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All You Need Is a Looking Glass: The Road to AGI Goes Through Empathy dlvr.​it/TVjR8w
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The Longest March Is the Paperwork dlvr.​it/TVjQz0
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Why Vague AI Regulation Threatens Our Strategic Edge Against China dlvr.​it/TVjQrh
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Defense AI Needs To Do More Than Detect the Target dlvr.​it/TVjQTd
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Judges Are Not Given the Task of Running the Army dlvr.it/TVhXV4

Judges Are Not Given the Task of Running the Army - RealClearDefense

Beaudry Robert "Bowe" Bergdahl claimed he could not get a fair trial in the military courts. Nine military and civilian judges in the military...

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How To Keep AI From Making Humanity Extinct dlvr.it/TVhXNY

How To Keep AI From Making Humanity Extinct - RealClearDefense

Most of the debate over potentially catastrophic artificial intelligence is about one question: How do we stop dangerous AI from being released? We...

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Partnering With the Taliban dlvr.it/TVhXJr

Partnering With the Taliban - RealClearDefense

A Mutual Benefit AgreementThe United States and the Taliban signed the Doha Accord on 29 February 2020 to end the war that began after al-Qaeda,...

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Why the Pentagon’s Drone Revolution Could Run Out of Power dlvr.it/TVhXFy

Why the Pentagon's Drone Revolution Could Run Out of Power - RealClearDefense

The United States is making historic investments in autonomous platforms. But it is not sufficiently bolstering the battery supply chains they...

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America's Freedom to Slow AI Is Priced in Magnets dlvr.it/TVhX9X

America's Freedom to Slow AI Is Priced in Magnets - RealClearDefense

For a week in May 2025, Ford stopped building Explorers in Chicago because it could not get rare-earth magnets. China had restricted their export...

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Dispatch From New York: Latin America Has Opened a New Chapter With Washington dlvr.it/TVhFlf

Dispatch From New York: Latin America Has Opened a New Chapter With Washington - RealClearDefense

Bottom lines up front The U.S. is deepening its economic engagement across Latin America, including through new investment initiatives in critical...

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The FCC’s Spectrum Dilemma: When Space Launch Collides With Flight Test dlvr.it/TVhFkB

The FCC's Spectrum Dilemma: When Space Launch Collides With Flight Test - RealClearDefense

Accelerating space launch is a top national security priority. So is flight testing for the U.S. Air Force's new B-21 stealth bomber, the F-47...

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A Welcome Wildcat? Austal, AUKUS and an Ownership Mud Wrestle dlvr.it/TVhFh0

A Welcome Wildcat? Austal, AUKUS and an Ownership Mud Wrestle - RealClearDefense

Who owns and controls Western Australian shipbuilder Austal matters to Australian, American, Japanese and South Korean national security. And...

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The War of Endurance: Russia, Ukraine, and the Struggle Behind the Front Lines dlvr.it/TVhFdW

The War of Endurance: Russia, Ukraine, and the Struggle Behind the Front Lines - RealClearDefense

Bottom LineThe Russo-Ukrainian War has evolved into a total war, with both sides employing political, economic, and military means to erode the...

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Revolting for the CCP: Seizing Taiwan Could Drive Japan to Nuclear Weapons dlvr.it/TVgqN0

Revolting for the CCP: Seizing Taiwan Could Drive Japan to Nuclear Weapons - RealClearDefense

Potential Japanese acquisition of nuclear weapons is an under-appreciated deterrent to a Chinese attempt at seizing Taiwan.If China took Taiwan,...

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Implications of the Successful Russian Sarmat ICBM Test dlvr.it/TVgqGS

Implications of the Successful Russian Sarmat ICBM Test - RealClearDefense

Mark B. Schneider, Implications of the Successful Russian Sarmat ICBM Test, No. 670, September 24, 2026Download PDFImplications of the Successful...

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Claude for Clausewitz? dlvr.it/TVgq9d

Claude for Clausewitz? - RealClearDefense

Foreign policy analysts don't need a chatbot to write – but opportunities lie with stress-testing their arguments.Earlier this month, OpenAI caused...

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Beijing's Trojan Yacht dlvr.it/TVgq4j

Beijing's Trojan Yacht - RealClearDefense

The Trojans did not lose their city to a siege, they lost it to a gift they wheeled through their gates. Beijing understands this lesson better...

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Preventing Foreign Cultivation dlvr.it/TVgnGn

Preventing Foreign Cultivation - RealClearDefense

Nobody Had the Authority to Tell Him Who He Had InvitedThe United States has no mechanism to protect a president's family from foreign cultivation....

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Congress Ordered an Annual Accounting of Terrorism. The Counting Has Stopped. dlvr.it/TVglG6

Congress Ordered an Annual Accounting of Terrorism. The Counting Has Stopped. - RealClearDefense

On May 1, 2026, the State Department released the 2024 edition of the Country Reports on Terrorism — a full year past the deadline in effect when...

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To Build Golden Fleet Frigate Fast, Two Shipyards are Needed dlvr.it/TVgkZZ

To Build Golden Fleet Frigate Fast, Two Shipyards are Needed - RealClearDefense

In 1798, while at war with France, an exasperated British Lord Nelson exclaimed, "Were I to die at this moment, 'want of frigates!' would be...

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