Patrick Tucker
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Pentagon update on National Defense Strategy cites progress, omits key threats (opens the original)
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The Pentagon’s latest report about its implementation of the National Defense Strategy notes progress on accelerating weapons production, cutting red tape, and persuading European governments to boost defense spending—but is light on problems such as Russia’s increasing aggression in Europe and the high cost of U.S. wars in the Middle East. The report to Congress, dated Sept. 22 but pushed out on Defense Department social media on Tuesday, argues that the Trump administration has made “significa
Polish defense official says US has decided to establish a base in Poland (opens the original)
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Poland will fulfill a longtime goal of hosting a permanent U.S. military base, a Polish defense leader said Friday, adding that the two countries are nearing an agreement to jointly develop weapons. “We understand that decision has been made,” Paweł Ksawery Zalewski, secretary of state at Poland’s Ministry of National Defence, told an audience in Washington, D.C. Asked for comment, a Pentagon spokesman said, “We have nothing to announce at this time.” The Polish government first sought a U.S. mi
NATO’s thumbs-up for AWS shows Europe still needs America (opens the original)
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Amazon Web Services has become the first cloud provider cleared to handle sensitive information for all NATO members, underscoring that an increasingly independent Europe still relies on capabilities made in America, and suggesting that it's not as hard for U.S. firms to compete there as the White House insists. The company announced on Tuesday that it has received alliance approval to handle information at the NATO RESTRICTED level, which is not classified but requires safeguarding. As European
Iran strikes exposed gaps in medical evacuation ops across Middle East: IG (opens the original)
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The military abandoned plans to use Army helicopters to evacuate wounded troops involved in the war with Iran, and instead resorted to slower ground-based evacuations, in part due to the threat of drone strikes, according to a Defense Department Office of the Inspector General report released Monday. The shift illustrates a problem medical officials had warned about for years. At the start of the operation, the U.S. used Army helicopters in Kuwait and Iraq for medical evacuation, but then moved
Russia is weaponizing US-built AI to make killer drones, cyberattack bots, and fake news (opens the original)
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Kremlin-backed actors used Anthropic’s Claude AI to program autonomous lethal drones, improve hacking and influence operations, and avoid detection, the company said Thursday. The report from the U.S.-based AI company is only the latest warning from firms, think tanks, and others that Russia, China, Iran and others are using made-in-America tools to attack targets around the world. Anthropic reports that a Russian “freelance” group known as GTG-27005 used Claude to build an AI model small enough
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