Nine countries now possess nuclear weapons. Arms control agreements painstakingly built over decades have collapsed. Geopolitical competition is intensifying rivalries between nuclear-armed powers. North Korea continues expanding its arsenal and delivery systems. China is on a trajectory to go from roughly 600 warheads today to around 1,500 by 2035. Meanwhile, Russia bears most of the responsibility for the expiration of New START and is developing an array of exotic new nuclear delivery systems designed to circumvent missile defenses.
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The White House has the right instinct on AI. Its June 5 National Security Presidential Memorandum commits the government to putting the most capable models in the hands of national security professionals “without delay.” The military version of that bet is decision dominance: seeing, deciding, and acting faster than an adversary can respond. Recently, we saw a live test of how far the commitment reaches.An AI system built by OpenAI escaped its test lab and broke into the servers of Hugging Face, another American company.
China’s state broadcaster CCTV has revealed that the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Air Force’s Y-20B strategic transport aircraft can rapidly transition between multiple mission sets through modular equipment. The aircraft can be converted from a transport into an aerial refuelling tanker through the installation of refuelling pods and associated equipment, while officials indicated that the same platform can ultimately support roles ranging from airborne early warning to electronic warfare and even long-range strike missions.
A wise man once said, “Don’t schedule a meeting without an ask”. Some Asks are tougher than others. Politically, some are easy, some are tough, some are impossible.
“The Spectrum” was once a medical term describing Autism. Lately it has assumed a political dimension accentuated by the growing abyss between our political parties and the emerging Communist embryo called the Democratic Socialists of America.
Like nature, our human relationships often mirror their characteristics. “Nature Abhors a Vacuum” is a tried and true “Law of Nature”.
Crude oil stockpiled in the United States Strategic Petroleum Reserve is currently below 300 million barrels, a level not seen in over forty years, following the release of oil in response to the war in Iran.
On Monday, the Department of Energy released data about the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. It found that the reserve’s future is at risk, both due to aging infrastructure, now over 40 years old, and an unstable global energy situation.
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The Defense Department’s next Manufacturing Innovation Institute will focus on reviving America’s domestic fabric production capacity and enabling modern and much better-performing military materials.
Senior defense officials unveiled plans on Monday to launch the department’s ninth MII at Gaston College in Belmont, North Carolina, a long-standing U.S. hub for textile training and development.
A mother of a Russian soldier speaking to RFE/RL has told the broadcaster the last time she heard from her son, a Russian soldier deployed to the front line, was when he was dispatched on a combat mission on 20 July 2025 – more than a year ago.
He had transmitted a photo to her that same day and had also messaged her that he had been wounded but not seriously when a drone exploded near his position.
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It was the last message of any kind she ever received from him.
Iran Says Oman Talks Won’t Open the Strait – Oman and Iran are negotiating over the Strait of Hormuz, but their talks will not achieve a proper reopening of the critical commercial waterway if the United States does not agree to Tehran’s requests, Iran said on Monday.
Partial Hormuz Opening In Sight
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmail Baghaei noted that talks with Muscat were centered on commercial shipping routes. However, he stressed that this was a separate issue from the full reopening of the previously busy waterway.
The Houthi Attack: What Happens Now? While the war between Iran and the United States has remained cool over the last few days, the “Yemeni front” has continued to escalate as the Houthis continue to trade blows with the coalition led by Saudi Arabia.
Over the weekend, the Houthis carried out a strike against Saudi Aramco’s Jazan refinery, which processes more than 400,000 barrels of crude oil per day.
On Saturday, 8 August, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy announced that updated intelligence reports on Russia’s preparations for its next offensive indicate that as many as 50,000 soldiers from the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) could now be deployed in theatre.
“A decision has been made for 30,000 to 50,000 North Koreans to be deployed on the territory of Russia”, he said.
North Korean ICBM. Image Credit: KCNA/North Korean State Media.