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China, Russia, Iran and North Korea Aren't an Alliance—Yet #China #Russia #Missiles

The Cheap weapons changing war

State media as a arm of the military machine

Battlefield Data & Military AI

The scenario that gives the bloc framing its urgency is coordinated simultaneous aggression in…

Here is why none of the above should be read as reassurance.

The most important asymmetry is that the largest participant behaves least like a member of…

The material reality of this relationship is in what physically crosses borders, and the flows are…

Four states are routinely grouped as an emerging bloc.

This distinction deserves its own chapter, because conflating the two produces most of the…

The most economically interesting counter to machine recognition is also the oldest, and it works…

Every impressive civilian image model was trained on billions of pictures taken from the internet.

This brings us to the single most important discipline in reading any of this, and the one most…

The mistake most people make is treating a state-media military narrative as if it has one meaning.

The most striking single example of the inversion is naval, and it involves a country that lost…

If you want to see the arithmetic without a laboratory, look at the Red Sea.

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