Tucked into a Sept. 10, 1998, intelligence report sent to President Bill Clinton’s White House was a warning that, more than a quarter-century later, reads with striking prescience. A CIA analyst wrote
Tucked into a Sept. 10, 1998, intelligence report sent to President Bill Clinton’s White House was a warning that, more than a quarter-century later, reads with striking prescience. A CIA analyst wrote
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Taiwan is betting that drones can transform both its military preparedness and its industrial future, but the country’s ambitious plans are colliding with an uncomfortable question: can Taipei build thousands of effective
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The Makkah Joint Defense Agreement has emerged at a moment when the security order across the Middle East and South Asia is becoming less predictable. Signed by Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Türkiye
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A striking contradiction is emerging in East Asia. As Japan expands its defence partnerships, strengthens its military capabilities and deepens cooperation with countries across the Indo-Pacific and beyond, China is increasingly portraying
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At the World Humanoid Robot Games in China last month, humanoid machines jumped, boxed and danced before cheering spectators. Some fleet-footed robots ran faster than Usain Bolt over 100 metres. Their increasingly
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Tweeting from his prison cell, Pakistan’s cricketing hero and former prime minister Imran Khan described the country’s de facto leader, Field Marshal Asim Munir, as a mentally unstable, cruel dictator driven by
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A concert, a demonstration or a football match may appear to be an ordinary gathering of people. But as artificial intelligence becomes increasingly embedded in facial-recognition systems, such events can also become
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by Nil Twenty-five years after the planes struck New York and Washington, the most unsettling argument in 25 Years After 9/11: The Future of the Global Jihadi Movement is not that al-Qaeda
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For more than two decades, Vladimir Putin has pursued political objectives through military escalation. The question now confronting Europe is not simply whether the Russian president intends to continue the war in
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Japan is preparing to take another major step in expanding its defence capabilities, with the Defense Ministry seeking a record ¥8.9 trillion ($56 billion) for fiscal 2027 — a figure that government
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