threats

2026-08-27 17:30 UTC · In Brief · Emily Harding; Caleb Withers; Elad Yoran

Cyber security remains a persistent concern for public and private sector organizations alike. Given the potential impact of cyber threats from criminal

The Goldilocks Fallacy: The Undefined Limits of Korea’s Nuclear Role

2026-08-27 07:30 UTC · Commentary · Hanbyeol Sohn; Kyung Suk Lee

“Unthreatening and respectful.” That is how the president of the United States described North Korea on Aug. 16, 2026, in his social media post ordering

Harvest it all

Page through the archive by date. from and to accept YYYY-MM-DD or relative values such as now-7d.

curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?host=warontherocks.com&from=now-7d&size=100"

To poll for new material, keep the timestamp of the newest article you saw and ask only for what came after it:

curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?host=warontherocks.com&from=now-1h&sort=date_asc"

Article bodies come with full_text=true. No key, no quota tier, no header — see the search endpoint for every parameter.

Metadata quality

How well War on the Rocks marks up its own pages — useful if you are deciding whether to parse them yourself.

Crawl lag — the delay between publication and the article reaching this index — is 677 min at the median, 1713 minutes at the 90th percentile.

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FAQ

Does War on the Rocks have an official API?

Not a public one. This endpoint is the practical alternative: their articles as structured JSON, with title, lead, publication time, section, byline and a link back to the original.

How do I get their RSS feed?

Most publishers expose one at /rss or /feed, but feeds carry only the last few dozen items and drop them within hours. This index keeps 157 of their articles and lets you filter by date, language and section.

How many articles does War on the Rocks publish per day?

3 on a median day, measured across 59 days.

Can I use this commercially?

The API is free and unauthenticated. What you may do with the content is between you and the publisher: we return metadata, a lead paragraph and a link, not a licence.