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		<title>The Davis Wing, the B-24 Liberator, and the Self-Made Bet That Paid Off</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 08:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>The most produced American military aircraft of World War II was not a small fighter, a trainer, or a simple utility airplane &#8212; it was a complex four-engine heavy bomber called the B-24 Liberator. Over the course of five years, American industry produced a staggering 18,482 of these bombers, and they served in every theater of the war.The B-24 was a workhorse with strategic impact, but it would not have had its utility &#8212; or possibly even existed &#8212; were it not for its wing.Of course, all airplanes need a wing to fly. But the B-24 Liberator&#8217;s wing was special:</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://warontherocks.com/cogs-of-war/the-davis-wing-the-b-24-liberator-and-the-self-made-bet-that-paid-off/">The Davis Wing, the B-24 Liberator, and the Self-Made Bet That Paid Off</a> appeared first on <a href="https://warontherocks.com">War on the Rocks</a>.</p>
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		<title>Somali Pirates Are Back — But the Coalition That Beat Them Isn’t Coming</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Benoit Lefevre]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 07:30:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Numerous recent pirate attacks, especially the hijacking of three merchant vessels off the Horn of Africa, are a stark reminder that the conditions for resurgence can return quickly.It took years of sustained, coordinated effort by multinational naval coalitions, the shipping industry, and international organizations to get rid of pirates in the Western Indian Ocean and the Gulf of Aden. Since 2016, many observers have viewed Somali piracy as yesterday&#8217;s problem. Shipping companies increasingly treated the threat as manageable, and Western navies no longer prioritized it. However, piracy did not disappear, it simply went dormant. Somali piracy is now re-emerging amid</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://warontherocks.com/somali-pirates-are-back-but-the-coalition-that-beat-them-isnt-coming/">Somali Pirates Are Back — But the Coalition That Beat Them Isn’t Coming</a> appeared first on <a href="https://warontherocks.com">War on the Rocks</a>.</p>
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		<title>Gathering Clouds: Building Digital Strategic Depth in the Compute Age</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Blake Herzinger]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 08:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>The wars in Ukraine and the Middle East have exposed a strategic reality that military planners are only beginning to confront: In a data-centric age, digital infrastructure has become part of the battlespace. Data centers and cloud regions are now the digital backbone of military power and economic prosperity. As such, they present attractive targets for rapidly proliferating long-range strike systems, drones, and cyber capabilities. As the protective value of physical distance erodes, strategic depth &#8212; once conceived in geographical terms &#8212; must now be measured in the resilience of data and compute.Alex Rough detailed the physical vulnerability of data</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://warontherocks.com/cogs-of-war/gathering-clouds-building-digital-strategic-depth-in-the-compute-age/">Gathering Clouds: Building Digital Strategic Depth in the Compute Age</a> appeared first on <a href="https://warontherocks.com">War on the Rocks</a>.</p>
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		<title>Sinews of War at Sea: The Armed Services Need a Common Watercraft Family</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter Mitchell]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 07:30:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>To sustain future maritime operations, the U.S military will need to run supplies through an environment that spans thousands of miles of open ocean, denied ports, contested straits, and archipelagic chokepoints against adversaries that have spent decades studying how to target American logistics. That problem does not require one identical vessel for every mission. It does require a more common family of watercraft for the manned ships that carry cargo and vehicles inside a theater, built for scale, interoperability, and wartime replacement. Getting this right is arguably the most important acquisition problem the joint force faces in the next decade.So</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://warontherocks.com/sinews-of-war-at-sea-the-armed-services-need-a-common-watercraft-family/">Sinews of War at Sea: The Armed Services Need a Common Watercraft Family</a> appeared first on <a href="https://warontherocks.com">War on the Rocks</a>.</p>
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		<title>Ukrainian Writers Take Aim at Government Narratives</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 16:35:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Welcome to&#160;The Ukraine Compass, a weekly digest of Ukrainian commentary and analysis from across the political spectrum only for&#160;War on the Rocks&#160;members. Each Monday, we bring you a curated selection of articles from Ukrainian media offering insight into how Ukrainians themselves debate the issues shaping their country.American coverage often narrows the view to the battlefield &#8212; these pieces widen it, revealing the texture of daily life, politics, and public argument in a nation at war. The perspectives gathered here are varied, candid, and often surprising, together forming a more complete picture of Ukraine as it really is.Frontline and Strategy&#1045;&#1089;&#1087;&#1088;&#1077;&#1089;&#1086; &#8212;</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://warontherocks.com/ukrainian-writers-take-aim-at-government-narratives/">Ukrainian Writers Take Aim at Government Narratives</a> appeared first on <a href="https://warontherocks.com">War on the Rocks</a>.</p>
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		<title>A Catholic Security Scholar’s Case for Responsible Military AI</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 07:30:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>What do you do when two identities that make up your deepest self find themselves on opposite sides of a moral and spiritual battlefield?I am Catholic. I have been one for over 20 years since I made the life-altering decision to join a friend for Mass one day. My faith became a spiritual and ethical foundation at a time I sorely needed it, so much so that for a time, I contemplated entering the priesthood, which replaced my previous career goal of entering the CIA. I eventually realized that teaching was my true calling and decided to pursue that path</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://warontherocks.com/a-catholic-security-scholars-case-for-responsible-military-ai/">A Catholic Security Scholar’s Case for Responsible Military AI</a> appeared first on <a href="https://warontherocks.com">War on the Rocks</a>.</p>
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		<title>Happy 250th Birthday, America!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2026 07:30:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Editor&#8217;s Note: Few rivalries in American history have been as consequential &#8212; or as personal &#8212; as the one between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. &#160;The two men could hardly have been more different. Adams, the stocky and combative Massachusetts lawyer, was blunt to a fault and quick to suspicion. Jefferson, the tall, elegant Virginia planter, was reserved and idealistic. The two held diverging political philosophies as well. Adams preferred a strong, central government while Jefferson favored states&#8217; rights and limited government. This rift eventually led to an epic falling out, culminating in the presidential election of 1800, as Jefferson</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://warontherocks.com/happy-250th-birthday-america/">Happy 250th Birthday, America!</a> appeared first on <a href="https://warontherocks.com">War on the Rocks</a>.</p>
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		<title>The Integrated Circuit and the Future of American AI Leadership</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Kreps]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 08:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Editor&#8217;s note: This is the first article in a limited series celebrating American defense technologies born from wartime and their effects on broader national security, politics, and society. This series will run for several weeks to commemorate America&#8217;s 250th anniversary, and winners will be selected by a reader vote undertaken through our newsletter later this summer. Prior installments can be found at the&#160;Arsenal of Innovation&#160;page.&#160;The history of the semiconductor is an origin story for modern computing but also reveals a recurring pattern in American innovation: government helps underwrite technological breakthroughs, and commercial markets transform them into general-purpose technologies. And yet,</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://warontherocks.com/cogs-of-war/the-integrated-circuit-and-the-future-of-ai-leadership/">The Integrated Circuit and the Future of American AI Leadership</a> appeared first on <a href="https://warontherocks.com">War on the Rocks</a>.</p>
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		<title>Misguided and Misunderstood: Trump’s Approach to U.S. Troops in Europe</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Benjamin H. Friedman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 07:30:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>For many observers, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth&#8217;s speech on the future of NATO, delivered in Brussels on June 18, 2026, constituted a perfect example of how the Trump administration is angrily abandoning the longstanding U.S. commitment to European security. The prevailing picture is that the administration is eager to shift the burden of Europe&#8217;s defense and is thus moving to withdraw U.S. forces from the continent, even though Europe is moving to do more militarily. Hegseth stated, &#8220;we&#8217;re doubling down on our effort to make NATO what it always was supposed to be, a balanced alliance with Europe in</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://warontherocks.com/misguided-and-misunderstood-trumps-approach-to-u-s-troops-in-europe/">Misguided and Misunderstood: Trump’s Approach to U.S. Troops in Europe</a> appeared first on <a href="https://warontherocks.com">War on the Rocks</a>.</p>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Moritz S. Graefrath]]></dc:creator>
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		<title>The Blind Spots in Chinese Military Studies</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lyle Morris]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 07:30:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>During a recent conference on the People&#8217;s Liberation Army, I heard the same question posed to attendees and paper writers: &#8220;How would China react to U.S. force posture change X, Y, or Z?&#8221; or &#8220;How would the Chinese military respond to U.S. strikes in certain locations?&#8221; Having participated in dozens of unclassified wargames at the RAND Corporation and elsewhere, I hear a similar refrain when playing the &#8220;red team.&#8221;This is a reasonable and legitimate question. Policymakers and war planners should understand likely Chinese responses in studying and preparing for possible contingencies between China and the United States.To make well-grounded assessments</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://warontherocks.com/the-blind-spots-in-chinese-military-studies/">The Blind Spots in Chinese Military Studies</a> appeared first on <a href="https://warontherocks.com">War on the Rocks</a>.</p>
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		<title>From Shin Bet to Mossad, Netanyahu Reshapes Israeli Intelligence</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ofek Riemer]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 17:30:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Editor&#8217;s Note: Rewind and Reconnoiter is one of our weekly members-only newsletters. To access the full archive of Rewind and Reconnoiter as well as our other members-only content, including podcasts, newsletters, and exclusive access to the War on the Rocks app, sign up using the link in the graphic below.In 2025, Ofek Riemer, Daniel Wajner, and Ehud Eiran wrote, &#8220;Populists vs. Spies in Israel and Beyond,&#8221; where they argued that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu&#8217;s relationship with Israel&#8217;s intelligence agencies could have grave consequences for Israel&#8217;s democracy. A year later, we asked them to revisit their arguments.Image:&#160;U.S. Department of State&#160;via Wikimedia</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://warontherocks.com/from-shin-bet-to-mossad-netanyahu-reshapes-israeli-intelligence/">From Shin Bet to Mossad, Netanyahu Reshapes Israeli Intelligence</a> appeared first on <a href="https://warontherocks.com">War on the Rocks</a>.</p>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ehud Eiran]]></dc:creator>
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		<title>How a Team of Marines Built the Corps&#8217; FPV Drone Training Program from a Cold Start</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Scott Cuomo]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 15:15:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Last fall, the U.S. Marine Corps had virtually no first-person view attack drones. That&#8217;s changed quickly. This episode is about how a team of marines at Weapons Training Battalion at Quantico went from a cold start to building a Marine Corps-wide first-person view drone training system. Ryan was pleased to welcome some great marines onto the show: Col. Scott Cuomo, CWO5 Steve Pearsoll, CWO3 (Gunner) Troy Hotaling, GySgt Jude Stewart, GySgt Justin Creasman, and Sgt Timothy Brockup.Since we recorded this episode, Cuomo has changed command and is off to his next assignment.This episode was brought to you by Onebrief. Learn</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://warontherocks.com/how-a-team-of-marines-built-the-corps-fpv-drone-training-program-from-a-cold-start/">How a Team of Marines Built the Corps&#8217; FPV Drone Training Program from a Cold Start</a> appeared first on <a href="https://warontherocks.com">War on the Rocks</a>.</p>
