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Ukraine Has Placed Crimea Under Siege
How Ukrainian mid-range drone warfare is strangling Crimea's supply lines, creating a resource trap that threatens to make Russia's prized peninsula ungovernable.
Bolivia is F**ked
From fuel subsidy cuts to land reform protests, Bolivia has descended into chaos under President Rodrigo Paz. With seven dead, 67 roadblocks, and calls for resignation, is the Andean nation beyond saving?
Has Netanyahu gone too far in Lebanon?
Donald Trump reportedly called Benjamin Netanyahu "f*cking crazy" in a heated phone call demanding a Lebanon ceasefire, as Israeli forces pushed north of the Litani River for the first time since 2000.
America Isn't Ready for the Drone Warfare Era
Advanced militaries from Israel to the Gulf are burning through interceptors against cheap drones while Ukraine quietly becomes the world's counter-drone superpower.
America's New Approach to Air Supremacy: The USAF's Networked Bet
How the US Air Force is trading stealth-above-all for a networked force of data hubs, missile trucks, and modular fighters built for great-power war.
Attack of the Drones: How UAVs Are Reshaping Warfare
How cheap consumer quadcopters, Bayraktar and Shahed military drones, naval suicide boats, and unmanned ground vehicles are remaking the modern battlefield.
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