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Apes and Maps in Rome
Welcome to Mid-Afternoon Map, our exclusive members-only newsletter that provides a cartographic perspective on current events, geopolitics, and history from the Caucasus to the Carolinas. Subscribers can look forward to interesting takes…
The D Brief: A ‘3rd nuclear age’; Seoul’s self-coup fallout; Romania’s election nullified over…
Top British military official: “We are at the dawn of a third nuclear age…defined by multiple and concurrent dilemmas, proliferating nuclear and disruptive technologies and the almost total absence of the security architectures that went…
As sims at sea help one carrier’s aviators stay sharp, the Navy wants more
Aviators aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln have been using simulators to practice as a group at sea—and the Navy’s air boss wants to replicate that across the strike group and beyond. “I send about 24 young warfighters down to the…
The War of Words Between FDR and Charles Lindbergh
Marshall Kosloff talks with Paul Sparrow about his book, “Awakening the Spirit of America: FDR’s War of Words with Charles Lindbergh and the Battle to Save Democracy.” Image: National Museum of the U.S. Navy Podcasts, Horns of a Dilemma War…
Beyond Human-in-the-Loop: Managing AI Risks in Nuclear Command-and-Control
On Nov. 16, U.S. and Chinese leaders met on the margins of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Lima, Peru, jointly affirming “the need to maintain human control over the decision to use nuclear weapons.” This declaration echoes…
Air Force boots decision on 6th-gen fighter to Trump admin
The Air Force is punting a decision on the direction of its 6th-generation stealth fighter jet to the Trump administration, and asking industry to update their proposals in light of the delay.“The Secretary of the Air Force will defer the…
How a director of national intelligence helps a president stay on top of threats from around the …
In all the arguments over whether President-elect Donald Trump’s choice for director of national intelligence is fit for the job, it’s easy to lose sight of why it matters. It matters a lot. To speak of telling…
Rewind and Reconnoiter: Underestimating the Enemy
In 2021, Caesar Nafrada and Joseph Caddell wrote “‘Never Thought They Could Pull Off Such an Attack’: Prejudice and Pearl Harbor,” where they argued that Pearl Harbor proves just how dangerous ethnocentric bias brought on by largely…
The D Brief: Rebels take another Syrian city; China’s big hack; Next DepSecDef?; NatSec poll…
Syrian troops retreat from HamaNew: Just a week after taking Aleppo, jihadists and rebels seized another major city in Syria on Thursday. Government troops confirmed their departure from the west-central city of Hama on Thursday after…
Inside the Military’s LGBTQ Witch Hunts Trump’s Return to the White House is Resurfacing Questions…
On weekends, Staff Sgt. Todd VanCantfort, an armed forces police officer in San Antonio, Texas, targeted gay bars in search of anyone in the military. One time, at the direction of his supervisor, he ditched his light blue and navy uniform…
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