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		<title>Trojan Spirit, the Army’s Intelligence Backbone, Needs a Successor</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Davenport]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 08:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>In 1990, the idea that deployed commanders could access the latest intelligence from three-letter agencies in the middle of nowhere was radical. But the Army was starting to make this idea real through a program called Trojan Spirit, so they could address a major strategic barrier: There were too many systems and databases for intelligence collection and analysis, some centralized and some forward deployed, and little access to practical insights. During Operation Desert Storm, the early Trojan system transitioned out of development and into operational deployment. Trojan Spirit&#8217;s first introduction to warfighters during the Gulf War fundamentally changed the battlefield.</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://warontherocks.com/cogs-of-war/trojan-spirit-the-armys-intelligence-backbone-needs-a-successor/">Trojan Spirit, the Army’s Intelligence Backbone, Needs a Successor</a> appeared first on <a href="https://warontherocks.com">War on the Rocks</a>.</p>
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		<title>The Hizballah Predicament: Why An Integrated Approach Is Necessary</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Anthony Elghossain]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 07:30:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>What can leaders do about a transnational organization that is a militia, a political party, a social services network, and a smuggling operation at the same time &#8212; and one that has resisted various dialogues and survived repeated attacks?American, Lebanese, and other leaders should recognize Hizballah&#8217;s hybrid, transnational nature and grapple with the unique challenges the organization creates. Otherwise, they will fail to resolve the Hizballah predicament while creating conditions for ineffective agreements, new wars, and squandered opportunities in the Levant.Meeting openly for the first time in decades, Lebanese and Israeli representatives have negotiated on security and political tracks while</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://warontherocks.com/the-hizballah-predicament-why-an-integrated-approach-is-necessary/">The Hizballah Predicament: Why An Integrated Approach Is Necessary</a> appeared first on <a href="https://warontherocks.com">War on the Rocks</a>.</p>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Grace Wermenbol]]></dc:creator>
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		<title>The Three Nevers: To Invade Taiwan, China Would Have to Make Military History Thrice</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jay McVann]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 07:15:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>The amphibious invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944, remains the largest and most complex amphibious operation in history. On the first day alone, Allied forces landed eight divisions, including five amphibious assault and three airborne, totaling roughly 160,000 personnel. That force more than doubled within days.Normandy was unprecedented in scale but not in kind. A Taiwan invasion would present the reverse problem: Taiwan&#8217;s size is not the unprecedented part &#8212; the operational challenges are. Analysis of a potential Chinese invasion of Taiwan typically emphasizes the People&#8217;s Liberation Army&#8217;s rapid modernization and the possibility of strategic surprise. Far less attention</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://warontherocks.com/the-three-nevers-to-invade-taiwan-china-would-have-to-make-military-history-thrice/">The Three Nevers: To Invade Taiwan, China Would Have to Make Military History Thrice</a> appeared first on <a href="https://warontherocks.com">War on the Rocks</a>.</p>
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		<title>The Shifting Fortunes of the Kurds</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Gönül Tol]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 17:45:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>The Kurds&#8217; fortunes have ebbed and flowed in recent years, but the fall of the Assad regime in Syria in December 2024, the 2025 decision by the Kurdistan Workers&#8217; Party (PKK) to dissolve and engage in talks with the Turkish government, and the 2026 U.S.-Israeli war with Iran had enormous ripple effects on the lives of Kurds in the Middle East and Kurdish hopes for autonomy. We asked four experts to assess how recent regional events are presenting risks and opportunities for the Kurds in Turkey, Iraq, Syria, and Iran.Read more below.&#160;G&#246;n&#252;l TolSenior Fellow at the Middle East InstituteThe Iran</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://warontherocks.com/the-shifting-fortunes-of-the-kurds/">The Shifting Fortunes of the Kurds</a> appeared first on <a href="https://warontherocks.com">War on the Rocks</a>.</p>
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		<title>Mapping America&#8217;s Domestic Drone Supply Chain</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 08:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>The extent of China&#8217;s drone dominance &#8212; and how to decouple from it &#8212; has long been a source of debate and anxiety in Washington. Last month, the Wall Street Journal reignited controversy by publishing a visual analysis of military quadcopter components, exploring China&#8217;s advantages in parts manufacturing and cost. The director of the Defense Innovation Unit objected to the report, stating on X that &#8220;By leaving out the dozens of U.S. companies that have plunged into drone component manufacturing, this article disappoints.&#8221;Underlying this debate is disagreement about how to measure drone supply chain security. At the very top of</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://warontherocks.com/cogs-of-war/at-a-glance-american-quadcopter-component-manufacturing/">Mapping America&#8217;s Domestic Drone Supply Chain</a> appeared first on <a href="https://warontherocks.com">War on the Rocks</a>.</p>
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		<title>Lost in Translation: How A Premier Chinese Think Tank Views U.S.-Chinese Competition</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Zenel Garcia]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 07:30:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>On May 13, 2026, Air Force One landed in Beijing for President Donald Trump&#8217;s first state visit to China in nearly a decade. That same morning, the China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations published a report titled The Evolving World and the Right Way to China-US Coexistence. The summit dominated global media coverage for two days. The report received almost none.The Beijing summit produced familiar imagery: honor guards, a state banquet in the Great Hall of the People, and carefully choreographed warmth. Chinese leader Xi Jinping announced that both sides had agreed to &#8220;strategic stability&#8221; as a framework for the</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://warontherocks.com/lost-in-translation-how-a-premier-chinese-think-tank-views-u-s-chinese-competition/">Lost in Translation: How A Premier Chinese Think Tank Views U.S.-Chinese Competition</a> appeared first on <a href="https://warontherocks.com">War on the Rocks</a>.</p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 16:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Welcome to&#160;The Ukraine Compass, a weekly digest of Ukrainian commentary and analysis from across the political spectrum only for&#160;War on the Rocks&#160;members. Each Monday, we bring you a curated selection of articles from Ukrainian media offering insight into how Ukrainians themselves debate the issues shaping their country.American coverage often narrows the view to the battlefield &#8212; these pieces widen it, revealing the texture of daily life, politics, and public argument in a nation at war. The perspectives gathered here are varied, candid, and often surprising, together forming a more complete picture of Ukraine as it really is.Frontline and Strategy&#1054;&#1073;&#1086;&#1079;&#1088;&#1077;&#1074;&#1072;&#1090;&#1077;&#1083;&#1100; &#8212;</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://warontherocks.com/the-ukrainian-push-for-long-term-strategic-planning/">The Ukrainian Push for Long-Term Strategic Planning</a> appeared first on <a href="https://warontherocks.com">War on the Rocks</a>.</p>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Justin Massie]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 08:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>As the relationship between the United States and Canada continues to degrade, it now comes at the expense of each country&#8217;s industrial security.Last month, the Pentagon announced the unilateral suspension of the 86-year-old Canadian Permanent Joint Board on Defense in response to what the White House sees as Ottawa&#8217;s failure to present a credible plan to spend 3.5 percent of GDP on defense by 2035. And the opening of the gleaming new bridge between Detroit and Windsor has been long delayed in the tense run-up to the continental trade deal review.What many policymakers in Washington fail to realize is that</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://warontherocks.com/cogs-of-war/the-defense-industrial-alliance-washington-is-throwing-away/">The Defense Industrial Alliance Washington Is Throwing Away</a> appeared first on <a href="https://warontherocks.com">War on the Rocks</a>.</p>
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		<title>A New Force Posture Concept for Europeanizing Extended Nuclear Deterrence</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Christopher Ford]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 07:30:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>During the Cold War, Europe kept asking whether Washington would risk an American city to save a European one. It was an impolite question, but a useful one, which is why it never quite left the room. It has now packed its bags and moved east. Earlier this year, French President Emmanuel Macron created quite a stir with an important speech on French nuclear weapons policy. Under what he called a new path of dissuasion avanc&#233;e, or &#8220;forward deterrence,&#8221; he declared that just as French strategic submarines &#8220;dilute naturally in the oceans, guaranteeing a permanent-strike capability,&#8221; so also now will</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://warontherocks.com/a-new-force-posture-concept-for-europeanizing-extended-nuclear-deterrence/">A New Force Posture Concept for Europeanizing Extended Nuclear Deterrence</a> appeared first on <a href="https://warontherocks.com">War on the Rocks</a>.</p>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Frank Hoffman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 07:15:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Jack Watling, Statecraft: The New Rules of Power in a Divided World (Macmillan, 2026)The war against Iran exposed a multitude of forced errors and own goals in the conduct of statecraft. The purpose of sound statecraft is the integrated application of a state&#8217;s tools and its repertoire of governmental instruments of power to gain its desired outcomes in international relations. The yet-to-be-resolved contest against the Islamic Republic of Iran reveals a litany of shortfalls in the conduct of U.S. statecraft.It is unlikely that the present U.S. government will conduct a candid assessment of its shortcomings. Acknowledging the failure to achieve</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://warontherocks.com/the-art-of-statecraft-in-an-age-of-strategic-failure/">The Art of Statecraft in an Age of Strategic Failure</a> appeared first on <a href="https://warontherocks.com">War on the Rocks</a>.</p>
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		<title>Not Imaginary: The Deterrence Gap is Real and America Needs Low-Yield Nukes</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Amato]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 14:15:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Nuclear policy debates are at their best when they force hard questions about risk, deterrence, and military necessity. They are at their worst when disagreement is recast as bad faith. In 2018, as an outgrowth of a rigorous policy review process, the Trump administration&#8217;s Nuclear Posture Review identified a need for supplemental low-yield nuclear capabilities to augment the U.S. nuclear arsenal. This was presented as an effort to raise the nuclear threshold of adversaries who may believe they could employ nuclear weapons in limited ways to escalate their way out of failed or failing conventional conflict.To address this concern, the</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://warontherocks.com/not-imaginary-the-deterrence-gap-is-real-and-america-needs-low-yield-nukes/">Not Imaginary: The Deterrence Gap is Real and America Needs Low-Yield Nukes</a> appeared first on <a href="https://warontherocks.com">War on the Rocks</a>.</p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 07:30:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>To understand how close Myanmar&#8217;s pro-democracy resistance came to victory last year &#8212; and how far it has slipped since &#8212; there is no sharper microcosm than the story of a Gen Z sniper. In April 2025, a female teenager, Anina, enraptured the world, her youth-driven &#8220;Spring Revolution&#8221; a vivid foil to the sclerotic forces of military dictator Min Aung Hlaing (officially called the Tatmadaw). When her unit captured the town of Falam, fortune seemed on the resistance&#8217;s side. Yet, a year later, regime troops stormed Anina&#8217;s hometown, a stunning blow to the resistance.Many observers had predicted the junta&#8217;s impending</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://warontherocks.com/misreading-myanmars-war-why-the-juntas-recent-gains-dont-mean-imminent-victory/">Misreading Myanmar’s War: Why the Junta’s Recent Gains Don’t Mean Imminent Victory</a> appeared first on <a href="https://warontherocks.com">War on the Rocks</a>.