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In the military, when a complex new mechanical system is introduced, we don't shut down operations out of fear; instead, we learn how to operate it, adapt our standards, and put it to work. On a ...

Executive Summary Golden Dome has quickly become the signature defense program of President Trump's second term. The most contentious element of this ambitious missile defense program is ...

The dispute about Greenland between the U.S. (primarily President Trump) and Denmark has died down. But it is necessary to understand what that discussion was and appreciate the importance of that ...

When Anthropic released Mythos, one of the most powerful artificial intelligence (AI) models to date, attention focused on the risks of the breakthrough technology, especially its ability to find and ...

From the comfort of an office, a drone operator executed a lethal standoff strike in Yemen on Anwar al-Awlaki, a senior al-Qaeda operative and U.S. citizen, from the other side of the planet in ...

The future of drone warfare belongs to adaptive synthetic organisms, not flying flocks of kamikazes -- swarms that can lose parts, reassign functions, and keep fighting, as living systems ...

At the 2025 NATO summit, every NATO country except Spain agreed to raise their defense spending to 5% of GDP. Among the most important commitments was from Germany, an alliance leader due to its ...

Washington should press Taipei to strengthen its defenses without suggesting that American support depends on Taiwan passing an ever-moving readiness test. This month, Taiwan's Cabinet approved a ...

Newport News Shipbuilding builds Columbia- and Virginia-class submarines. To become a welder there, a person needs to be eighteen, a United States citizen, willing to work any of three shifts, and ...

Casual observers of Venezuelan politics might have assumed that the U.S. capture and removal of former Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro in January would guarantee the dismantling of his ...