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In Moscow, the FSB always knew where you were. The attaché job meant keeping a line of communication open with people who weren't always interested in talking. (Members Only)

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Some CIA officers who spent a decade hunting bin Laden went on to great second acts. Others couldn't move past it. Zero Dark Thirty's final scene gets at why. (Members Only)

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North Korea's navy has effectively been two separate navies, an east coast fleet and a west coast fleet with no way to reinforce each other. Could green water capability fix that? (Members Only)

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Few people in government and industry can work fluently across economics, security, finance, and technology. That shortage is becoming a national security problem. https://t.co/WmoZF623xj

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The separation of fronts at Camp David left grievances unresolved and a vacuum that Iran spent decades filling. https://t.co/zeRR55lFzA

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If autonomous weapons save enough lives, they might make war politically painless enough to wage more often. The Pope noticed this before most defense analysts did. (Members Only)

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A grid of nylon webbing, sewn across a new generation of packs and vests, gave Global War on Terror soldiers a load built around their bodies and missions. https://t.co/Emp5tbzqGh

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Pacific Islanders serve in the U.S. military at among the highest per capita rates of any state or territory. When they come home, they can't get VA care. https://t.co/RX8mgCRfWQ

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The case for deeper government-industry trust comes with limits. Wide access to sensitive threat data across a frontier lab's full workforce isn't realistic. https://t.co/wQ9pdtTxID

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Russian brigades in Ukraine now cover ground a single battalion used to hold, and often can only put a fraction of their strength into a fight. https://t.co/RlhgYI8vjE

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From plate carriers to diaper bags, the PALS grid is now everywhere in American life, marking a country fluent in military imagery but distant from military service. https://t.co/Emp5tbzqGh

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Pacific Island veterans face a choice no other American veteran makes: stay in the U.S. for your healthcare, or go home and lose it. https://t.co/RX8mgCRfWQ

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We keep hearing that AI's cyber threats are the opening act. If biological capabilities are next, the information-sharing infrastructure to handle it does not exist yet. https://t.co/wQ9pdtTxID

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This year, the chambers advanced two very different defense bills with one shared instinct: to compel the Pentagon to use the authorities it already has. https://t.co/JrdXxzxZRw

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Fly one airframe in one component, and you see the Air Force one way. Fly three across active duty and the Guard, and the stovepipes start looking like a choice. (Members Only)

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The United States is locked in a new kind of economic competition, but it currently lacks the workforce to compete. https://t.co/WmoZF623xj

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Every front that Camp David left unresolved eventually became a front someone else could exploit. The Iran negotiations risk repeating that with Lebanon. https://t.co/zeRR55lFzA