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Over-Feminization of Journalism and Modern Woke Reporting dlvr.it/TVfcTQ

Over-Feminization of Journalism and Modern Woke Reporting

A recent survey of journalists in America helped expose a hidden truth of the feminization of journalism: Female reporters now make up over two thirds of journalists under 30 and half of those over 30

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Making the Greenland Agreement Work: Building Distributed Arctic Deterrence dlvr.it/TVfcCV

Making the Greenland Agreement Work: Building Distributed Arctic Deterrence

The new U.S.-Greenland-Kingdom of Denmark agreement offers an opportunity to strengthen Arctic deterrence through distributed capabilities, resilient networks, and coalition capability alignment. Exe

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The NDAA Should Protect Medtech Safety for Patients dlvr.it/TVdtqj

The NDAA Should Protect Medtech Safety for Patients

The National Defense Authorization Act needs to protect those who serve, including by ensuring the military can deliver safe, reliable care when lives are on the line. That is why language i

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Companies Are Forbidden to Stop Drones dlvr.it/TVdtVW

Companies Are Forbidden to Stop Drones

On the morning of October 12, 2000, a small boat masquerading as a garbage barge in the harbor at Aden, Yemen, came alongside the USS Cole, the destroyer I commanded. In a split second, two al Qaeda s

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The Hidden Workforce Risk in America’s Nuclear Modernization dlvr.it/TVdss3

The Hidden Workforce Risk in America’s Nuclear Modernization

The United States is undertaking its most extensive nuclear modernization effort since the Cold War. Weapons are being modernized while aging production facilities are replaced or expanded. The Depart

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Continuous Transformation Needs a Clear End State dlvr.it/TVdrrb

Continuous Transformation Needs a Clear End State

The Army’s Transformation Initiative, or ATI, applies an enduring approach through specific reorganizations, program cuts, equipment deliveries, and personnel moves. ATI assigns deadlines to sev

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Why America Must Arm the Iranian Resistance dlvr.it/TVctjb

Why America Must Arm the Iranian Resistance

The United States has embarked on an unprecedented campaign of maritime and financial isolation against the Islamic Republic of Iran. Following the escalation of hostilities in early 2026, Washington

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What Franklin Roosevelt Understood About Military Leadership dlvr.it/TVctJb

What Franklin Roosevelt Understood About Military Leadership

The United States is at war, and the Army is losing its senior leadership.  Army Secretary Dan Driscoll resigned last month after months of reported conflict with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

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The Race to Build Ukraine's Western Air Force dlvr.it/TVct40

The Race to Build Ukraine's Western Air Force

The ongoing evolution of Ukraine's defense capabilities represents one of the most complex military transitions in modern history. Moving away from a legacy fleet of Soviet-era aircraft toward an inte

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Space Academy is Critical Step in the Future of Warfare dlvr.it/TVcs28

Space Academy is Critical Step in the Future of Warfare

When the astronauts aboard Artemis II became the first mission to fly by the Moon in 50 years, they became instant heroes. President Trump rightly honored them over the weekend for their achievement.

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Israel Should Quietly Help the Red Sea Coalition To End the Houthi Strategic Threat dlvr.it/TVcF2N

Israel Should Quietly Help the Red Sea Coalition To End the Houthi Strategic Threat

The Houthi seizure of Perim Island at the mouth of the Bab el-Mandeb should end any illusion that the threat from Yemen can be managed indefinitely through interception and episodic retaliation. After

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What Happens After Deterrence Over Taiwan Fails? dlvr.it/TVcDrs

What Happens After Deterrence Over Taiwan Fails?

Hong-Yu Harper Chen is right to warn against turning Taiwan’s military preparedness into an ever-moving test of whether the island deserves American support. Washington has good reasons to press

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Infinite Friction: Why the Nuclear Analogy Is Wrong for AI dlvr.it/TVcDM7

Infinite Friction: Why the Nuclear Analogy Is Wrong for AI

The conventional wisdom is well-established: the race between the United States and China to build powerful artificial intelligence is most akin to the arms race of the atomic age.  Sam Altman of

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Little Bang Theory: Advanced Propulsion Shows Promise dlvr.it/TVcDBf

Little Bang Theory: Advanced Propulsion Shows Promise

Wars have a habit of turning obscure industrial bottlenecks into massive strategic problems. In Ukraine, the constraint was artillery shells; more recent conflicts have exposed production shortfalls i

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Not Only Robots: Warfare Will Still Need Humans dlvr.it/TVbMxk

Not Only Robots: Warfare Will Still Need Humans

Future warfare won’t be entirely robotic. Yes, people will gradually disappear from battlefield environments where speed, endurance, distance, precision or physical danger overwhelmingly favour

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Corruptio Optimi Pessima (Corruption of the Best is the Worst) dlvr.it/TVbMrY

Corruptio Optimi Pessima (Corruption of the Best is the Worst)

Has the intellectual culture within the Marine Corps deteriorated to the point that it needs to institute a prize for intellectual courage?  A recent Wall Street Journal article by Roland Fryer a

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Refrigerators: The Next Battle Frontier? dlvr.it/TVbMlF

Refrigerators: The Next Battle Frontier?

Refrigerators are probably the last thing anyone would consider a national security vulnerability, which is precisely why the unusual refrigeration failures at U.S. military commissaries deserve more

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America’s Next Military Advantage is Trusted Data dlvr.it/TVbMfF

America’s Next Military Advantage is Trusted Data

The U.K. and Ukraine recently announced a new defense AI partnership that will give British researchers access to millions of images collected from the Ukrainian battlefield. The agreement is an examp

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The Israeli Card dlvr.it/TVbMXl

The Israeli Card

In 1972, Chairman Mao Zedong hosted President Richard Nixon in Beijing to establish diplomatic relations. The visit ended China's isolation, ended the Sino-Soviet alliance, and freed America to focus

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The Human Cost of Outdated GPS dlvr.it/TVZc95

The Human Cost of Outdated GPS

Nearly every night during my 2010 deployment to Afghanistan, we gathered on the flight line for a fallen soldier ceremony. We stood together to honor American and NATO service members who had given th

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