AI Made the List—but Humans Still Did the Killing
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The review examines *NAZA*, an Israeli documentary featuring 24 anonymous Israel Defense Forces soldiers who describe their involvement in Israel’s AI-assisted military campaign in Gaza. The film focu
Reuters provides a rare look aboard the USS George Washington, a U.S. aircraft carrier deployed near the Strait of Hormuz amid an ongoing war with Iran. The carrier, sent from Japan in late August to
Cyber warfare’s operational model creates distinctive human costs: operators can conduct missions against adversaries worldwide, return home the same day, and be recalled hours later without any physi
The US Department of Defence has stopped using Anthropic’s artificial intelligence tools after designating the company a national-security supply-chain risk, a Pentagon official told the BBC. Defence
The article argues that cyber warfare’s defining feature—conducting sustained operations from home—has become a serious personnel and readiness problem. Unlike conventional deployments, cyber operator
The United States has withdrawn all of its bombers—believed to be around a dozen B-1 Lancers—from RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire following a counter-terrorism investigation and reports of a new threa
Ashton Hamed Ellaboudy, 51, a Department of Energy employee from Richland, Washington, was arrested and charged with attempting to provide material support to the Houthis, a U.S.-designated foreign te
A new report by Barak Seener of the Henry Jackson Society argues that the Pentagon’s acquisition overhaul should draw lessons from recent conflicts in Israel and Ukraine. Israel demonstrates the impor
U.S. forces are scheduled to leave their remaining bases in Iraq by Wednesday, completing a withdrawal agreed to in 2024. The departure is being celebrated by Iran and its allied Iraqi militias as a m
The U.S. Navy has selected Boeing to develop its F/A-XX next-generation carrier-based fighter, ending a contentious competition against Northrop Grumman. Lockheed Martin was reportedly eliminated in a
A hacking group known as ShinyHunters claims to have breached an FBIJobs.gov portal and stolen between two and three terabytes of employee data. The FBI confirmed awareness of the group’s claim and sa
The U.S. Army Reserve is assessing whether it can provide U.S. Southern Command with several support formations within 90 to 120 days, according to an internal message reviewed by CBS News. Although t
Chris Rogers announces his forthcoming article, “Built for Lethality, Not for Law: Rebalancing Military Artificial Intelligence Toward Civilian Protection and Factual Integrity under International Hum
Trump’s Risky Hack-Back Plan
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2w ago
Foreign Policy’s Situation Report highlights three major issues: the Trump administration’s shift toward offensive cyberoperations, growing anxiety over artificial intelligence, and the lack of progre
U.S. Coast Guard and FBI cybersecurity teams boarded two U.S.-bound oil tankers in the Gulf of Mexico between August 21 and 24 after indications that both vessels’ networks had been compromised. The a
The post by Patrick Galey alleges that a Bloomberg News investigation found the US military used Palantir’s Maven Smart System, incorporating Anthropic’s Claude, during a February attack on a school i
A UN fact-finding mission has concluded that there are reasonable grounds to believe the United States committed war crimes in Iran during military strikes on 28 February. The investigation focused on
Russia is rapidly promoting Max, a messaging and payments “super-app” developed by VKontakte, a social-media company closely tied to the state. Authorities present Max as a patriotic alternative to Te
The article argues that China’s approach to AI safety is defined by acceleration and comprehensive state control rather than restraint. Chen Yixin, head of China’s Ministry of State Security (MSS) and
Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Ken Wilsbach announced plans to strengthen the defense of U.S. air bases, arguing that the service can no longer assume it will operate from secure “sanctuaries.” Speakin
Witnesses before the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission warned that human approval may not provide meaningful control over AI-assisted military decisions. As AI increasingly supports target identifica
Anthropic released a 154-page report detailing how its Claude AI models were misused over the past eight months by adversaries and other malicious actors across several countries, including Iran, Yeme
Iran-backed Houthi rebels rapidly expanded their control over Yemen’s Red Sea coast, capturing the island of Perim in the Bab el Mandeb Strait after seizing the port city of Mocha and advancing on Dhu
Anthropic says Kremlin-backed actors used its Claude AI system to support a range of harmful activities, including building autonomous drone capabilities, improving cyberattacks, and running disinform
Pentagon looks to AI to identify space and missile threats
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3w ago
The Pentagon is seeking artificial intelligence tools to improve missile and space threat detection in wartime, where human operators must process fast-moving targets, short timelines, and often ambig