</p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 07:15:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>You can tell a lot about a person from what fiction they keep on their nightstand. Once a year, we make the staff, contributing editors, and show hosts of War on the Rocks tell on themselves.Kerry AndersonThe Midnight Library, Matt Haig (2020). Drawing on evergreen themes from books and movies such as Sliding Doors or It&#8217;s a Wonderful Life, The Midnight Library puts a fresh spin on questions like what&#8217;s the meaning of life, how does our presence (or absence) in the world affect those around us, what would have happened if we had made different choices, and are there</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://warontherocks.com/the-2026-war-on-the-rocks-summer-fiction-reading-list/">The 2026 War on the Rocks Summer Fiction Reading List</a> appeared first on <a href="https://warontherocks.com">War on the Rocks</a>.</p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 19:45:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Welcome to The Adversarial.&#160;Every other week, we&#8217;ll provide you with expert analysis on America&#8217;s greatest challengers: China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, and jihadists. Read more below.***IranOn June 17, U.S. President Donald Trump and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian separately signed a memorandum of understanding. Mediated by Pakistan and Qatar, the agreement ends hostilities and provides early returns for both sides: Shipping through the Strait of Hormuz is ticking up, oil prices have been coming down, and Washington has issued a 60-day waiver on Iranian oil and petrochemical sales. But diverging claims on nearly every point the two sides spent weeks litigating</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://warontherocks.com/open-strait-unsettled-waters/">Open Strait, Unsettled Waters</a> appeared first on <a href="https://warontherocks.com">War on the Rocks</a>.</p>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ryan Musto]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 08:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>The Columbia-class ballistic missile submarine is the next generation of American nuclear deterrence. Twelve of these boats will replace the aging Ohio-class fleet, entering service over the 2030s and 2040s, each carrying 16 Trident IIs and driven by a ghost-quiet electric motor that renders them acoustically invisible to any adversary. What makes all of that possible &#8212; the propulsion, the stealth, the strike precision &#8212; depends almost entirely on rare earths refined in China. This is perhaps the Navy&#8217;s most consequential and least discussed vulnerability.The dependency runs through every layer of the capability stack. The sub&#8217;s permanent magnet motor requires</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://warontherocks.com/cogs-of-war/the-u-s-navys-subsea-rare-earth-vulnerability/">The U.S. Navy’s Subsea Rare Earth Vulnerability</a> appeared first on <a href="https://warontherocks.com">War on the Rocks</a>.</p>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ryan Shaw]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 07:30:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>On June 25, 1876, Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer and an entire battalion of the 7th Cavalry Regiment rode to their deaths and into American legend on the ridges north of Montana&#8217;s Little Bighorn River. The battle was decided in a few hours. Its meaning remains contested 150 years later.Little Bighorn stands alongside Yorktown, Gettysburg, and D-Day in the pantheon of iconic American battles. But it is a curious addition there, in that it was a small engagement, fought by just a few hundred men on a compact piece of terrain. More curiously still, it was a loss. Not just</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://warontherocks.com/the-importance-of-the-battle-of-the-little-bighorn/">The Importance of the Battle of the Little Bighorn</a> appeared first on <a href="https://warontherocks.com">War on the Rocks</a>.</p>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Scharre]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 17:30:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>In 2024, Paul Scharre and Michael Depp wrote, &#8220;Artificial Intelligence and Nuclear Stability,&#8221; where they argued integrating artificial intelligence into the nuclear chain of command presents both opportunities and risks. Two years later, as AI becomes increasingly integrated into military systems and processes, we asked them to revisit their arguments. Image: Senior Airman Jason Wiese via Wikimedia CommonsIn 2024, you argued that integrating artificial intelligence into the nuclear chain of command presents both opportunities and risks. Where does that integration stand today? Is nuclear AI a priority for the Department of Defense, or does it currently take a back seat</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://warontherocks.com/nuclear-stability-in-the-age-of-ai/">Nuclear Stability in the Age of AI</a> appeared first on <a href="https://warontherocks.com">War on the Rocks</a>.</p>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Maxwell Maduka]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 08:30:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>This exclusive Cogs of War interview is with Maxwell Maduka, the co-founder and chief engineer of Terra Industries, an African defense technology company building autonomous drone and counter-drone systems designed for the continent&#8217;s operating conditions. As cheap imported airframes flood African markets and non-state actors employ drones across the Sahel, we asked Max why Terra is betting on Africa building its own defense industrial base.Cheap Turkish and Chinese drones and sensor systems have proliferated across Africa for years. Where do those systems fall short, and what capabilities do you hope to add to the crowded unmanned market?Imported Turkish and Chinese</p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 08:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Armies run on more than what happens at the front. Behind every operation is a vast amount of coordination, administration, logistics, and judgment. Bill Pessin, senior vice president of national security at Salesforce and a former U.S. Army logistics officer, joins Jonathan to discuss how military organizations can use AI agents, what makes these tools different from ordinary software, and why safety and accountability matter when new technology enters national security work. They also discuss what Pessin learned early in his Army career about the gap between plans, systems, and the people who have to make them work. Image: Petty</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://warontherocks.com/cogs-of-war/ai-agents-and-the-unseen-work-of-war/">AI Agents and the Unseen Work of War</a> appeared first on <a href="https://warontherocks.com">War on the Rocks</a>.</p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 07:30:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Wars rarely end in a single act of diplomacy. More often, they pass through a succession of ceasefires, frameworks, understandings, as well as provisional and even secret arrangements before anyone can determine whether peace is actually at hand. The Trump administration&#8217;s memorandum with Iran is best understood in those terms. In both form and logic, it recalls an earlier American effort to negotiate an exit from an unpopular conflict: the Paris Peace Accords of 1973.The four primary parties to the Vietnam War (1965 to 1975) &#8212; the United States, South Vietnam, North Vietnam, and the Provisional Revolutionary Government of the</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://warontherocks.com/from-vietnam-to-iran-wartime-diplomacy-and-secret-deals/">From Vietnam to Iran: Wartime Diplomacy and Secret Deals</a> appeared first on <a href="https://warontherocks.com">War on the Rocks</a>.</p>
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		<title>Adapting to Uncertainty in the Strait of Hormuz</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kristian Coates Ulrichsen]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 17:30:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Iran&#8217;s threats to shipping through the Strait of Hormuz &#8212; in response to the U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran that began on Feb. 28 &#8212; effectively closed the strait, sending economic shockwaves around the world. As part of negotiations between Tehran and Washington, Iran has eased restrictions, and shipping traffic has picked up in recent days &#8212; albeit well below pre-war levels.Whatever the outcome of negotiations, Iran has clearly demonstrated its ability to shut down the strait. It could happen again. That reality significantly increases incentives for many countries to reduce their reliance on the strait. We asked five</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://warontherocks.com/adapting-to-uncertainty-in-the-strait-of-hormuz/">Adapting to Uncertainty in the Strait of Hormuz</a> appeared first on <a href="https://warontherocks.com">War on the Rocks</a>.</p>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Victoria Taylor]]></dc:creator>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Akhil Ramesh]]></dc:creator>
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		<title>A Claim to Lead, a Hesitation to Act: Germany’s New Military Strategy</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Roderich Kiesewetter]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 07:30:38 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>In the public perception, it seems like a big deal for Germany to publish a military strategy for the first time. But let me pour a little cold water on that. A form of military strategy has always existed. Where today we have a National Security Strategy paired with a military strategy and Plan for the Armed Forces, the past offered the White Paper, Defence Policy Guidelines, and the Bundeswehr concept, which spelled out the armed forces&#8217; structure in more concrete terms. Yet even the new military strategy, released in late April, reads more as analysis than as a clear</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://warontherocks.com/a-claim-to-lead-a-hesitation-to-act-germanys-new-military-strategy/">A Claim to Lead, a Hesitation to Act: Germany’s New Military Strategy</a> appeared first on <a href="https://warontherocks.com">War on the Rocks</a>.</p>
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		<title>Is There a Place in Ukrainian Media for War Skeptics?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[WOTR Staff]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 16:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Welcome to&#160;The Ukraine Compass, a weekly digest of Ukrainian commentary and analysis from across the political spectrum only for&#160;War on the Rocks&#160;members. Each Monday, we bring you a curated selection of articles from Ukrainian media offering insight into how Ukrainians themselves debate the issues shaping their country.American coverage often narrows the view to the battlefield &#8212; these pieces widen it, revealing the texture of daily life, politics, and public argument in a nation at war. The perspectives gathered here are varied, candid, and often surprising, together forming a more complete picture of Ukraine as it really is.Frontline and Strategy&#1062;&#1077;&#1085;&#1079;&#1086;&#1088;.&#1053;&#1045;&#1058; &#8212;</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://warontherocks.com/is-there-a-place-in-ukrainian-media-for-war-skeptics/">Is There a Place in Ukrainian Media for War Skeptics?</a> appeared first on <a href="https://warontherocks.com">War on the Rocks</a>.</p>
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		<title>Too Big To Break Again: India, Italy, and the Defense Partnership That Almost Wasn’t</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Chiara Boldrini]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 07:30:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>A single bribe nearly ruined a defense partnership most people didn&#8217;t know even existed. It took India and Italy almost a decade to recover.The story of how that rupture happened &#8212; and what it exposed about Italy&#8217;s quiet but deep role in India&#8217;s military &#8212; is essential to understanding why both countries now treat their renewed ties as something too valuable to lose again.When Indian authorities cancelled the AgustaWestland helicopter contract in 2014, the fallout went far beyond the headlines. Torpedo supplies to the Indian Navy&#8217;s Scorp&#232;ne-class submarines froze, upgrades to over 20 Sea King helicopters stalled, and a naval</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://warontherocks.com/too-big-to-break-again-india-italy-and-the-defense-partnership-that-almost-wasnt/">Too Big To Break Again: India, Italy, and the Defense Partnership That Almost Wasn’t</a> appeared first on <a href="https://warontherocks.com">War on the Rocks</a>.</p>
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		<title>Why India Will Stick with America</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rajeswari Pillai Rajagopalan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 07:30:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>The Trump administration has not been kind to India. Nevertheless, India has responded with far greater equanimity than most observers expected. Predictions that President Donald Trump&#8217;s behavior will hurt U.S.-Indian relations have not come to pass, with the leaders of the two countries remaining in frequent and friendly conversation. Instead of retaliating, India has responded calmly, though the Indian government faces considerable domestic criticism. Despite continuing irritation with American behavior, India can be expected to maintain its two-decade course of seeking good relations with the United States.The reason is a simple one that is ignored by critics and analysts: India</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://warontherocks.com/why-india-will-stick-with-america/">Why India Will Stick with America</a> appeared first on <a href="https://warontherocks.com">War on the Rocks</a>.</p>
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		<title>The World Cup: Players Vie for Goals and Countries for Influence</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Robert Kelley]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 17:30:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>The 2026 FIFA Men&#8217;s World Cup is now well underway, bringing 48 countries&#8217; teams to compete in a soccer tournament co-hosted by the United States, Mexico, and Canada. With teams from every continent except Antarctica, the 2026 tournament is a truly global event. The World Cup is often hailed as an opportunity for the world to come together and celebrate a shared passion for &#8220;the beautiful game&#8221; &#8212; creating an opportunity every four years for countries to gain attention, shape their reputation, and build influence.Although the joint U.S.-Mexican-Canadian bid intended to demonstrate North American connections, relations have deteriorated since the</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://warontherocks.com/the-world-cup-players-vie-for-goals-and-countries-for-influence/">The World Cup: Players Vie for Goals and Countries for Influence</a> appeared first on <a href="https://warontherocks.com">War on the Rocks</a>.</p>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[César Jiménez-Martínez]]></dc:creator>
