A new analysis from the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) has concluded that the United States should consider options for military strikes against Chinese artificial intelligence infrastructure to prevent the East Asian country from achieving primacy in developing artificial general intelligence (AGI). Jacob Stokes, a former Obama administration national security staffer and senior fellow and deputy director of the CNAS Indo-Pacific Security Program, made the remarks on September 3. He argued that U.S.

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On Aug. 25, at the People’s Palace in Damascus, Mazloum Abdi announced the dissolution of the Syrian Democratic Forces, which he had commanded for a decade. Speaking first in Arabic and then in Kurdish, he said the force had joined the Syrian army and would no longer operate independently. 15 days earlier, Turkey’s parliament had passed a framework law for the disarmament of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party.

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South Korea has continued to cement its position as the leading supplier of artillery and rocket artillery systems to European armed forces, with Croatia now preparing to become the latest customer after having approved the purchase 18 K239 Chunmoo multiple rocket launchers. The deal valued at €435.2 million ($506 million) is one of the largest signed in the Eastern European state’s history, and will replace its Cold War era Grad and Vulkan launchers.

New footage from China’s Xinjiang province has shown an intercontinental range flying wing stealth aircraft in flight, which has been widely speculated to be a prototype unmanned bomber intended to transform the country’s airborne strike capabilities. The images confirm prior assessments that the aircraft has a very substantial internal volume, allowing for a sizeable internal weapons load and fuel capacity.

The U.S. Treasury Secretary claims Iran’s economy could buckle “within weeks or months,” as Washington ramps up sanctions.

Bessent said the U.S. wants the regime to “come to its senses,” speaking to reporters at Monday’s G20 finance ministers’ meeting in North Carolina. Separately, he told CNBC that they needed to create conditions in which Tehran will “want to come to the table.”

Bessent Speaks With Russian Counterpart
Bessent also spoke privately with Russian finance minister Anton Siluanov, reportedly telling him: “Nothing is possible until the war is over.

The U.S. involvement in Iran is a military engagement with no clear end and no clear path to victory, while presenting growing political problems for the president who initiated it.

But no, it is not the same thing as the Vietnam War.

Bombs Inside the B-52 Bomber. Photo taken by Harry J. Kazianis/National Security Journal.

B-52D Bomber at USAF Museum. Image Credit: National Security Journal.

B-52 Bomber Bombs. Image Credit: National Security Journal.

Iran’s motorists are facing hours-long lines at gasoline stations as war with the U.S. continues to imperil its economy.

Deutsche Welle reported that motorists were spotted sleeping in cars overnight to buy fuel the next morning.

Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS George Washington (CVN 73). Creative Commons Image.

Some stations were even forced to close after running out of fuel.

“I’m in the gasoline line right now. It took about 45 minutes just to get this far,” a resident of Karaj, west of Tehran, told DW. “Yesterday I went to several stations.

The Iran War: On Pause? Over? Or Ending Soon? The Middle East spent Thursday, September 3, waiting to see whether the sudden return of heavy exchanges of fire would see the United States escalate further and initiate another sustained bombing campaign.

It followed another wave of missiles and drones launched by Iran overnight against American military positions in the Gulf, and threats that more sites would be targeted in the near future.

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Trump Administration Believes Iran Could Collapse From Within – The Trump administration reportedly expects that the economic pressure inflicted on Iran could be sufficient to cause the collapse of the Islamic regime, even as President Donald Trump explores the possibility of declaring the war over and withdrawing some U.S. military presence from the region.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent argued this week that mounting economic pressure could ultimately cause Iran’s security establishment to fracture or even trigger a popular uprising.

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The Pentagon has moved decades of secret military planning documents off of the SIPRNet, the Secret Internet Protocol Router Network, that supports the US defense community, in a bid to control the flow of information and stifle leaks as the Trump administration launches an unprecedented crackdown on unauthorised disclosures to the press.

The Defense Department on Thursday launched a new initiative aimed at helping small businesses and other innovators gain access to facilities where they can do classified work.
Officials involved in the pursuit, dubbed “Secure Space Network,” plan to design and produce about 50 mobile Sensitive Compartmented Information Facilities and “related information systems” that could be rapidly deployed to military installations, industry-related sites and other locations across the nation where they’re needed, according to a press release.

A bipartisan group of lawmakers expressed “deep concerns” this week about the Army’s decision to order a Europe-based infantry battalion to halt its drone innovation mission, pressing the service’s top leaders to explain their rationale as unmanned systems continue to fundamentally change modern conflict.
In November, the Army tasked the 600-soldier Unmanned Assault Battalion, part of the 173rd Mobile Brigade Combat Team, to function as a dedicated drone formation, according to a service official, part of an experimental unit concept informed by lessons from the Ukrainian military.

