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Drone warfare in the nuclear age: Here's my picture of what a robot-infested battlefield might look like: Swarms vs. Swarms tomdispatch.com/swarms-vs-swar…

Swarms vs. Swarms - my piece on AI-enabled drone swarms now up at TheNation.com as: "The Race to Amass the Most Drones Will Only Bring Us Closer to Nuclear War" thenation.com/article/world/…

Biden’s “Rule-Based International Order” Is Broken, as I argue in the Nation: thenation.com/article/world/…

Please view my article on the dangers of AI weaponization: The Pentagon’s Rush to Deploy AI-Enabled Weapons Is Going to Kill Us All thenation.com/article/world/…

Xi and Biden stepped back from the precipice at their San Francisco meeting, but the risks of a drastic U.S.-China collision have hardly disappeared. See my analysis here: The U.S. and China at Year’s End tomdispatch.com/the-u-s-and-ch…

As I see it, the drop in tensions achieved by Presidents Biden and Xi at their Nov. 15 summit could prove short-lived, given the pressures on them to act tough on Taiwan and the South China Sea. See my take at: Will the New Year Bring a War With China? thenation.com/article/world/…

A great expose of the growing intersection of finance capital, Silicon Valley defense startups, and military-political officialdom: The Pentagon Road to Venture Capital nytimes.com/2023/12/30/us/…

Eeek! Here's what I've learned about the Pentagon's plans to deploy swarms of autonomous combat robots able to communicate with one another and choose their own battle tactics - perhaps setting off unpredictable and escalatory clashes: tomdispatch.com/emergent-ai-be…

It looks like a war in the Arctic is on the agenda, along with everything else! 8,000+ soldiers tested in large-scale combat in the Arctic armytimes.com/news/your-army…

Get a glimpse of the Pentagon's plans for a war with China from my visit to Project Convergence 2024: Meet the New Military-Industrial Complex thenation.com/article/world/…

For a sane, thoughtful analysis of the student protests at Columbia U and the administration's ham-fisted response, see Helene Benedict's The Distortion of Campus Protests over Gaza tomdispatch.com/the-distortion…

The Anglo-Saxonization of US Foreign Policy = How I view Washington's response to its declining worldwide influence: Trusting the “Five Eyes” Only tomdispatch.com/trusting-the-f…

Trump, the Military, and the Insurrection Act: Will Troops Be Occupying Our Cities? - If Trump wins, I argue, his first step will be to invoke the Insurrection Act and empower US troops to crush popular uprisings with lethal force thenation.com/article/politi…

Our military needs to make climate change the nation's top national security threat as the country - and the military itself - suffers from the severe effects of climate change: MacDill AFB evacuates planes and people as Hurricane Milton approaches defensenews.com/air/2024/10/07…

From now on, climate change, not overblown foreign threats, will pose the greatest threat to US national security: 500 more active-duty troops to aid Hurricane Helene relief efforts militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-…

The murderous lengths to which Putin is willing to go in his insane drive to annex eastern Ukraine: Russia casualties reach 600,000 during war in Ukraine, Pentagon says defensenews.com/pentagon/2024/…

Excellent commentary by Anatol Lieven of the Quincy Institute on the multiple failures of the Biden administration in managing US foreign policy: responsiblestatecraft.org/blinken-defend…

It will be very interesting to see if Pentagon hawks put up any resistance to Hegseth as Secy of Defense, given his inexperience in military affairs! Trump’s defense choice, a Fox News host, stuns the Pentagon defensenews.com/pentagon/2024/…

As I see it, Hurricane Helene was just a foretaste of what is to come as global warming accelerates: Climate Change Is the Real National Security Threat thenation.com/article/enviro…

Trump’s anti-DEI efforts damage national security, former officials say defenseone.com/policy/2025/02… via Defense One