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		<title>China&#8217;s Farm Drones: A Trojan Horse Washington Overlooks</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Emilian Kavalski]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 14:45:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>In 2024, Emilian Kavalski and Claris Diaz argued in &#8220;Beyond TikTok &#8211; The National Security Risks of Chinese Agricultural Drones&#8221; that the national debate over foreign social media platforms risked becoming too narrow, potentially causing Washington to overlook other foreign technologies embedded in critical systems. Two years later, we asked them to revisit their arguments.Image: MB-one via Wikimedia CommonsIn your 2024 article, you argued that TikTok&#8217;s data collection risks were overhyped and that fixating on them distracted the United States from more serious Chinese technology threats, like agricultural drones. Two years and several TikTok ban cycles later, has your view</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://warontherocks.com/chinas-farm-drones-a-trojan-horse-washington-overlooks/">China&#8217;s Farm Drones: A Trojan Horse Washington Overlooks</a> appeared first on <a href="https://warontherocks.com">War on the Rocks</a>.</p>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Panter]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 08:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>A mentor of mine, a superb scholar, once told me that good defense analysis starts with a trade-off. The classic example is combined arms doctrine, which is the foundation of modern warfare. Infantry, armor, artillery, and aviation work together to offset each other&#8217;s weaknesses. Each brings a combination of mobility, firepower, or protection, though none individually has all three. Infantry has a lot of mobility, but little protection. Tanks have mobility and a lot of protection, but limited magazines. Artillery in the rear has nearly limitless firepower, but no protection. Aviation brings speed, reach, and firepower, but little staying power,</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://warontherocks.com/cogs-of-war/cogs-of-war-turns-one/">Cogs of War Turns One</a> appeared first on <a href="https://warontherocks.com">War on the Rocks</a>.</p>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Quinn]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 07:30:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>War is a brutal driver of medical innovation. Russia&#8217;s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has forced clinicians and commanders alike to confront a hard truth: Survival depends not only on tactics and technology, but on the ability to deliver advanced care under fire, evacuate and resuscitate the wounded, and preserve fighting strength despite repeated attacks on healthcare systems.Ukraine&#8217;s experience has reshaped combat medicine through necessity, resilience, and improvisation. The central question is no longer whether NATO can observe these lessons, but whether it can build a system bold enough to capture, test, scale, and field them at wartime speed. The NATO</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://warontherocks.com/good-medicine-is-combat-power-clinical-innovation-and-the-lessons-of-the-russo-ukrainian-war/">Good Medicine Is Combat Power: Clinical Innovation and the Lessons of the Russo-Ukrainian War</a> appeared first on <a href="https://warontherocks.com">War on the Rocks</a>.</p>
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		<title>Macron’s Nuclear Gamble: Building a European Deterrent Faster Than French Politics Can Tear Down</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Amélie Jaques-Apke]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 07:30:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>In early March, French President Emmanuel Macron stood at a windswept submarine base on the Breton coast and quietly buried four decades of French nuclear orthodoxy. The arsenal would grow. The numbers would be hidden. And for the first time, nuclear weapons that France built to defend Paris might one day be deployed to protect Berlin.Three simultaneous shifts &#8212; an increase of nuclear warheads; an end to transparency over the size of the force de frappe; and the launch of &#8220;advanced deterrence,&#8221; a framework offering European partners strategic dialogues, invitations to French nuclear exercises, and the potential forward basing of</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://warontherocks.com/macrons-nuclear-gamble-building-a-european-deterrent-faster-than-french-politics-can-tear-down/">Macron’s Nuclear Gamble: Building a European Deterrent Faster Than French Politics Can Tear Down</a> appeared first on <a href="https://warontherocks.com">War on the Rocks</a>.</p>
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		<title>Three Short Tales on War Brad Carson Wants You to Read</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Brad Carson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 07:15:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Editor&#8217;s Note: This is a new occasional series brought to you by War on the Rocks. If you would like to pitch your own version, please refer to the contact information and guidance on our submissions page.Every war, it seems, produces its famous novel, a book that captures not merely the tactics and the terrain but the moral weather of its time. The American Civil War gave us The Red Badge of Courage. World War I gave us All Quiet on the Western Front. World War II offered more competitors, as if the scale of the catastrophe demanded more witnesses;</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://warontherocks.com/three-short-tales-on-war-brad-carson-wants-you-to-read/">Three Short Tales on War Brad Carson Wants You to Read</a> appeared first on <a href="https://warontherocks.com">War on the Rocks</a>.</p>
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		<title>The Fall of Fortress Singapore: Three Lessons from the Collapse of Britain’s Great Asian Bastion</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Iskander Rehman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 07:30:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Editor&#8217;s note: This is part of a running series of essays by Iskander Rehman, entitled &#8220;Applied History,&#8221; which seeks, through the study of the history of strategy and military operations, to better illuminate contemporary defense challenges.The fall of Singapore on February 15 stupefied the Prime Minister. How came 100,000 men &#8230; to hold up their hands to inferior numbers of Japanese? Though his mind had been gradually prepared for its fall, the surrender of the fortress stunned him. He felt it was a disgrace. It left a scar on his mind. One evening, months later, when he was sitting in</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://warontherocks.com/the-fall-of-fortress-singapore-three-lessons-from-the-collapse-of-britains-great-asian-bastion/">The Fall of Fortress Singapore: Three Lessons from the Collapse of Britain’s Great Asian Bastion</a> appeared first on <a href="https://warontherocks.com">War on the Rocks</a>.</p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 17:15:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Welcome to&#160;The Ukraine Compass, a weekly digest of Ukrainian commentary and analysis from across the political spectrum only for&#160;War on the Rocks&#160;members. Each Monday, we bring you a curated selection of articles from Ukrainian media offering insight into how Ukrainians themselves debate the issues shaping their country.American coverage often narrows the view to the battlefield &#8212; these pieces widen it, revealing the texture of daily life, politics, and public argument in a nation at war. The perspectives gathered here are varied, candid, and often surprising, together forming a more complete picture of Ukraine as it really is.Frontline and Strategy&#1054;&#1073;&#1086;&#1079;&#1088;&#1077;&#1074;&#1072;&#1090;&#1077;&#1083;&#1100; &#8212;</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://warontherocks.com/can-bankova-muster-political-will-to-make-institutional-reforms-during-war/">Can Bankova Muster Political Will to Make Institutional Reforms During War?</a> appeared first on <a href="https://warontherocks.com">War on the Rocks</a>.</p>
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		<title>How Japan Could Co-Produce the Navy’s Future Fleet</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeff Kucik]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 08:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>America&#8217;s defense industrial base cannot build the Navy out of the threat it faces. Decades of industry consolidation, persistent resource shortages, and inconsistent demand signals have delayed the production of critical vessels and munitions. With production bottlenecks stacking up, the Navy may have no choice but to let its allies do some of the building.Both the National Defense Strategy and Navy Warfighting Instructions highlight how mobilizing allies can field more forces to the mutual benefit of the United States and its strategic partners. Likewise, the latest U.S. Navy Shipbuilding Plan stresses the importance of allied investment and production.The Trump administration</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://warontherocks.com/cogs-of-war/how-japan-could-co-produce-the-navys-future-fleet/">How Japan Could Co-Produce the Navy’s Future Fleet</a> appeared first on <a href="https://warontherocks.com">War on the Rocks</a>.</p>
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		<title>South Korea Could Build Nuclear Submarines, But It Shouldn’t</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Wilson Grossman-Trawick]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 07:30:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>In late May 2026, South Korean Defense Minister Ahn Gyu-back unveiled a roadmap to achieving one of Seoul&#8217;s top military acquisition goals: nuclear-powered submarines. This roadmap is heading in the wrong direction.During last month&#8217;s inaugural meeting of the Future Defense Strategy Committee, South Korea published its Basic Plan for the Development of Nuclear-Powered Submarines. Chaired by President Lee Jae Myung, the committee was formed to help South Korea build robust, self-reliant defense capabilities. During the event, Lee&#8217;s opening remarks underscored the symbolic significance of the nuclear submarine capability and stressed the program&#8217;s role in &#8220;strengthening the Republic of Korea&#8217;s defense</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://warontherocks.com/south-korea-could-build-nuclear-submarines-but-it-shouldnt/">South Korea Could Build Nuclear Submarines, But It Shouldn’t</a> appeared first on <a href="https://warontherocks.com">War on the Rocks</a>.</p>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mohammed Alotaibi]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 07:30:38 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Missiles, drones, and maritime disruptions do not stop at national borders. Gulf defense architecture still too often waits for national permission to act. The Gulf Cooperation Council has spent decades building defense institutions, diplomatic forums, and a language of indivisible Gulf security. Recent crises in the Red Sea, the Strait of Hormuz, and the airspace above the Gulf have exposed a harder test: whether those institutions can move at crisis speed when a missile salvo, drone attack, or maritime disruption gives the region minutes or hours, not days, to respond.The Gulf has no shortage of capability. The region has advanced</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://warontherocks.com/the-gulf-arab-states-need-a-shield-built-for-limited-trust/">The Gulf Arab States Need a Shield Built for Limited Trust</a> appeared first on <a href="https://warontherocks.com">War on the Rocks</a>.</p>
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		<title>Strike, Counterstrike, Repeat</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 20:20:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Welcome to The Adversarial.&#160;Every other week, we&#8217;ll provide you with expert analysis on America&#8217;s greatest challengers: China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, and jihadists. Read more below.***Iran Hostilities have increased notably in the last few days, effectively ending the U.S.-Iranian truce that had somewhat held since April. At the start of June, fighting further intensified between Israel and Hizballah in Lebanon, complicating U.S.-Iranian negotiations, as Iran has insisted on linking U.S.-Iranian talks with an end to Israeli actions against Hizballah. The fighting in Lebanon led to Israel and Iran trading direct strikes on June 7. Then, on June 8, Iran reportedly</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://warontherocks.com/strike-counterstrike-repeat/">Strike, Counterstrike, Repeat</a> appeared first on <a href="https://warontherocks.com">War on the Rocks</a>.</p>
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		<title>The Evolution of Ukraine&#8217;s Asymmetrical Combat Tactics</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Scott Sweetow]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 16:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>In 2022, Scott Sweetow wrote, &#8220;Of Roadside Bombs and Drones: Putin&#8217;s Looming Insurgency Problem,&#8221; where he argued Ukraine&#8217;s fight against Russia would rely on a combination of conventional and asymmetrical insurgent tactics. Four years of combat later, we asked Scott to revisit his arguments.Image:&#160;National Information Warfare Center PacificIn your 2022 article, you argued that Ukraine&#8217;s tech-driven resistance could rapidly evolve into an insurgency-style force. Four years in, how have those assessments held up? Could one argue that Ukraine today operates more like an insurgency in some respects than a conventional state military?&#160;Classic insurgencies pit asymmetric or guerrilla forces against organized,</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://warontherocks.com/the-evolution-of-ukraines-asymmetrical-combat-tactics/">The Evolution of Ukraine&#8217;s Asymmetrical Combat Tactics</a> appeared first on <a href="https://warontherocks.com">War on the Rocks</a>.</p>