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Six months after President Donald Trump launched a war he hoped would be over within “four to five weeks,” Washington is scrambling for ways to stop fighting Iran without conceding that the conflict ended without achieving the objectives laid out by the president when he addressed the American people and announced the war.

Trump has major political and economic incentives to find an off-ramp now, and they are becoming harder to ignore by the day.

Donald Trump at Turning Points USA. Image by Gage Skidmore.

Trump Doing the Trump Dance. White House Image.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin says there is a chance of ending the war in Ukraine, despite continuing to ramp up attacks.

Addressing the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok on Thursday, Putin said the United States, China, and others were now open to supporting a deal.

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Putin and Russian Military Creative Commons Image

However, he stressed that the decision ultimately rested with Moscow and Kyiv.

“Is there a chance? In my view, yes, there is,” Putin said.

Acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao told a gathering of officers and senior enlisted Marines in North Carolina that they need to do more as front-line leaders to address the rate of suicides. The comments came during Cao’s first public appearance after being formally nominated as Navy secretary Tuesday, a role he has held in an acting role since April.
Cao traveled to Camp Lejeune Wednesday with Marine Corps Commandant Gen. Eric Smith and other senior Marine leaders. The group spent close to two hours in two town halls focused on suicide prevention and mental health.

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said flights to Russian airports are being suspended after he warned about Russia’s airspace on Tuesday, 1st September.

In his nightly address earlier this week, Zelensky claimed that Russia’s airspace is “completely dangerous” amid ongoing drone attacks by Kyiv.

Putin in May 2025 Looking Grim. Image Credit: Kremlin.

Ukraine has focused heavily on targeting critical infrastructure in recent months, with the Russian Defense Ministry claiming to have intercepted more than 400 drones on Wednesday night alone.

Russia says hundreds of Ukrainian drones flew toward the Moscow region in little more than a day, in one of the largest such operations reported around the capital since the war began.

Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said 548 unmanned aerial vehicles flew toward the wider Moscow region between 8 a.m. on September 2 and noon on September 3.

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Putin Speaking in July 2026 Creative Commons Photo

“The majority were destroyed at distant frontiers,” Sobyanin wrote on Russia’s Max messaging service, according to TASS.

Iran’s President Admits U.S. Pressure Is Working – Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has spent weeks hinting that Iran may be on the brink of economic problems that could warrant a return to negotiations with the United States, and in recent remarks, he went even further, warning that Iran is feeling the impact of American pressure. And that might just mean the war in the Middle East could soon really be over.

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Ukraine Attacks Across Russia as Drone Strategy Amplifies – Russia has said that it intercepted more than 400 drones following a major Ukrainian drone assault overnight.

Ukrainian drone attacks reportedly targeted military airbases and port cities in the early hours of Thursday, 3rd September.

Lancet Drone. Image Credit: Russian State Media.

Lancet Drone from Russia. Image Credit: Creative Commons.

It marks the latest escalation in Kyiv’s drone campaign targeting critical infrastructure across Russia.

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Iran launched another round of missile and drone attacks against American military facilities across the Gulf overnight into Thursday, September 3, continuing the sudden return of fighting that ended a month-long period of relative peace.

The strikes targeted American bases and U.S.-linked infrastructure and facilities.

The overnight attack also targeted commercial shipping infrastructure.

PACIFIC OCEAN (April 27, 2026) U.S. Navy Arleigh Burke-Class guided-missile destroyer USS John Paul Jones (DDG) 53, fires its Mk.45 5-inch deck cannon during a live fire exercise, April 27, 2026.

Middle East Condemns Iran After Drones Strike Kuwait – Tensions in the Middle East continue to escalate after Iran launched retaliatory attacks on Kuwait overnight.

Strikes have resumed across the region in the past week after a month-long lull in fighting.

Vice President JD Vance attends a bilateral meeting with President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Monday, April 7, 2025, in the Oval Office. (Official White House Photo by Emily J.

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Persistent attacks in the Black Sea are causing a worldwide rise in wheat prices as importers desperately seek alternative solutions during Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Both Russia and Ukraine have intensified attacks on each other’s Black Sea ports, grain terminals and commercial vessels in recent weeks, causing widespread disruption across the world.

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Wheat prices have risen to their highest level for three years as a result of the ongoing disruption.

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President Donald Trump, in his second term, has enjoyed renaming things, including bodies of water. He renamed the Gulf of Mexico the “Gulf of America” and Lake Ontario the “Lake of America,” as part of the recent trade war with Canada. Trump has even succeeded in getting Google and Apple to change the names of those bodies of water on their map software.

