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Richard Beck, Homeland: The War on Terror in American Life (Penguin, 2024). Almost a quarter-century after 9/11, the War on Terror no longer dominates U.S. foreign policy and is less central to our politics and culture. While this conflict has few defenders today, the questions of why it was fought, how it went awry, and what this history means for the future of U.S. policy are still up in the air. For the restraint movement, associated with organizations like the Quincy Institute, the Cato Institute, and Defense Priorities, the War on Terror was a string of unmitigated disasters.

Defense technology firm Anduril announced Thursday that it has developed a new line of air-breathing, software-defined, autonomous cruise missiles — one of which is the company’s offering for the Air Force’s ongoing Enterprise Test Vehicle program.
The Barracuda family of weapons leverage a modular design that enables the missiles to be mass-produced at low cost and high volume in order to meet the Defense Department’s growing demand for munitions.