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		<title>Wargaming for Improved Acquisition: What Does It Take?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[C. Travis Reese]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 08:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>A few months ago, I attended a panel discussion for a wargame simulating rapid industrial mobilization for armed conflict. Conducted by a leading university, with teams composed of former senior defense officials, the game probed how government and industry collaboration would play out given minimal coordination before the onset of a crisis. On the panel, the defense leaders confessed how infrequently they engaged with industry in real life to plan for a national emergency. This declared lack of public-private planning for large-scale conflict matches what I&#8217;ve experienced as a defense planner and wargame developer: Outside of rhetorical claims at annual</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://warontherocks.com/cogs-of-war/wargaming-for-improved-acquisition-what-does-it-take/">Wargaming for Improved Acquisition: What Does It Take?</a> appeared first on <a href="https://warontherocks.com">War on the Rocks</a>.</p>
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		<title>The Chain of Peace: Do Supply Chain Chokepoints Deter War?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Phuong Pham]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 07:30:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>The next war over Taiwan may be deterred not by aircraft carriers or nuclear arsenals, but by a Dutch lithography machine. ASML, headquartered in Veldhoven, the Netherlands, is the sole manufacturer of the extreme ultraviolet lithography systems required to produce the world&#8217;s most advanced semiconductors. Without its machines, the most sophisticated foundries on earth &#8212; including those of the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) &#8212; cannot operate. This fact should be at the center of how the United States thinks about deterrence in the Indo-Pacific. Currently, it is not.The conventional wisdom holds that Taiwan&#8217;s semiconductor industry acts as a &#8220;silicon</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://warontherocks.com/the-chain-of-peace-do-supply-chain-chokepoints-deter-war/">The Chain of Peace: Do Supply Chain Chokepoints Deter War?</a> appeared first on <a href="https://warontherocks.com">War on the Rocks</a>.</p>
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		<title>The Maritime Action Plan Needs a Yardstick: Enter the Mahan Ratio</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ander Heiles]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 07:15:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Washington is littered with the corpses of grand plans to restore the Merchant Marine. The Trump administration&#8217;s Maritime Action Plan is the latest attempt, and to its credit, the most comprehensive since World War II.The plan is the government&#8217;s blueprint to resurrect America&#8217;s commercial shipping and domestic shipbuilding industry. The goal is straightforward: build enough merchant ships and train enough civilian mariners to sustain the military through war, while cutting reliance on foreign supply chains in peace. With a $1.5 billion Maritime Security Trust Fund, Maritime Prosperity Zones, and fees on foreign-built vessels, it treats over a half-century of decline</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://warontherocks.com/the-maritime-action-plan-needs-a-yardstick-enter-the-mahan-ratio/">The Maritime Action Plan Needs a Yardstick: Enter the Mahan Ratio</a> appeared first on <a href="https://warontherocks.com">War on the Rocks</a>.</p>
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		<title>Dusting a Dirt Road: How The United States Can Break the Cycle of Failing Military Infrastructure</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jason McMahon]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 08:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Winter Storm Uri ripped through Texas in January 2021. The frigid temperatures froze pipes, which then burst and caused flooding in aging barracks at Fort Hood, many of which were overdue for renovations and had vulnerable mechanical and utility systems. The burst pipes, damaged sprinkler systems, and frozen heating, ventilation, and air conditioning coils affected over 30 barracks, forcing soldiers to relocate and causing nearly $50 million in damage.According to the Department of Defense&#8217;s reporting, the United States owns and operates more than 700,000 facilities across nearly 5,000 sites at home and abroad. Much of this infrastructure is aging. Nearly</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://warontherocks.com/cogs-of-war/dusting-a-dirt-road-how-the-united-states-can-break-the-cycle-of-failing-military-infrastructure/">Dusting a Dirt Road: How The United States Can Break the Cycle of Failing Military Infrastructure</a> appeared first on <a href="https://warontherocks.com">War on the Rocks</a>.</p>
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		<title>Cascading Failure: The Spanish Navy’s Reserve Squadron and the Tragedy of Unpreparedness</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ned Breen]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 07:30:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>&#160;It is in long periods of peace that victories and defeats are prepared. Peace is the period for men of government, just as war is for men of action. Without the calm preparation carried out by the former, the courage and energy of the latter are of no use. &#8212; Captain First Class Ram&#243;n Au&#241;&#243;n y Villal&#243;n, 1885.The Spanish-American War is widely remembered as a moment of triumph for the United States and a disaster for Spain. The war began in 1898 after Spain&#8217;s brutal effort to suppress Cuba&#8217;s independence revolt, American outrage over conditions on the island and the</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://warontherocks.com/cascading-failure-the-spanish-navys-reserve-squadron-and-the-tragedy-of-unpreparedness/">Cascading Failure: The Spanish Navy’s Reserve Squadron and the Tragedy of Unpreparedness</a> appeared first on <a href="https://warontherocks.com">War on the Rocks</a>.</p>
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		<title>How Can Lebanon’s Partners Help Strengthen the Lebanese Armed Forces?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Faysal Itani]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 17:30:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>The Lebanese state&#8217;s lack of effective sovereignty is a crucial problem in efforts to negotiate with Israel and disarm Hizballah. In response to intensified fighting between Israel and Hizballah, the United States began hosting talks between Israel and the Lebanese government in April. However, fighting has continued, and Hizballah recently rejected a proposed ceasefire deal.In 2025, in a historic move, the Lebanese government made plans for the Lebanese Armed Forces to disarm Hizballah. However, the military made slow progress, partly due to fears that more aggressive moves might splinter the Lebanese forces. Meanwhile, Israeli attacks have killed dozens of members</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://warontherocks.com/how-can-lebanons-partners-help-strengthen-the-lebanese-armed-forces/">How Can Lebanon’s Partners Help Strengthen the Lebanese Armed Forces?</a> appeared first on <a href="https://warontherocks.com">War on the Rocks</a>.</p>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lina Khatib]]></dc:creator>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Fadi Nicholas Nassar]]></dc:creator>
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		<title>From Pyongyang to Primorsk: When Sanctions Evasion Becomes System Design</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Olivia Vassalotti]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 07:30:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Rarely a week passes without a new story about Russia&#8217;s shadow fleet. Tankers catch fire in the Mediterranean, are added to sanctions lists, or are boarded while passing through European waters. But the bigger story is not the vessels that are caught, but those that aren&#8217;t &#8212; ships moving between registries, ports, shell companies, and service providers that obscure their ties to Russia while keeping a sanctioned state afloat. The vessels that do get sanctioned are the visible tip of a larger scheme that North Korea spent years running, and Russia has refined at scale.Shadow fleets are typically studied in</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://warontherocks.com/from-pyongyang-to-primorsk-when-sanctions-evasion-becomes-system-design/">From Pyongyang to Primorsk: When Sanctions Evasion Becomes System Design</a> appeared first on <a href="https://warontherocks.com">War on the Rocks</a>.</p>
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		<title>Is Skepticism Ukraine&#8217;s Foreign Policy Playbook?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[WOTR Staff]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 17:43:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Welcome to&#160;The Ukraine Compass, a weekly digest of Ukrainian commentary and analysis from across the political spectrum only for&#160;War on the Rocks&#160;members. Each Monday, we bring you a curated selection of articles from Ukrainian media offering insight into how Ukrainians themselves debate the issues shaping their country.American coverage often narrows the view to the battlefield &#8212; these pieces widen it, revealing the texture of daily life, politics, and public argument in a nation at war. The perspectives gathered here are varied, candid, and often surprising, together forming a more complete picture of Ukraine as it really is.Frontline and Strategy&#1054;&#1073;&#1086;&#1079;&#1088;&#1077;&#1074;&#1072;&#1090;&#1077;&#1083;&#1100; &#8212;</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://warontherocks.com/is-skepticism-ukraines-foreign-policy-playbook/">Is Skepticism Ukraine&#8217;s Foreign Policy Playbook?</a> appeared first on <a href="https://warontherocks.com">War on the Rocks</a>.</p>
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		<title>The Lawmakers Fighting to Modernize the Pentagon</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rep. Pat Ryan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 08:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Congress rarely moves fast, but Reps. Rob Wittman and Pat Ryan are trying to change that. The two lawmakers founded the bipartisan House Defense Modernization Caucus in 2024 and have driven reforms through two consecutive defense authorization acts, targeting acquisitions and other bottlenecks. Jonathan sits down with both congressmen to discuss their initiatives, how a caucus without markup power actually moves legislation, and whether bipartisan cooperation on defense can last.Image: Sgt. 1st Class Rakeem Carter via DVIDS.</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://warontherocks.com/cogs-of-war/the-lawmakers-fighting-to-modernize-the-pentagon/">The Lawmakers Fighting to Modernize the Pentagon</a> appeared first on <a href="https://warontherocks.com">War on the Rocks</a>.</p>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rep. Rob Wittman]]></dc:creator>
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		<title>What Beirut’s Port Scanners Miss About Militant Supply Chains</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Karim Chebaklo]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 07:30:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>At the Port of Beirut, the new scanners did exactly what they were built to do. They saw the lithium batteries. They saw the drone propellers. They saw the fiber optic cable. They matched the scans against the paperwork, found no obvious deception, and cleared the cargo.That was the problem.The threat was not hidden in any single container. It was spread across many of them, arriving over weeks, through different vessels, different companies, and different bills of lading. The AI could identify what each shipment contained, but couldn&#8217;t figure out what those shipments, taken together, might be building toward.As a</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://warontherocks.com/what-beiruts-port-scanners-miss-about-militant-supply-chains/">What Beirut’s Port Scanners Miss About Militant Supply Chains</a> appeared first on <a href="https://warontherocks.com">War on the Rocks</a>.</p>
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		<title>The Pentagon&#8217;s AI Edge Is Being Distilled Away</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sebastian Elbaum]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 08:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Adversaries do not need to breach the Pentagon&#8217;s systems: They only need to harvest the logic of the publicly released frontier AI models that underpin them. This is a defining risk as the Department of Defense pivots to an &#8220;AI-first&#8221; warfighting machine. In this new context, military predominance is a derivative of AI model supremacy. From Project Maven&#8217;s intelligence fusion to the high-velocity sensor-to-shooter loops of Anduril&#8217;s Lattice, the Defense Department&#8217;s most advanced systems are tethered to the frontier models forged by tech heavyweights like Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI. As long as these firms hold the high ground in the</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://warontherocks.com/cogs-of-war/the-pentagons-ai-edge-is-being-distilled-away/">The Pentagon&#8217;s AI Edge Is Being Distilled Away</a> appeared first on <a href="https://warontherocks.com">War on the Rocks</a>.</p>
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		<title>After the Invasion: China Considers the Problem of Ruling Taiwan</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jude Blanchette]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 07:30:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>In August 2024, scholars at a Xiamen-based think tank published a paper urging Beijing to immediately establish a shadow Taiwan government on the Chinese mainland in preparation for a full takeover of the island. &#8220;It is imperative to prepare a plan for the comprehensive takeover of Taiwan after unification,&#8221; they said. The scholars were writing at a fraught moment for Beijing.Only months earlier, the anti-China Democratic Progressive Party had taken office after a third consecutive presidential election win. Unusually for a Chinese publication on such a sensitive topic, the paper made several frank admissions: that opposition to unification within Taiwan</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://warontherocks.com/after-the-invasion-china-considers-the-problem-of-ruling-taiwan/">After the Invasion: China Considers the Problem of Ruling Taiwan</a> appeared first on <a href="https://warontherocks.com">War on the Rocks</a>.</p>
