Author: Michael

A targeting screen fills with structures, heat signatures, and a rapidly closing window. Aircraft have only minutes of fuel left when an AI highlights a single building, and suddenly the decision space collapses to one bright box.This is the triage trap: a pattern in which AI-enabled workflows determine which options reach command judgment in the first place, before a commander weighs alternatives. What the model elevates becomes the decision — what it filters out disappears. This is not captured in mission command or command and control doctrine.

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In January 2025, when the Trump administration froze nearly all foreign aid, more than 1,000 emergency communal kitchens in Sudan shut down within weeks. Half a million displaced people lost access to clean water. Famine conditions that had been held at bay collapsed into crisis. Within months, Russian grain ships arrived in African ports and Chinese agricultural delegations expanded across the continent. Decisions made in Washington marked the end of seven decades of American dominance in humanitarian food assistance and the rise of two powers with fundamentally different models.

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has reportedly requested that U.S. President Donald Trump postpone plans for a military attack on Iran, according to a senior U.S. official who spoke to the New York Times. This follows the outbreak of widespread protests, riots and paramiltiary attacks within the Iran, reportedly resulting in the deaths of close to 200 security forces, which was seen to provide an optimal opportunity for the country’s adversaries to escalate.

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Secretary of War Hegseth worked out with ROTC cadets in UCLA stadium last week at 5am during the Arsenal of Freedom Tour.
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Leading U.S. aerospace and defence firm Northrop Grumman has confirmed the delivery of the 1,500th centre fuselage for the F-35 fifth generation fighter from its Integrated Assembly Line in Palmdale, California. This was reportedly achieved as a result of major improvements to the application of more advanced factory automation and advanced manufacturing technologies. The firm’s Integrated Assembly Line now produces one centre fuselage every 30 hours, allows seamless production across all three variants – the F-35A developed for the U.S.

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Synopsis and Key Points: Washington’s intensified focus on Greenland is framed as homeland risk management driven by polar vulnerabilities that cut across Greenland and Canada’s northern approaches.

-The argument treats North America as a single defensive system where missiles, bombers, submarines, and cyber operations exploit seams in Arctic warning and coverage. Greenland’s strategic value is tied to missile warning, space domain awareness, and command-and-control infrastructure anchored by Pituffik, but broader presence is presented as insufficient given evolving threats.

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