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New technologies such as drones have remade the battlefield as has been show in the Ukrainian conflict with deadly effect.
However, a new terrifying dawn is coming to warfare – the robots.
Recent People’s Liberation Army (PLA) urban warfare drills suggest that unmanned platforms armed solely with light weapons may struggle to root out enemies shielded in buildings or underground bunkers, wrote the South China Morning Post.

The soldiers who run the daily garrison details of nearly every Army base are swapping shoulder patches this week.
In a series of “patching ceremonies,” garrison headquarters units at a wide range of Army bases are swapping out their Army Materiel Command shoulder patches for those of their largest on-base unit.
Soldiers are making the patch swaps at giant bases like Fort Bragg, North Carolina, and Fort Bliss, Texas, and at relatively small garrisons like Wiesbaden, Germany, and Picatinny Arsenal, New Jersey.

Christopher F. Rufo & Hannah Grossman, City Journal
Intelligence officials maintained a chatroom to discuss polyamory and transgender surgeries, internal documents reveal.

R. Jordan Prescott, RealClearDefense
The Department of Defense has failed seven consecutive audits, its financial information systems are a disaster, and solutions have been elusive.

How should the United States address the multiple cyber “typhoons” emanating from China? Over the past year, Chinese cyber threat actors have gained access to important U.S. networks. The most high-profile of these are Volt Typhoon, which burrowed into U.S. critical infrastructure, potentially to preposition cyber assets in the event of a crisis or conflict with the United States, and Salt Typhoon, which penetrated multiple telecommunications networks to spy on Americans. There are two fundamental problems with the current state of the policy debate.

Time is our most precious resource, and yet, we squander it daily. This is not just about efficiency or a better return on taxpayer dollars — it’s about our humanity. How we value and leverage time reflects how we prioritize ourselves as a society or organization. The cost of wasted time is one we can no longer afford. We live in an age defined by the exponential acceleration of knowledge and demands on our time. In 2020, 64.2 zettabytes of data were generated globally. That figure is expected to more than double within four years.