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		<title>Is Time on China’s Side? Beijing’s Taiwan Calculus and the Balance of Power</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dean Cheng]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 16:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>When is the risk of war the highest? And what should the United States be doing about it? One of the most important but underappreciated questions in international politics is how states think about the future balance of power. Countries that believe their position is improving often choose patience. Those who fear their position is deteriorating may feel pressure to act before their advantages disappear. In this episode,&#160;Ryan&#160;is joined by Dean Cheng, Mira Rapp-Hooper, and Amanda Hsiao to explore how Chinese leaders may be thinking about time, power, and Taiwan. This episode is sponsored by Kibu, which ensures&#160;you always know</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://warontherocks.com/is-time-on-chinas-side-beijings-taiwan-calculus-and-the-balance-of-power/">Is Time on China’s Side? Beijing’s Taiwan Calculus and the Balance of Power</a> appeared first on <a href="https://warontherocks.com">War on the Rocks</a>.</p>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mira Rapp-Hooper]]></dc:creator>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Amanda Hsiao]]></dc:creator>
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		<title>Forged in a Knife Fight: China&#8217;s Brutal Domestic AI Competition</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Lin]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 08:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>China&#8217;s plan to become a world leader in AI by 2030 is a fixture of practically every Congressional briefing and expert commentary on Beijing&#8217;s AI ambitions. The plan&#8217;s logic &#8212; introduced in 2017 &#8212; was simple and alarming: Beijing would direct capital, mobilize its firms, recruit talent, and execute with the strategic patience of a state-led innovation ecosystem. Nearly a decade later, that frame has only hardened. Beijing&#8217;s recently issued 15th Five-Year Plan directs Party organs to take &#8220;extraordinary measures&#8221; to strengthen technological self-reliance and launch a new &#8220;AI+&#8221; initiative to integrate AI across the nation&#8217;s strategic sectors. Beijing has</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://warontherocks.com/cogs-of-war/forged-in-a-knife-fight-chinas-brutal-domestic-ai-competition/">Forged in a Knife Fight: China&#8217;s Brutal Domestic AI Competition</a> appeared first on <a href="https://warontherocks.com">War on the Rocks</a>.</p>
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		<title>Revisiting The Importance of the Battle of Midway</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[BJ Armstrong]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 07:30:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>The Battle of Midway has assumed a place in American naval lore that has put it on par with other great battles in world naval history. What Salamis was for the Greeks, Trafalgar for the British Royal Navy, and Tsushima for the Japanese, the clash northwest of Midway Island on June 4, 1942, represents for the U.S. Navy. It was a moment of heroism, professional skill, and victory, which came to define how the Navy viewed itself for the rest of the 20th century and beyond.Unlike those other great battles, however, Midway was a decidedly modern naval operation. It involved</p>
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		<title>Wrong Audience, Wrong Ask: Why Trump’s Abraham Accords Gambit Falls on Deaf Ears</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[H. A. Hellyer]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 07:15:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>When President Donald Trump repeatedly pressed regional leaders on Abraham Accords expansion late last month &#8212; framing Arab-Israeli normalization as a debt owed and a condition for a settlement to end the Iran war &#8212; he apparently commented there had been silence on the other end of the line.Arab and Muslim states are not silent because they lack a position on normalization. Indeed, collectively they have already articulated one through the Arab Peace Initiative &#173;&#8212; the 2002 proposal that offered normalized relations between Israel and over 50 countries. In exchange, it required Israel to fully withdraw from occupied territories, agree</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://warontherocks.com/wrong-audience-wrong-ask-why-trumps-abraham-accords-gambit-falls-on-deaf-ears/">Wrong Audience, Wrong Ask: Why Trump’s Abraham Accords Gambit Falls on Deaf Ears</a> appeared first on <a href="https://warontherocks.com">War on the Rocks</a>.</p>
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		<title>Will China and the United States Pursue Strategic Stability?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael D. Swaine]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 17:30:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>In 2024, Michael Swaine wrote, &#8220;How to Stop the United States and China from Sliding into War,&#8221; where he identified areas that could increase the possibility of an armed conflict between the United States and China. Two years later, after recent talks between President Trump and President Xi, we asked Michael to revisit his arguments.Image: U.S. Department of StateIn your 2024 article, you flagged a rising possibility of major armed conflict between China and the United States. That was before American forces became militarily involved in Iran. Does that involvement change your calculus? And critically &#8212; does it deter Beijing,</p>
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		<title>The Rain in Spain Falls Harder on Ukraine: Rethinking the Spanish Civil War Analogy</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Andrew Mitchell]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 07:30:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>In 2023, the NATO Baltic Defense College in Tartu, Estonia devoted its entire annual conference to the Interwar Period (1919 to 1939), a theme repeated at subsequent conferences sponsored by national militaries and academic societies throughout the United States and Europe. Western scholars and foreign policy analysts, provoked by Russia&#8217;s 2022 invasion of Ukraine, seem persuaded that we are living at the close of another interwar era &#8212; one in which an egotistical European power shatters a decades-long continental truce, established and upheld by an international rules-based order, by invading a smaller neighbor ostensibly to defend threatened national minorities. A</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://warontherocks.com/the-rain-in-spain-falls-harder-on-ukraine-rethinking-the-spanish-civil-war-analogy/">The Rain in Spain Falls Harder on Ukraine: Rethinking the Spanish Civil War Analogy</a> appeared first on <a href="https://warontherocks.com">War on the Rocks</a>.</p>
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		<title>Does the Quad Still Matter?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lisa Curtis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 18:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>On May 26, India hosted a formal meeting of the foreign ministers of the Quad &#8212; comprising the United States, Australia, India, and Japan. Since its initial creation in 2007 and revival in 2017, foreign policy analysts have debated the usefulness of the organization, which was designed as a group of democratic states that could work together to counter growing Chinese power and influence. Under the second Trump administration, some analysts have expressed growing pessimism about the group&#8217;s effectiveness, given the president&#8217;s apparent lack of interest in attending a meeting with heads of state. Nonetheless, U.S. Secretary of State Marco</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://warontherocks.com/does-the-quad-still-matter/">Does the Quad Still Matter?</a> appeared first on <a href="https://warontherocks.com">War on the Rocks</a>.</p>
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		<title>Between Beijing and the Budget: The Domestic Realities of Taiwan’s Defense Spending Drama</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jessica C. Liao]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 07:30:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>On May 8, Taiwan&#8217;s Legislative Yuan broke a grueling six-month stalemate by passing a landmark $25 billion defense budget, catching many observers off guard. The vote brought sudden end to an agonizing legislative deadlock that had pushed U.S.-Taiwanese relations to the edge. For months, long-simmering frustration in Washington over Taiwan&#8217;s defense trajectory has threatened to boil over, catalyzed by an unprecedented bipartisan open letter from U.S. senators, demanding that Taiwan authorize the pending defense packages. The optics grew even more fraught as Cheng Li-wun, the newly elected chairwoman of the Kuomintang, Taiwan&#8217;s largest opposition party, embarked on a controversial &#8220;peace&#8221;</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://warontherocks.com/between-beijing-and-the-budget-the-domestic-realities-of-taiwans-defense-spending-drama/">Between Beijing and the Budget: The Domestic Realities of Taiwan’s Defense Spending Drama</a> appeared first on <a href="https://warontherocks.com">War on the Rocks</a>.</p>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sujit Raman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 07:15:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>In late February 2026, Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz to foreign shipping. What began as a chaotic wartime closure has, in the past few days, hardened into something more consequential: an official sovereign toll regime, codified in Iranian law, and priced in cryptocurrency.On May 18, Iran operationally launched the Persian Gulf Strait Authority, a formal state bureaucracy with its own internet domain (pgsa.ir), account on X, and contact email. Since then, Tehran has delineated a &#8220;management supervision area&#8221; across the strait and announced a transit-permit scheme that converts Hormuz from an international waterway into a vetted toll plaza.Under the</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://warontherocks.com/the-toll-booth-at-the-throat-of-world-trade/">The Toll Booth at the Throat of World Trade</a> appeared first on <a href="https://warontherocks.com">War on the Rocks</a>.</p>
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		<title>Building a Better Ukraine Requires Accessibility Reforms</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 17:15:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Welcome to&#160;The Ukraine Compass, a weekly digest of Ukrainian commentary and analysis from across the political spectrum only for&#160;War on the Rocks&#160;members. Each Monday, we bring you a curated selection of articles from Ukrainian media offering insight into how Ukrainians themselves debate the issues shaping their country.American coverage often narrows the view to the battlefield &#8212; these pieces widen it, revealing the texture of daily life, politics, and public argument in a nation at war. The perspectives gathered here are varied, candid, and often surprising, together forming a more complete picture of Ukraine as it really is.Frontline and Strategy&#1043;&#1072;&#1079;&#1077;&#1090;&#1072;&#8212; Gazeta</p>
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		<title>Fences Not F-35s: Drone Attacks and the Illogic of Gulf Procurement</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David B. Roberts]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 07:30:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>One of the most effective counter-drone systems in the largest drone war in history between Ukraine and Russia is a German anti-aircraft gun designed during the Cold War. The Gepard &#8212; a self-propelled 35 mm cannon that first entered service in 1976 &#8212; has earned recognition from Ukrainian military experts as the most effective weapon against Shahed-type drones, at a cost of a few thousand dollars per engagement. Meanwhile, one of the more novel counter-drone technologies amounts to a sharpened prong mounted on another drone that lances its target mid-flight &#8212; a 12th-century solution to a 21st-century problem.Then there is</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://warontherocks.com/fences-not-f-35s-drone-attacks-and-the-illogic-of-gulf-procurement/">Fences Not F-35s: Drone Attacks and the Illogic of Gulf Procurement</a> appeared first on <a href="https://warontherocks.com">War on the Rocks</a>.</p>
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		<title>Deterring Russia Beneath the Waves: Securing NATO’s Critical Undersea Infrastructure</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Samu Paukkunen]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 07:15:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>What would happen if you woke up one morning and the internet was gone &#8212; not from a software glitch, but because someone had simply cut the wire?Threats to critical undersea infrastructure are rapidly escalating. In 2023, the Balticonnector pipeline and several Baltic data cables were damaged. A year later, four Red Sea cables were cut, disrupting a quarter of data traffic between Asia and Europe, with further incidents across the Baltic. In total, between January 2024 and July 2025, roughly 44 incidents of cable damage were recorded. Not all were deliberate, but Russia&#8217;s activity has grown brazen. In 2025,</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://warontherocks.com/deterring-russia-beneath-the-waves-securing-natos-critical-undersea-infrastructure/">Deterring Russia Beneath the Waves: Securing NATO’s Critical Undersea Infrastructure</a> appeared first on <a href="https://warontherocks.com">War on the Rocks</a>.</p>
