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Is China a Peaked Power? And So What If It Is?

by Russell D. Howard
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07.24.2026 at 10:03am

Tags: Active Infiltration, Civilian Interventions, Coercive Signaling, Compound Security Threat (CST), Denial of Prosperity Operations, Gray Zone Warfare, multi-domain, narrative warfare, Peak China, Proxy and Surrogate Disruption, Thucydides Trap

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One Operator Cannot Resist the Surveillance Economy: UTS and the Human Domain in Irregular Warfare

by Christopher Moede
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07.24.2026 at 06:00am

Tags: digital technology, force protection, irregular warfare, operator, Signature Reduction

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Addressing and Amending “Attritability” of Unmanned Vehicular Systems: Why Cost as a Strategy Undermines National Power

by James Giordano, by John Bitterman
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07.24.2026 at 06:00am

Tags: AI, AI systems, attrition, Attrition Warfare, Cognitive, cost effectiveness, Costs of War, Defense Spending, drone, Drone strikes, FPV drones, LUCAS, Pentagon budget

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Algorithmic Giants, Ethical Infants: How Autonomous Mass Is Breaking the Clausewitzian Contract

by Bradley H. Craycraft
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07.24.2026 at 06:00am

Tags: Algorithmic Warfare, Artificial Intelligence (AI), autonomous weapons, Clausewitz, Democracy, drones, military ethics, military innovation

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Gas from Above: How UAVs Are Bringing Chemical Warfare Back to the Battlefield in Ukraine

by Patrick Senft
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07.23.2026 at 06:00am

Tags: Chemical Weapons, Chemical Weapons Convention, Russia-Ukraine, Russia-Ukraine War, UAV

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The Strategic Messages of Operation Epic Fury

by Tim Manton
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07.23.2026 at 06:00am

Tags: China-Taiwan, Operation Epic Fury, strategic messages

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Is China a Peaked Power? And So What If It Is?

by Russell D. Howard

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07.24.2026 at 10:03am

The five ubiquitous technical surveillance domains.

One Operator Cannot Resist the Surveillance Economy: UTS and the Human Domain in Irregular Warfare

by Christopher Moede

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07.24.2026 at 06:00am

Addressing and Amending “Attritability” of Unmanned Vehicular Systems: Why Cost as a Strategy Undermines National Power

by James Giordano, by John Bitterman

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07.24.2026 at 06:00am

Algorithmic Giants, Ethical Infants: How Autonomous Mass Is Breaking the Clausewitzian Contract

by Bradley H. Craycraft

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07.24.2026 at 06:00am

Gas from Above: How UAVs Are Bringing Chemical Warfare Back to the Battlefield in Ukraine

by Patrick Senft

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07.23.2026 at 06:00am

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