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
The Pentagon is facing a striking dual pressure: an increasingly political battle over who speaks for the US military, and growing concern among senior commanders about the resources being consumed by the
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For Adam Lee Heimerman, an alleged vandal, the reaction to his arrest has been extraordinary. After the 37-year-old congressional candidate from Lenoir City, Tennessee, was arrested at the end of July, internet
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A fleet of Chinese J-16 fighters has arrived in Egypt for the Eagles of Civilisation 2026 exercise, marking the aircraft’s first-ever deployment to Africa and providing a significant test of the People’s
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The death of Ecuador’s intelligence chief in a helicopter crash in Kenya has raised questions about the circumstances surrounding his final journey, particularly because Michele Sensi-Contugi was travelling with five American citizens
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Assessing Balochistan almost entirely through security incidents tends to warp the real picture. It can make it feel like one of Pakistan’s most important provinces is only about danger and reaction, when
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Large language models are increasingly capable of rapidly mining data and analysing weapons performance, tasks that previously required substantial time and effort from human analysts. But engineers involved in the development of
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The contested islands of the South China Sea could one day become autonomous defensive strongholds, protected not primarily by soldiers but by coordinated fleets of machines operating across the air, sea and
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On August 13, 2026, a protest near Ambala Cantonment, Haryana, over an assault on International Anti-Khalistani Terrorist Front (IAKTF) leader Gursimran Singh Mand on August 7, turned violent, leaving nine police personnel,
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Iran’s military has announced a $30,000 reward for any Iranian citizen who kills or captures a US serviceman, with the payment doubled if the action is carried out by a woman, according
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Luna al-Shibl rose from television presenter to one of Bashar al-Assad’s most powerful advisers, but her sudden death in 2024 exposed the dangers of proximity to a regime whose inner workings she
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