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		<title>How America Lost Its Most Important Defense Tech Habit</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jack Barry]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2026 08:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>On April 15, technology podcaster Dwarkesh Patel published a two-hour interview with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. For roughly forty minutes, Patel asked one question six different ways. The question was this: If American-made compute trains AI models with the serious cyber-offensive capabilities Anthropic&#8217;s Mythos Preview demonstrated &#8212; and that compute is sold to a strategic adversary &#8212; what responsibility does the seller bear?Huang&#8217;s answers hovered a safe distance away from the question. AI is a &#8220;five-layer cake,&#8221; he told Patel, and ceding any layer to China would be industrial suicide. The Chinese, he argued, already have enough compute to do</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://warontherocks.com/cogs-of-war/how-america-lost-its-most-important-defense-tech-habit/">How America Lost Its Most Important Defense Tech Habit</a> appeared first on <a href="https://warontherocks.com">War on the Rocks</a>.</p>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jay Tilden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2026 07:30:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Among some nuclear strategists, military officers, and lawmakers, a belief bordering on the canonical has taken root that the United States is on the short end of a &#8220;deterrence gap&#8221; with Russia and China. Both countries, and especially Russia, possess theater-range nuclear weapons, whose comparatively small yield is thought to lower the threshold for their use. The relative dearth of these capabilities on the American side, so the thinking goes, denies Washington the ability to answer a limited regional nuclear strike with a comparable response and thus deter such an attack in the first place. Adversaries may therefore see an</p>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Andy Polk]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2026 07:15:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>A pair of children&#8217;s shoes is an odd place to look for the changing dynamics of American power. But stick with me because, after the past year, it is one of the clearest places to see them.Long before those shoes reach a store shelf, tariffs have raised the cost of materials, components, and importation. Oil touches nearly everything else: synthetic fabrics, foam, adhesives, packaging, and freight. When both shocks arrive together, companies cut margins, cut orders, cheapen materials, delay investment, and eventually pass the pain on to consumers. Now, multiply that across the economy, and you start to see the</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://warontherocks.com/glass-jaw-the-new-economic-fragility-recasting-american-power/">Glass Jaw? The New Economic Fragility Recasting American Power</a> appeared first on <a href="https://warontherocks.com">War on the Rocks</a>.</p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 18:30:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Welcome to The Adversarial.&#160;Every other week, we&#8217;ll provide you with expert analysis on America&#8217;s greatest challengers: China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, and jihadists. Read more below.***IranThere has been increasing chatter that Washington and Tehran are nearing an agreement that might wind down the war launched by the United States and Israel on Feb. 28. The truce that took effect seven weeks ago has been a prickly affair, with occasional fire at Gulf states and tit-for-tats at sea &#8212; including in recent days, which have seen U.S. forces strike missile sites and vessels in southern Iran as well as shooting down</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://warontherocks.com/hollow-deals-tricky-negotiations-and-state-visits/">Hollow Deals, Tricky Negotiations, and State Visits</a> appeared first on <a href="https://warontherocks.com">War on the Rocks</a>.</p>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rose Gottemoeller]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 16:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Rose Gottemoeller joined Ryan in Washington. They discussed how the West might think about relations with Russia once the war with Ukraine ends, as well as nuclear diplomacy and other critical issues. Gottemoeller was the deputy secretary general of NATO and, before that, served as a senior State Department official. She is currently at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University and has a new book out called&#160;Security Through Cooperation:&#160;Space, Nuclear Weapons, and US-Russia Relations after the Cold War&#160;(Stanford University Press).Image: Kremlin.ru via &#65279;Wikimedia Commons&#160;Image: Kremlin.ru via Wikimedia Commons</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://warontherocks.com/what-would-relations-with-post-war-russia-look-like/">What Would Relations with Post-War Russia Look Like?</a> appeared first on <a href="https://warontherocks.com">War on the Rocks</a>.</p>
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		<title>Control Without Ownership: How China&#8217;s Party-Business Networks Dominate Indonesia&#8217;s Mineral Supply Chains</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ahmad Syarif]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 08:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>In 2024, when Jiangsu Delong, the world&#8217;s second-largest stainless-steel producer, filed for bankruptcy, several Chinese firms and state-owned enterprises quietly absorbed its Indonesian assets. Among them was China First Heavy Industries, a state-owned enterprise founded in 1954 as one of China&#8217;s early Soviet-backed industrial projects. Today, China First Heavy Industries supplies military-grade metals to China&#8217;s military, including reactor vessels for nuclear submarines. For a manufacturer embedded deeply in China&#8217;s naval industrial base, securing nickel feedstock for specialty steels is crucial.The episode reveals China&#8217;s strategy for critical minerals: Incentivizing access to upstream assets for Chinese firms reduces the risk of supply</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://warontherocks.com/cogs-of-war/control-without-ownership-how-chinas-party-business-networks-dominate-indonesias-mineral-supply-chains/">Control Without Ownership: How China&#8217;s Party-Business Networks Dominate Indonesia&#8217;s Mineral Supply Chains</a> appeared first on <a href="https://warontherocks.com">War on the Rocks</a>.</p>
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		<title>A Sea Control Revolution?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Richard Dunley]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 07:30:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Sea control has changed. In recent years, there has been a quiet revolution in maritime strategy that has seen navies increasingly expected to exert greater levels of control over more of the world&#8217;s oceans, more of the time. Whether it is NATO forces protecting critical maritime infrastructure in the Baltic, Pacific Island nations requiring maritime domain awareness to protect against illegal fishing, or Chinese coast guard and maritime militia vessels occupying features in the South China Sea, navies across the globe are confronting major challenges and are being forced to operate in new and novel ways. Behind all of this</p>
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		<title>What Everyone is Missing About North Korea’s Reunification Strategy</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Hyunseung Lee]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 07:15:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>When news broke that North Korea had revised its constitution, analysts in the West and across the Korean Peninsula rushed to declare it the formal death of Korean reunification as a policy objective. The changes were hard to ignore. Pyongyang stripped all references to a unified Korean nation, codified a territorial clause treating the Republic of Korea as a separate foreign state, vested direct nuclear weapons authority in Kim Jong-un personally, and concentrated near-absolute executive power in the supreme leader alone. On the surface, it looked like the official burial of seven decades of unification ideology.That reading is seductive. It&#8217;s</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://warontherocks.com/what-everyone-is-missing-about-north-koreas-reunification-strategy/">What Everyone is Missing About North Korea’s Reunification Strategy</a> appeared first on <a href="https://warontherocks.com">War on the Rocks</a>.</p>
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		<title>What Did the NPT Review Conference Achieve?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ankit Panda]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2026 19:15:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>The 11th&#160;Review Conference&#160;of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT)&#160;concluded on May 22. Held every five years, the conference offers an opportunity to evaluate the treaty&#8217;s implementation, respond to technological and geopolitical developments, and reinforce states&#8217; commitment to the treaty. For the third time in a row, the conference failed to reach consensus on a final document.We asked five experts for their perspectives on what the conference achieved &#8212; or failed to achieve.Read more below.Ankit Panda Stanton Senior Fellow in the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Host of War on the Rocks&#8217; Thinking the Unthinkable PodcastWhile the</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://warontherocks.com/what-did-the-npt-review-conference-achieve/">What Did the NPT Review Conference Achieve?</a> appeared first on <a href="https://warontherocks.com">War on the Rocks</a>.</p>
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[Christopher Ford]]></dc:creator>
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		<title>Washington Shouldn’t Fly Solo on Building Space Superiority</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nazmelis Zengin]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2026 18:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>In 2025, Nazmelis Zengin wrote, &#8220;The Fragility of U.S. Space Power in a Multipolar World,&#8221; where she argued Washington&#8217;s space superiority could be challenged if the United States doesn&#8217;t rethink its course, taking lessons from mid-tier space powers. A year later, we asked Nazmelis to revisit her arguments.Image: NASA Kennedy Space Center/NASA/Chris Swanson via&#160;Wikimedia CommonsIn your 2025 article, you argued that American space dominance could be challenged if the United States doesn&#8217;t alter how it systematically thinks about adaptability, resilience, and co-development, taking lessons from mid-tier space powers. In late 2025, President Trump signed Executive Order &#8220;Ensuring American Space Superiority,&#8221;</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://warontherocks.com/washington-shouldnt-fly-solo-on-building-space-superiority/">Washington Shouldn’t Fly Solo on Building Space Superiority</a> appeared first on <a href="https://warontherocks.com">War on the Rocks</a>.</p>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lennart Heim]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2026 08:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Is it too late to stop criminals and American adversaries from exploiting AI to conduct cyberattacks or design novel pathogens? Has regulation kept pace with the threat civilian drones pose to critical infrastructure? AI researcher Lennart Heim, Army drone strategist Paul Lushenko, and CEO of Sentinel Bio Claire Qureshi join Jonathan to discuss the trade-offs between protecting the public and letting the private sector forge ahead. The conversation gets into synthetic DNA, the risk of drones at the FIFA World Cup, and whether the U.S. government should get early access to Silicon Valley&#8217;s newest large language models.Image: T. T. Paris</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://warontherocks.com/cogs-of-war/synthetic-biology-drones-and-ai-the-risks-of-dual-use-technologies/">Synthetic Biology, Drones, and AI: The Risks of Dual-Use Technologies</a> appeared first on <a href="https://warontherocks.com">War on the Rocks</a>.</p>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Lushenko]]></dc:creator>
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		<title>The Road to Space Runs through the Poles</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rebecca Pincus]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2026 07:30:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Why are there more antennas on Svalbard than anywhere else on Earth? Svalbard of all places, where cats and childbirth are banned and there are more polar bears than people? This cluster of islands in the Arctic, one thousand kilometers from Norway, is key to everything from your weather forecast to your car&#8217;s navigation. At 78 degrees north, Svalbard is the highest-latitude satellite ground station on Earth and is a crucial point in humanity&#8217;s growing dependence on space. In fact, the polar regions &#8212; the Arctic and Antarctic &#8212; are both crucial to space access.The polar regions are the only</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://warontherocks.com/the-road-to-space-runs-through-the-poles/">The Road to Space Runs through the Poles</a> appeared first on <a href="https://warontherocks.com">War on the Rocks</a>.</p>
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		<title>Leading in the Dark: How Submarine Commanders Think Under Uncertainty</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paulo Frade]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2026 07:15:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>We had been tracking the contact for six hours.The acoustic signature was ambiguous. The geometry was incomplete. The tactical picture had shifted twice in the preceding hour.I ordered battle stations anyway. Not because I was certain, I was not. I ordered it because the decision window was closing. Waiting for certainty was no longer a strategy, it was a risk. That moment &#8212; the space between incomplete knowledge and irreversible action &#8212; is where submarine command lives. It is where I spent 14 years.Modern militaries have spent decades trying to eliminate that space. Networked sensors, satellite surveillance, and instantaneous communications</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://warontherocks.com/leading-in-the-dark-how-submarine-commanders-think-under-uncertainty/">Leading in the Dark: How Submarine Commanders Think Under Uncertainty</a> appeared first on <a href="https://warontherocks.com">War on the Rocks</a>.</p>
