Trump’s anti-DEI efforts damage national security, former officials say via @DefenseOne

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

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

Excellent commentary by Anatol Lieven of the Quincy Institute on the multiple failures of the Biden administration in managing US foreign policy:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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:

A great expose of the growing intersection of finance capital, Silicon Valley defense startups, and military-political officialdom: The Pentagon Road to Venture Capital

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?

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

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

Biden’s “Rule-Based International Order” Is Broken, as I argue in the Nation:

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

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