Author: Michael

When journalists or policy experts fretfully discuss arms racing and military buildups in the Indo-Pacific, they tend to focus on Northeast Asian autocracies rather than Southeast Asian democracies. And yet Indonesia, a historically non-aligned nation with no recent history of great-power war, is currently engaged in a process of unprecedented military expansion. If fully realized, this sweeping set of reforms will grow its total active-duty personnel to over 1.2 million in just five years.

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After a renewed push from President Donald Trump for America to annex Greenland from Denmark, NATO reportedly agreed on a “framework of a future deal” this week that could involve potential U.S. rights over the Arctic island’s critical minerals, as well as new collaboration associated with the Trump administration’s proposed Golden Dome missile defense system.

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For decades, Russia’s military has lived in the West’s imagination as a looming, mechanized nightmare: the kind that comes with gray paint, ominous marching music, and enough tanks to remind anyone of World War II’s Eastern Front. And to be fair, Moscow has (allegedly) built some genuinely formidable hardware.
But the problem with trying to flex all the time is that history has a way of kicking the legs out from under the propaganda, because alongside the successes sits a glorious junk drawer of big, expensive, and public disasters.

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L Todd Wood and Pete Blaber discuss the continuing globalist propaganda on Ukraine. Just the truth, Ma’am.
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The Marine Corps officially designated GenAI.mil as its preferred large language model platform this week, a move that largely distances the service from older AI systems that are owned and operated by other branches of the military.
In a force-wide message published Wednesday, the Corps said GenAI.mil — the Pentagon’s recently launched hub for commercial large language models — is authorized for all Marines, civilians and contractors to use.

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