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A New York Times report describes a major crisis inside China’s military leadership under Xi Jinping. At a recent legislative meeting, the absence of many top generals made visible the scale of the pu
A US Army special forces master sergeant, Gannon Ken Van Dyke, was arrested and charged after allegedly using classified information to profit from betting on the covert capture of Venezuelan Presiden
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The article argues that messaging is a major strategic weakness for the United States, especially in war and foreign policy. It opens with a story from Iraq in 2007, when U.S. psychological operations
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The article argues that America is beginning to recognize the risks of concentrating control over artificial intelligence in the hands of a few powerful tech leaders. It opens by questioning whether “
USA TODAY reports that the Pentagon is quietly increasing planning for a possible U.S. military operation in Cuba, should President Donald Trump order one. The report cites two unnamed sources familia
A recent WIRED investigation has unveiled a series of cybersecurity incidents, beginning with the unauthorized release of the source code for Anthropic's Claude Code, which hackers have exploited by e
A federal judge in San Francisco, Rita Lin, granted Anthropic a preliminary injunction against the Trump administration, allowing the AI startup to challenge its recent blacklisting by the Defense Dep
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Andy Baker, born May 22, 1980, in Sonoma, California, is the current Deputy National Security Advisor of the United States, having assumed office on May 23, 2025. He graduated from the University of C
The Myth of the AI Race
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The Trump administration's AI action plan, "Winning the AI Race," frames AI competition as a zero-sum game between the U.S. and China, but this perspective is misleading. The AI landscape is fragmenti
The Trump administration is contemplating a land exchange involving 775 acres of the Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge with SpaceX, as reported by The New York Times. This proposed deal