Trump’s hand-picked board tried to put his name on the Kennedy Center, although courts have put the kibosh on that. Even the airport in Palm Beach, near Mar-a-Lago, has been renamed President Donald J.

A U.S. missile strike near the Strait of Hormuz earlier this week struck a wedding party, and, according to Iranian state media, four people were killed, including two women and two children, with more than 60 people wounded.

According to the Associated Press, the wedding celebration in the town of Kuhestak, in the country of Sirik, was for the marriage of a fisherman’s daughter.

(Dec. 01, 2020) – The guided-missile destroyer USS Chafee (DDG 90) launches a Block V Tomahawk, the weapon’s newest variant, during a missile exercise.

The US Army has placed a $65m delivery order with Anduril Industries to supply hardware and mission shelters for its TITAN programme.

On April 4, 2003, in the middle of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, then-Maj. Gen. James Mattis entered the command post of Marine Corps Col. Joe Dowdy and delivered news that would effectively end a nearly 24-year military career. Mattis told Dowdy he was being relieved of command, then asked him to empty his sidearm and hand over the ammunition.
“He thought I was going to try to kill myself,” Dowdy later told the Wall Street Journal.

On the morning of April 22, 2026, Blackhawk Company, 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment, began a 10-day collective training event at the Joint Multinational Readiness Center in Hohenfels, Germany.
As Blackhawk Company rolled through the Bavarian countryside in a column of Bradley Fighting Vehicles, we didn’t realize our exercise would soon make national news in a Wall Street Journal article headlined “U.S. and Ukrainian Forces Went Head-to-Head in an Exercise. Ukraine’s Drones Won.

The Political Considerations of the Iran War – As the Iran War has stopped and started in recent months, some political questions have sort of existed in the background: If this war is continuing, and it remains historically unpopular, what will that mean for President Donald Trump’s party in the midterm elections? And will members of the president’s party need to answer for his support of the war?

Reuters looked at those considerations in a report published Thursday.

OVER NEVADA — A B-1B Lancer from the 37th Bomb Squadron, Ellsworth Air Force Base, S.D., streaks through the sky.

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WARSAW, POLAND – In times of war, rival government agencies and organizations will normally try to paper over their differences – if not put them aside altogether – for the sake of the common good.

That kind of “we are all in this together” sentiment, as apparent, does not operate within the Ukrainian intelligence services.

Zelensky Speaking in UK Ukraine Government Photo

On Wednesday morning, 2 September, a shootout between Ukraine’s two main intelligence services took place in broad daylight on the streets of Kyiv.

According to an intensive investigation by the London-based Financial Times, Russia has been engaged in a multi-year classified program to covertly assist Iran in developing advanced supersonic cruise missiles.

This is another, but ominous, development in Russia’s continuing cooperation with Iran in weapons development – a partnership that has become a standard feature of Moscow’s war in Ukraine.

Iran’s Drones That Russia Is Using. Image Credit: Creative Commons.

The Canadian military will benefit from a partnership between two Quebec technology suppliers aiming to deliver a unified TACCOM capability.

Ford joins a host of automotive providers in pitching commercial vehicles adapted for military users, as the UK replaces its Land Rover fleet.

During a USO tour of Italy in 1944, actress Marlene Dietrich was not feeling well.
Dietrich was battling pneumonia, but no matter how ill she felt, she desperately wanted to be around the soldiers. Speaking to the Fifth Army, Dietrich expressed her admiration for the troops fighting fascism during World War II. Then, definitely knowing her audience, she concluded her remarks with a prediction.

I am a member of Generation X. In grade school, middle school, and high school I wrote paper after paper on Pearl Harbor, D-Day, the Battle of the Bulge, and the reasons we fought World War II. We studied what Newt Gingrich was doing, what Oliver North had done, and the status of the Cold War as it was ending. Those assignments were not optional coloring-book exercises. They were the civic equivalent of learning to swim: you were expected to know why the water was dangerous.

To this day I remember why we fought. World War II was not an abstraction about “conflict.

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U.S. Naval Forces Central Command / Fifth Fleet headquarters, Manama, Bahrain. Photo: U.S. Navy / Wikimedia Commons (Public Domain)
Iran launched coordinated attacks of missiles and drones on the American military stationed in Kuwait and Bahrain on Wednesday night. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) announced attacks on Ali Al Salem Air Base in Kuwait as well as the headquarters of the U.S. Navy Fifth Fleet in Manama, Bahrain, according to reports from the Iranian state media and regional sources.

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The Army today announced it has awarded AeroVironment (AV) a contract for the Enduring-High Energy Laser (E-HEL) program of record