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How China Could Counter U.S. Intervention in War Over Taiwan
Has Beijing found a new “assassin’s mace” to keep the U.S. military out of a fight over Taiwan?
Ongoing debates over how China’s military would counter U.S. intervention often focus on precision strikes against U.S. forces in the Western…
‘Remembrance Is a Shared Experience.’ Finding the Strength to Write Through Loss Gold Star Child…
Editor’s Note: Written by a 2023 Gold Star writing seminar graduate in support of our Memorial Day fundraising campaign.For nine years, I lived at the will of grief—scared to speak my pain too loudly, unsure of where I belonged without my…
Of Fists and Fathers: A Remembrance
Maj. Jim Mauldin, a U.S. Army special forces officer of mammoth size and prodigious strength, stood in my office doorway, blocking all light. He wanted something from me, his battalion commander. Jim spoke in a southern Virginia drawl with…
The D Brief: USFK to shrink?; House passes spending bill; Big AI in a laptop?; Russia’s big…
The Trump administration is considering shifting 4,500 troops from South Korea to other locations across the Pacific, including Guam, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. Context: The Trump team is looking to reduce U.S. troop…
Bill aims to lock in DIU’s dual-use reservist corps
Two veterans now serving in Congress took a step Friday to institutionalize one of the Defense Department’s most effective—but lesser-known—bridges between Silicon Valley and the Pentagon: the Joint Reserve Detachment of the Defense…
The Risks of Memorial Day Not Being Personal
Editor’s note: This article was originally published in 2021
In 2007, I spent Memorial Day in Fallujah. Although I was on my fifth tour in Iraq, it was the first deployment when I buried friends. I attended more than three…
An 18th-century war power resurfaces in cyber policy talks
Might a centuries-old war power be the key to U.S. cyber retaliation?In recent closed-door discussions, Trump administration and industry officials have discussed whether modern-day letters of marque—once used to…
For DOD, the future of large language models is smaller
The U.S. military is working on ways to get the power of cloud-based, big-data AI in tools that can run on local computers, draw upon more focused data sets, and remain safe from spying eyes, officials from OpenAI, Scale AI, and U.S.…
Muddy wheels, foggy lenses: 25th ID tests new vehicles, drones during Philippines exercises
HONOLULU–When Army officials picked the 25th Infantry Division for the Transformation-in-Contact program, they knew water would shape its performance on the kind of island terrain that might be a future battlefield.Firstly, because it’s…
The Edge of the Map
Editor’s Note: Nick Danforth’s journey as author of this column is drawing to a close. Keep an eye out for his forthcoming book, tentatively titled Fifty Maps That Don’t Explain the World! Meanwhile, we will continue our cartographic…
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