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Rick Baillergeon, Military Review The Traits and Skills of Successful Battalion Commanders in Combat Source link

Artificial intelligence (AI) chat functions have swiftly changed the way we acquire information today. Now the next iteration has arrived in the form of agentic AI, which is already having profound effects on both tactical and strategic operations.  As language models rapidly scale, often via easily accessible open-source models, they hand both friendly forces and adversaries a powerful new toolkit for rapid cyber operations and automated decision-making. Garrett Berntsen, Chief AI Officer at Accenture Federal Services and former Deputy Chief Data and Artificial Intelligence Officer for Scaled Capabilities, discusses how defense leaders can look beyond the hype and build an…

Francis P. Sempa, RealClearDefense Donald Trump has done more than any other 21st century U.S. president to “pivot” to Asia and the western Pacific, yet recently his… Source link

Jay Rogers, RealClearDefense The Army has decided that airpower close to the ground doesn’t need a pilot’s name on it as often as it used to, and it plans to cut close to 6,500 active-duty… Source link

Stephen D. Cook, RCPolitics What I struggle to comprehend is the visceral contempt some Americans now direct at their fellow citizens. It is a hatred that feels familiar in intensity yet… Source link

The war is also creating strategic opportunities for Washington and new challenges for Beijing in the Middle East. Source link

Michael P. Jenkins, RCD The most dangerous failures in defense technology are not sensor failures or algorithm failures. Source link

At 10:15 p.m. on July 29, Shukur Aikebaer was abducted and murdered outside his residence in Chino County, California, by two individuals, reportedly named Zhengfeng Bo and Jianquan Bo. Aikebaer’s death sent shock waves through Uyghur communities worldwide.  Investigators have not established a motive or released details about the suspects; Zhengfeng Bo was killed by police during the kidnapping. However, the incident mirrors a similar case from Uzbekistan. In July 2024, Ablehet Qahar, an Uyghur historian, was murdered in his Tashkent apartment. The crime was quietly swept under the rug, and shortly after, Qahar’s residence was barricaded and the entirety…

Myanmar’s military-backed government has again rejected the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)’s call for the release of detained leader Aung San Suu Kyi and dismissed the need for an ASEAN special envoy on Myanmar. The statement came on Saturday, after the 11-nation Southeast Asian bloc renewed its call for the “unconditional release” of the 81-year-old leader, who was removed from power in the February 2021 coup and remains under house arrest in Naypyidaw. On August 3, Aung San Suu Kyi was permitted to meet with a representative of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), and the military…

AI agents from OpenAI and Anthropic autonomously collaborated with one another to deceive humans, share break-in tools, and steal data in a series of independent tests, confirmed by both companies.On Tuesday, the AI Security Institute published a paper about experiments intended to help understand how AI agents solve cybersecurity challenges. AISI researchers found that agents given access to the internet and allowed to disregard some security features would perform “autonomous, unsanctioned action…targeting real people and organizations.”Company officials confirmed the findings Thursday. “AI-orchestrated, fully automated offensive attacks are real now,” OpenAI security official Michael Dalton said during a briefing on the report during…