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On Wednesday, Russia hit a border crossing near Ukraine’s border with Moldova. Also, in the last few days, Ukrainian drones have plunged into a gas-producing region 1,800 miles into Russia.

Two Civilians Killed in Odesa

A High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) with the 1st Battalion, 181st Field Artillery Regiment fires toward a designated target at Yausubetsu Training Area, Hokkaido, Japan on Sept. 20, 2023. U.S. Army soldiers and Japan Ground Self-Defense Force (JGSDF) members participated in showcasing their artillery prowess in front of VIPs and dignitaries. (Photo by U.S.

Oil prices rocketed above $100 per barrel on Wednesday, September 9, as fighting in the Middle East escalated.

Shipping through the Strait of Hormuz was disrupted again, but so were some alternative routes and infrastructure that have helped keep oil moving over the last six months of conflict.

Aircraft Carrier. Image Credit: Creative Commons.

Brent crude surpassed $101 during trading on Wednesday, building on a rally that has increased the international benchmark by around 25% since August.

This time, the increase was caused by U.S.

New insight into the design concepts influencing the Shenyang Aircraft Corporation’s sixth generation stealth fighter has been provided in a recently published paper by researchers from the Shenyang Aircraft Design & Research Institute. The institute is associated with development of the second of China’s two known sixth generation fighter types, referred to by netizens as the ‘J-50,’ which was first seen in flight testing in December 2024 alongside the much larger sixth generation fighter developed by the Chengdu Aircraft Corporation.

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Smart red blood cells use gene-editing techniques to detect physical exertion and respond by producing proteins that improve oxygen delivery to tissues

Allyson Park, NatDefense
As autonomous systems continue to define modern warfare, the United States is locked in a race for drone dominance, but the real competition is the speed of…

Trimble, Aviation Week
AI-enabled air combat is close to operational reality

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John Croxton, Defense One
Maven Smart System (MSS) has replaced “six, eight, ten” systems that the military used to analyze data, AI chief says

If there is a revolution brewing in the automation of white-collar work, you wouldn’t know it at the Pentagon. Here, the typical action officers, staff who tackle the daily work of the bureaucracy, perform essentially the same duties as their predecessors in 1996 or 1956: creating charts, authoring papers, delivering briefings, and coordinating across offices. Given the promise of AI tools, allowing this staff ecosystem to remain stuck in the past represents a dangerous failure to adapt, especially as senior leaders criticize the workforce for lacking organizational speed.

For eight years I helped decide whether American counter-terrorism money was working.As a programs advisor in the State Department’s Bureau of Counterterrorism from 2018 to 2025, I oversaw about 20 projects in East Africa worth roughly $80 million a year. None of that money moved without a performance monitoring plan. We established baselines before work started and agreed on indicators in advance. When a project underperformed, or the reporting came late, we withheld funding. Reporting tracked activities against those metrics across the life of the program.