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NARRATIVE: China is stealing American AI — while Washington looks the other way
A report says China is stealing more than half of America's military-civil technologies. The FBI confirms hundreds of billions in annual losses. And the…
OPINION: Crimea goes dark — substations on fire and the fortress island that is cracking
I look at these satellite images and I think about what Putin sold when he annexed Crimea in 2014: an eternal victory, a strategic…
EDITORIAL: LinkedIn as a battlefield — China is recruiting spies from your network, right now
What strikes me about this operation is its brutal elegance. No complex hacking. No high-risk undercover agent. Just a job posting on a platform…
FACT-CHECK: Did Ukraine's IT Army really pivot toward Russian military targets?
I want to begin with a warning I apply to myself: it is easy to glorify the IT Army because it is fighting for…
ESSAY: Transatlanticism as a Convenience Partnership — and Why That Is Enough, for Now
A convenience partnership. The formula is honest and a little sad. NATO was founded on the principle that democracies sharing common values would defend…
COLUMN: Sybiha Sounds the Alarm — Kyiv's Night of Horror and the West's Air Defense Delay
Sybiha's sentence — "Russia has no right to strike Ukraine, Ukraine has every right to respond" — deserves to be read carefully. This is…
OPINION: Ukraine Strikes Ufa Twice — 1,300 km from the Front, One-Third of Russian Refineries Offline
A refinery at 1,300 km. Lubricants that armored vehicles won't have. Missiles that a Penza factory won't be able to build. This opinion piece…
PROFILE: Kateryna Lykhohliad — the 425th Regiment Journalist Soldiers Called an Enemy
There is something chilling in the symmetry of this story: a journalist who documents real deaths in a real regiment ends up designated as…
INVESTIGATION: Tytan Technologies Opens a German Factory to Produce 3,000 Anti-Drone Interceptors per Month
There is something remarkably clear-eyed in this industrial logic: answer quantity with quantity, autonomy with autonomy. The war in Ukraine forced engineers to abandon…