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The US and China are dangerously close to a military confrontation in the...
Even as additional sailors assigned to the COVID-stricken USS Theodore Roosevelt display symptoms of the coronavirus — including several personnel who had been quarantined in Guam and allowed back on...
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The new Cold War with China
America’s pundits and politicians have largely concluded that a new Cold War with China -- a period of intense hostility and competition falling just short of armed combat -- has started. “Rift...
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Military leaders promise to address racism in the ranks: We must hold them to it
“Racism is an enemy. … It is an enemy of our Service; it is an enemy of our readiness; it is an enemy of our core values” said General John W. Raymond and Chief Master Sergeant Roger A. Towberman of...
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Congress wants more unnecessary anti-China weapons programs in annual defense...
“Emergency Funding to Thwart Chinese Communist Party Military Aspirations and Protect the United States Defense Industrial Base.” That is the ungainly title of a measure introduced by Sen. Tom Cotton...
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The Pentagon's AI 'ghost fleet' is more than just scary — it's unwise
In an October address at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, Secretary of Defense Mark Esper unveiled the Pentagon’s plan for the future Navy, saying it would consist of over 500...
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We won't miss Trump's two-faced military policy
In the military realm, Donald Trump will most likely be remembered for his insistence on ending America’s involvement in its twenty-first-century “forever wars” -- the fruitless, relentless,...
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Biden, climate change, and China
Slowing the pace of climate change and getting “tough” on China, especially over its human-rights abuses and unfair trade practices, are among the top priorities President Biden has announced for his...
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Could the US and China stumble into war?
The leaders of China and the United States certainly don’t seek a war with each another. Both the Biden administration and the regime of Chinese President Xi Jinping view economic renewal and growth...
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The post-petroleum resource race and what to make of it
Thanks to its very name — renewable energy — we can picture a time in the not-too-distant future when our need for non-renewable fuels like oil, natural gas, and coal will vanish. Indeed, the Biden...
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Is a cold war still possible in an overheating world?
In recent months, Washington has had a lot to say about China’s ever-expanding air, naval, and missile power. But when Pentagon officials address the topic, they generally speak less about that...
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How to save the world (from a climate Armageddon)
This summer we witnessed, with brutal clarity, the Beginning of the End: the end of Earth as we know it — a world of lush forests, bountiful croplands, livable cities, and survivable coastlines. In...
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The world's other nuclear flashpoint
Thanks to Vladimir Putin’s recent implicit threat to employ nuclear weapons if the U.S. and its NATO allies continue to arm Ukraine — “This is not a bluff,” he insisted on September 21st — the perils...
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What if the US and China really cooperated on climate change?
As President Biden and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping arrived on the resort island of Bali, Indonesia, for their November 14th “summit,” relations between their two countries were on a...
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Goodbye to the American Century, welcome to the 'G-3'
Not so long ago, political analysts were speaking of the “G-2” — that is, of a potential working alliance between the United States and China aimed at managing global problems for their mutual...
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Imagine killer AI robots in Gaza, in the Donbas
Yes, it’s already time to be worried — very worried. As the wars in Ukraine and Gaza have shown, the earliest drone equivalents of “killer robots” have made it onto the battlefield and proved to be...
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