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A recent Defense & Aerospace Report Land Warfare podcast, in which Vago Muradian sat down with…
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Every discussion of a People’s Liberation Army (PLA) assault on Taiwan eventually arrives at the beach,…
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In March 2026, Iranian drones struck Amazon-owned data centers in the United Arab Emirates and a…
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For the past several years, Western policymakers have comforted themselves with a story: that economic interdependence…
Read More »AI Is a National Security Problem And So Is the Trust It Runs On
Most alarms about artificial intelligence and national security come from think tanks, academics, or opinion writers…
Read More »Wolves Without a Navy: How Ukraine’s USV Wolfpacks Are Strangling Russia’s Crimean Lifeline
On the night of July 6 into the early hours of July 7, 2026, Ukrainian drone…
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The Navy’s training establishment is often treated as background noise to the “real” story of naval…
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