It seems natural to assume that relentless pressure will force authoritarian leaders to yield, yet the opposite is often true. When survival is at stake, backing down can be more dangerous than standing firm. This counterintuitive logic has played out repeatedly in the Persian Gulf. Iraqi President Saddam Hussein refused to leave Kuwait in 1991 to avoid humiliation, defections and the threat of a coup. Today, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei faces a similar trap, as giving in to U.S. pressure could weaken his hold at home.
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Chairman of the ruling Korean Workers’ Party Kim Jong Un has outlined plans for a major buildup of North Korean nuclear forces over the coming years five, as the country’s recent economic boom has fuelled speculation that financing for increases to defence spending has likely become much more readily available. The strategy has focused on strengthening and expanding the nuclear arsenal, operationalising new means of nuclear delivery, and embedding that arsenal into long-term defence policy.
The genocide in Ukraine continues, as 30,000 troops are dying monthly on the Ukrainian side alone. The war needs to end.
In the video below, Ukrainian ‘mobilization’ turns deadly as bounty hunters kidnap a man who dies on the ground as they suffocate him. Maybe, this is an easier death than being torn apart by a drone warhead days later.
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A private Chinese satellite firm has released satellite images of 11 F-22 Raptor fifth generation fighters at the Ovda Air Base in Israel. A total of 12 F-22s were photographed while transiting the United Kingdom, suggesting one may not have headed to Israel, or may have been in flight at the time the images were taken. Located in the very south of Israel in the southern Negev Desert, around 40 kilometres north of Eilat, the facility is most prominent for its former hosting of aggressor squadrons for training, and current hosting of Arrow anti-ballistic missile systems.
Even as modern conflicts show the vulnerabilities of traditional battlefield medical care, American medics are still relying on “analog, paper-based” triage systems to assess injured troops, according to the Defense Innovation Unit.
The DIU, along with military medical departments, is attempting to change that.
Hinting that the White House could soon issue an official directive to compel a new surge for disclosure, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the Pentagon is poised to deliver on President Donald Trump’s pledge to release U.S. government records about unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) and aliens.
“We’re going to be in full compliance with that executive order, [and we’re] eager to provide that for the president. So, there’ll be more coming on that, as far as the process of what we’ll do,” Hegseth said.
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The Trump administration is grappling with the launch of the National Background Investigation Services program — a much-delayed Pentagon IT modernization initiative spanning multiple administrations that aims to improve processes for vetting government workers and contractors — and hopes to bring it across the finish line by the end of fiscal 2028.
The Defense Department has been developing NBIS since 2016, when it took ownership of the program from the Office of Personnel Management.
The Pentagon has published criteria for barracks and other unaccompanied housing that require all the military services to meet the same standards for the first time, according to the Defense Department.
The policy makes clear “zero visible mold” is the standard for all unaccompanied housing, and it establishes minimum living space requirements for all junior service members.
In 2023, Jennifer Kavanaugh and Jordan Cohen wrote, “The True Military Assistance Tradeoff is Between Israel and Taiwan,” where they argued Washington should place clear boundaries on its military aid to Israel to preserve capabilities essential to deterring China in the Indo-Pacific. Three years later, amidst heightened tensions across multiple theaters, we asked Jennifer to revisit their arguments.