Last year, a statement from former White House AI advisor David Sacks stopped Washington cold. “We now have a Chinese open-weight model that is as good as the currently available models from OpenAI and Anthropic,” Sacks told a podcast audience, describing Z.ai’s GLM-5.2 as comparable to Anthropic’s Opus and levelContinue Reading
Pending the failed cease-fire and Memorandum of Understanding [MOU] between Iran and America, all eyes have focused on the ongoing, difficult negotiations – mediated by Pakistan, Oman, Turkey, Qatar, and Egypt – between America and Iran. The late Uri Lubrani, Israel’s last Ambassador to Iran in 1978, always warned aboutContinue Reading
Recent discussion of artificial intelligence in intelligence analysis has consistently framed the technology as a means of accelerating an existing process. The intelligence cycle (collection, processing, analysis, production, dissemination) remains the implicit organizing schema, with AI cast as something used to drive its stages faster, increase resource efficiency, or widenContinue Reading
The late-June 2026 death of Sergei B. Ivanov – the man once thought the most likely successor to Vladimir Putin – as well as the Russian President’s age, his rumored health problems, and the discontent over the economic impact of his disastrous invasion of Ukraine; have renewed speculation over when,Continue Reading
With tensions rising all week, the U.S. has launched a new round of strikes against Iranian military targets and maritime assets. The strikes follow an announcement made by President Traitor 47 just hours earlier, declaring the ceasefire agreement with Tehran as ‘over’. The fresh wave of strikes signals a U.S.Continue Reading
In recent days, an unusual consensus has begun to emerge among some of Bolivia’s most prominent public intellectuals, economists, diplomats, and former political leaders. Former Foreign Minister Jaime Aparicio has warned that Bolivia has moved from “the theater of the absurd” to “the dialogue of the absurd,” suggesting that theContinue Reading
Your phone buzzes with a text from your bank: “Did you authorize a $2,400 transfer? Reply NO to stop it.” You reply, and seconds later a calm “fraud agent” calls, knows your name and the last four digits of your card, and walks you through “securing” your money by movingContinue Reading
Author’s Note: This article is not about ‘endless wars’ as a critique of U.S. military interventions — that debate belongs elsewhere. It examines a distinct and increasingly visible pattern: how U.S. adversaries wage continuous, long-term conflict against the United States across peace and war, both below and above the thresholdContinue Reading
Russian President Vladimir Putin can no longer conceal the cost of his Ukraine war from the Russian public. There are fuel shortages throughout the Russian Federation. Videos show hundreds of automobiles lining up to get a few liters of gasoline at gas stations around Moscow. Gasoline sales to civilian vehiclesContinue Reading
Generative AI should be managed like a human source: useful, fast, sometimes brilliant, sometimes wrong, and never a substitute for disciplined questioning and human judgment. The three of us spent our careers in an environment where bad information costs lives. We learned early that the most dangerous source isn’t someoneContinue Reading
“We [the Joint Chiefs of Staff] often times in the national security decision-making process or White House meetings — outside of the Pentagon process — will go back and forth between military issues and political issues. And I think it’s incumbent upon us to kind of stay in, you know,Continue Reading
Colombia stands at a crossroads because of the narrow victory of right‑wing outsider Abelardo de la Espriella over leftist Senator Iván Cepeda. On August 7, 2026, Colombia will close the country’s first experiment with a left‑wing presidency while leaving its worsening social, economic, and security dilemmas unresolved. The choice betweenContinue Reading
We are good at winning wars and generally bad at what comes after. Far from a partisan observation; this is a pattern with receipts. We removed Saddam Hussein in three weeks and then spent eight years discovering that we had no plan for Iraq. We helped topple Qaddafi in 2011Continue Reading