U.S. President Donald Trump called on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to stop striking Russia’s diesel fuel infrastructure, arguing that the attacks are worsening a global diesel shortage. Spea
WARCLAUDE — Next-Gen AI for Kinetic Dominance
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3w ago
This text is a satirical, highly exaggerated mock announcement portraying Anthropic as having repurposed Claude into a military AI system called “WARCLAUDE.” It claims the company’s safety-focused pri
Hidden in Plain Sight
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3w ago
The piece argues that a dramatic April 3, 2026 rescue of an F-15E weapons systems officer shot down over southwestern Iran exposed a major weakness in current survival communications. The officer surv
A senior Defense Innovation Unit leader urged the Navy to move far faster toward unmanned vessels and reduce reliance on manned platforms. Matthew Shortal, DIU’s principal deputy director and chief co
The article argues that Google Earth’s brief AI image-generation experiment damaged trust in a tool long relied on for conflict verification. Launched on July 30, the feature let users enter real coor
The Pentagon’s top AI official, Cameron Stanley, said the US is helping allies such as Nato and Five Eyes partners adopt artificial intelligence, but believes they lack the resources, experience, and
Autonomy, Decision Making, and Loss of Control
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IrregularChat: AI & Autonomy
3w ago
The article argues that the reported Iranian capture of an Anduril Dive-LD unmanned underwater vehicle highlights major gaps in how the U.S. thinks about autonomy in military systems. Although the Div
The U.S. Air Force is seeking a new portable, medium-caliber air-defense gun designed to counter drones and subsonic cruise missiles after Iranian attacks exposed gaps in U.S. base defense in the Midd
The U.S. Air Force is exploring a new ground-based, medium-caliber anti-aircraft gun system to defend air bases worldwide against drones and subsonic cruise missiles. A recent Request for Information
Pentagon investigators administered polygraph tests in August to dozens of military officers and civilian employees as part of a leak probe into reports about dwindling U.S. weapons stockpiles. The te
Pentagon investigators administered polygraph tests to dozens of military officers and civilian employees in August as part of a leak probe tied to reports that U.S. weapons stockpiles, especially key
The U.S. military has disabled mobile advertising tracking tools on government-issued phones, computers, and other devices after concerns that commercially available location data was being used by Ir
A new survey of 111 national security and AI experts suggests deep concern inside U.S. security circles about the risks of advanced artificial intelligence. Conducted by the Institute for Security and
The Defense Department is expected to release a new cyber strategy early next week, marking its first broad cyber framework since 2023. Developed by Katie Sutton’s office, the strategy is intended to
The Defense Department is expected to release a new cyber strategy early next week, marking its first major cyber framework since 2023. Developed under Assistant Secretary of Defense for Cyber Policy
Pentagon launches Musk’s Grok for military use
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Sep 1
The Pentagon has launched Grok, Elon Musk’s chatbot, for military use through Starshield AI’s “Grok for Government,” more than a year after signing a contract with the company. The initiative expands
Security for military and critical infrastructure is becoming far more complex as threats expand beyond traditional “gates, guards and guns.” The article explains that drones, AI-enabled cyberattacks,
Twenty-Five Years Later, We Still Ask Too Much of the Military
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IrregularChat: Modern Warfare
Aug 31
The essay argues that, 25 years after 9/11, the United States still asks too much of its military. The author recalls being a teenager when the attacks happened and describes the fear and anger that f
A recent Pentagon assessment warned Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth that continuing the current level of U.S. military operations against Iran could weaken America’s ability to respond to other threats
A cyber attack reportedly linked to Iranian regime-affiliated hackers shut down a small power plant in the UK last month, according to The Telegraph. The plant was taken offline for four days, though
The article argues that the biggest danger of AI in the U.S. military is not a “Terminator”-style robot uprising, but the gradual erosion of human judgment. While AI could improve efficiency, reduce e
A new US-Saudi joint venture is building a drone factory near Riyadh to produce combat drones modeled on Iran’s Shahed system. The venture, SR2Vector, combines Utah-based Vector Defense with Saudi sta
The author describes how they discovered and exploited an abandoned part of the ENUM system, specifically the DNS zones under e164.arpa that map phone numbers to internet routing information. ENUM was