Little Bighorn Battle: Custer's Fatal Mistake

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Tactics | Custer's defeat shows how reconnaissance failure, divided command, and logistics can turn confidence into collapse

China's PLARF Is Making Missile Launchers Harder to Find, Not Just Harder to Intercept

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Hardware | China's missile force is emphasizing mobility, mixed trajectories, and launch survivability as much as raw range

India's Defense Self-Reliance: The Supply Chain Reality

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Defense Hot Topics | India's defense self-reliance now depends less on slogans than on whether supply chains can scale under pressure

The Battle of Marathon: How Miltiades Broke the Phalanx to Defeat the Persian Empire

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History | Marathon shows how tactical adaptation and command timing can beat a larger force before doctrine catches up

Denying the Route: Captain John Ripley and the Demolition That Stalled the NVA

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Tactics | John Ripley's Dong Ha demolition shows how terrain denial can turn one destroyed bridge into operational delay

Ukraine's Cheap Drones With Laser Eyes Are Turning Targeting Into an Alliance Problem

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Hardware | Ukraine's experiment matters because cheap drones can move laser targeting from scarce aircraft into expendable battlefield systems

Passchendaele: A Great War Village That Cost a Quarter Million Lives

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History | Passchendaele shows how alliance politics, weather, and logistics can turn tactical movement into strategic exhaustion

Claude Mythos in the Shadows: How the NSA Reportedly Embedded Engineers to Run a Prohibited AI

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Intelligence | The reported NSA-Anthropic arrangement shows how mission pressure can bend AI governance faster than policy can catch up

Congress Wants to Write the Rules of Engagement for Military AI Before the Pentagon Does

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AI in Defense | Gillibrand's bills show Congress trying to set military AI red lines before procurement and industry practice harden into doctrine

How China Flew 170 Sorties at the Philippines' Door, Then Pulled Back

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Geopolitics | China's Liaoning sorties near Luzon matter less as a headline number than as a test of carrier sustainment and sortie tempo