The military modernization and technological ambitions of the People’s Republic of China dominate headlines in Washington.

On the night of Aug. 9, 1942, an Allied fleet of 17 warships guarded the approaches to Guadalcanal. The fleet was newer, ...

The term “affordable mass” entered public defense discourse in 2021 as a munitions concept, which the Air Force adopted in ...

Recent experiments placing large language models in simulated nuclear crises have produced alarming headlines. “Bloodthirsty” ...

Closing small boat stations has proven difficult. Leaving them unchanged is operationally inefficient. These units are ...

The U.S. military is firing million-dollar missiles at Iranian drones that cost a tiny fraction as much — a striking example ...

China controls 99 percent of the world’s primary gallium, a critical mineral and semiconductor crucial for building the ...

Think of a violin made by a master craftsman: beautiful, precise, capable of extraordinary performance, but impossible to ...

In Sept. 2025, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia signed a mutual defense pact, formalizing what decades of quiet cooperation had ...

The reality that regime change is not going to happen as a result of this war seems to have settled in at the White House.

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A few hours before Anthropic announced the launch of its newest model, Claude Mythos Preview, on April 7, I had just ...