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		<title>Understanding the Value of Ukrainian Railways</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2026 15:30:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Welcome to&#160;The Ukraine Compass, a weekly digest of Ukrainian commentary and analysis from across the political spectrum only for&#160;War on the Rocks&#160;members. Each Monday, we bring you a curated selection of articles from Ukrainian media offering insight into how Ukrainians themselves debate the issues shaping their country.American coverage often narrows the view to the battlefield &#8212; these pieces widen it, revealing the texture of daily life, politics, and public argument in a nation at war. The perspectives gathered here are varied, candid, and often surprising, together forming a more complete picture of Ukraine as it really is.Frontline and Strategy&#1062;&#1077;&#1085;&#1079;&#1086;&#1088;.&#1053;&#1045;&#1058; &#8212;</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://warontherocks.com/understanding-the-value-of-ukrainian-railways/">Understanding the Value of Ukrainian Railways</a> appeared first on <a href="https://warontherocks.com">War on the Rocks</a>.</p>
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		<title>An Inconvenient Reality: Climate-Preparedness Cuts Are Lethality Cuts</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Caitlin Irby]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2026 07:30:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>In 2019, the Missouri River flooded at historically high levels and damaged 137 facilities, destroyed 1.2 million square feet of workspace, and flooded 3,000 feet of runway at Offutt Air Force Base. Repairing the installation cost $1.2 billion. The Trump administration and Department of Defense justified $1.2 billion in budget reductions to the U.S. Geological Survey, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and Defense Department climate programs as cuts to &#8220;woke&#8221; climate or environmental initiatives, but a singular event caused sufficient damage to erase those savings.The lethality of American presence in the Pacific depends upon the resilience of bases, ports, and</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://warontherocks.com/an-inconvenient-reality-climate-preparedness-cuts-are-lethality-cuts/">An Inconvenient Reality: Climate-Preparedness Cuts Are Lethality Cuts</a> appeared first on <a href="https://warontherocks.com">War on the Rocks</a>.</p>
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		<title>The U.S. Military Lacks an Ethics Doctrine. Combat Effectiveness Suffers</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dennis W. Katolin]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2026 07:15:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>In 2004, I was a boot (translation: brand new) first lieutenant in 1st Battalion, 7th Marines at a retransmission site in the middle of nowhere, al-Qa&#8217;im, Iraq. I heard a sudden explosion and small-arms fire two kilometers away. The battalion radio net burst with chatter, with someone saying there were three casualties: two urgent surgicals (send help quickly!) and one routine (no rush to provide aid). Someone in the operating center asked about the status of the routine casualty, and the radio crackled with the kind of transmission that changes everything. &#8220;It&#8217;s Whiskey Six, he&#8217;s KIA [killed in action].&#8221; I</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://warontherocks.com/the-u-s-military-lacks-an-ethics-doctrine-combat-effectiveness-suffers/">The U.S. Military Lacks an Ethics Doctrine. Combat Effectiveness Suffers</a> appeared first on <a href="https://warontherocks.com">War on the Rocks</a>.</p>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark Rosenblatt]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2026 07:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Editor&#8217;s note: This is the ninth article in an 11-part series examining how the United States should organize, lead, and integrate economic statecraft into strategy, defense practice, and the broader national security ecosystem. The special series is brought to you by the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies and War on the Rocks. Prior installments can be found at the War by Other Ledgers page.In September 2010, after a Chinese fishing trawler captain was detained near the Senkaku Islands,&#160;Beijing halted rare-earth exports to Japan. The embargo lasted weeks. China showed, on a U.S. treaty ally, how a supply chain could be</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://warontherocks.com/rebuilding-american-manufacturing-a-keystone-for-economic-statecraft/">Rebuilding American Manufacturing: A Keystone for Economic Statecraft</a> appeared first on <a href="https://warontherocks.com">War on the Rocks</a>.</p>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Adam A. Scher]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 07:30:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>On this Memorial Day, American servicemembers remain deployed across the world. Many are in harm&#8217;s way. This simple fact makes the day less abstract, more real. Memorial Day is not only about wars filed away in history, but also about lives lost in service to the nation and the obligations those losses place on the living.For those who served in combat, the day is intensely personal. It is a day of names, missions, and memories that never fade away entirely. Three of the fallen return to me every year: Cpl. Andrew J. Kemple, 2nd Lt. Tracy Lynn Alger, and Sgt.</p>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Catarina Buchatskiy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 08:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>This exclusive Cogs of War interview is with Catarina Buchatskiy, the co-founder and director of analytics at the Snake Island Institute, a Kyiv-based defense analytics center, and Viktoriia Honcharuk, the institute&#8217;s director of defense technologies. We asked them to share their views on how Ukraine&#8217;s military and defense firms turn battlefield feedback into rapid innovation, what Western investors and defense tech companies can learn from Ukraine, and what a future Ukraine-West defense industrial partnership might look like.&#160;Sign Up for Our Newsletter&#160;American and allied defense companies often speak about testing their products in Ukraine, but few have consistently done so. Why</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://warontherocks.com/cogs-of-war/inside-ukraines-battlefield-innovation-loop/">Inside Ukraine’s Battlefield Innovation Loop</a> appeared first on <a href="https://warontherocks.com">War on the Rocks</a>.</p>
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		<title>The Pentagon Still Cannot Manage Cyber Talent at Scale. Here’s the Fix.</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Henry Phillips]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 07:30:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>The Department of Defense does not primarily have a cyber recruiting problem &#8212; it has a cyber talent management problem. The military already possesses serious qualification frameworks, scholarship programs, credentialing systems, and selection tools. What it still lacks is a system tying assessment, training, assignment, performance, and retention together across an entire cyber career.In March 2026, the department announced at its Cyber Workforce Summit 2.0 an effort to reinvent the cyber workforce. Called Cyber Command 2.0, this effort&#8217;s principal goal is improvement in talent management by focusing on identifying, recruiting, hiring, and retaining the right people. The effort also emphasizes</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://warontherocks.com/the-pentagon-still-cannot-manage-cyber-talent-at-scale-heres-the-fix/">The Pentagon Still Cannot Manage Cyber Talent at Scale. Here’s the Fix.</a> appeared first on <a href="https://warontherocks.com">War on the Rocks</a>.</p>
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		<title>The Kid Rock Flyby Controversy and the Erosion of Military Professionalism</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jason Dempsey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 07:15:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>During Congressional testimony from Department of Defense leadership last week, Representative George Whitesides asked Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, &#8220;How does canceling a command-initiated review support a culture of accountability?&#8221; But before the secretary could answer, Whitesides instead decided to direct the question to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Dan Caine. Clearly uncomfortable with the question, Caine replied, &#8220;What you are alluding to &#8230; is a partisan question.&#8221; The exchange occupied only a few minutes amid days of acrimonious testimony focused primarily on the war with Iran, but reflected how partisan considerations have now extended to</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://warontherocks.com/the-kid-rock-flyby-controversy-and-the-erosion-of-military-professionalism/">The Kid Rock Flyby Controversy and the Erosion of Military Professionalism</a> appeared first on <a href="https://warontherocks.com">War on the Rocks</a>.</p>
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		<title>China&#8217;s AI Governance Offensive Threatens U.S. Tech Leadership</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Audrye Wong]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 08:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>China&#8217;s diplomats are on an &#8220;AI governance&#8221; offensive. At a May 5 United Nations meeting, China&#8217;s vice minister of science and technology championed China&#8217;s role in shaping U.N.-led frameworks that determine how the technology should be built and used. Just a week earlier, two top Chinese AI experts actively involved in Beijing&#8217;s governance efforts appeared by video on a Capitol Hill panel discussion hosted by Senator Bernie Sanders, touting China&#8217;s contributions to AI safety and cooperation.Norms and standards on AI development and applications are still being defined. Being a standards-setter rather than a standards-follower can simultaneously solidify a country&#8217;s technological</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://warontherocks.com/cogs-of-war/chinas-ai-governance-offensive-threatens-u-s-tech-leadership/">China&#8217;s AI Governance Offensive Threatens U.S. Tech Leadership</a> appeared first on <a href="https://warontherocks.com">War on the Rocks</a>.</p>
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		<title>The Operational Case Against Israel’s Gaza Campaign</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Andy Milburn]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 07:30:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Irregular Warfare]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Gaza did not have to look the way it looks. That is not a moral claim. It is an operational one.Claims of necessity are invoked to explain the scale of civilian harm, but they founder in the face of operational logic. Supporters of Israeli methods argue that Gaza&#8217;s urban battlefield &#8212; tunnels, rocket fire, extreme population density, hostages held underground &#8212; left no viable alternative to large-scale destruction. That argument rests on a false assumption: that large-scale fires were inevitable rather than chosen, and that the only tradeoff was between more fires and mission failure. That is a false choice,</p>
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		<title>Europe’s Dangerous Hunger Games for American Troops</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Vytautas Leškevičius]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 07:15:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Every time reports emerge about a potential reduction of U.S. forces or capabilities in Europe, the old continent falls into the same cycle of anxiety and panic. The same applies to announcements about delayed or suspended deployments, planned rotations, or broader force posture reviews.A brief historical reminder here is necessary.&#160;&#160;The 2014 Wales Defense Investment Pledge is still often misunderstood in Europe as little more than an American demand for higher defense spending. In reality, it reflected something broader already taking shape in Washington: the expectation that Europe would gradually assume far greater responsibility for conventional defense on its own continent.</p>
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		<title>A Check-In On North Korea and Russia’s Wartime Partnership</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Choong-Koo Lee]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 17:30:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>In 2025, Choong-Koo Lee wrote, &#8220;Putting the Screws on the Partnership Between North Korea and Russia,&#8221; where he argued that the United States and South Korea should work together to weaken Pyongyang and Moscow&#8217;s military relationship. A year later, we asked him to revisit his arguments.Image: The Kremlin via&#160;Wikimedia CommonsIn your 2025 article, you argued that the United States and South Korea should work together to limit the deepening military relationship between Russia and North Korea. How has the U.S.-South Korean relationship evolved over the past year, and what does that mean for the prospects of any joint effort? Separately,</p>
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		<title>The Navy Needs Precise Mass and Here Is How to Get There</title>
		<link>https://warontherocks.com/the-navy-needs-precise-mass-and-here-is-how-to-get-there/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Horowitz]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 07:30:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Autonomy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seapower]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[U.S.-Chinese Competition]]></category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://warontherocks.com/?p=44392</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[<p>Maintaining deterrence in the Indo-Pacific and around the world requires the U.S. Navy to change what it builds and how it fights. Sen. Roger Wicker observed in 2024 that the United States&#8217; approach to fleet design and ship construction is &#8220;too small and too old.&#8221; The current model of naval power cannot scale at the speed modern war demands. The war with Iran is already exposing the limits. High-end ships are being consumed in sustained operations, munitions inventories are thinning, and replacement timelines for exquisite weapons stretch into years. Against a more capable adversary, such as China, those constraints would</p>
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