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Simon Shuster

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Sep 8, 2026
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Jul 12, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 8, 2026 · Simon Shuster

    Will Taiwan Just Give Up? (opens the original)

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    Sign up for our newsletter about national security here. Chinese President Xi Jinping does not often look like he’s having a good time. His resting face at public events exudes a mixture of boredom and annoyance, as though he has more interesting business elsewhere. His displays of good humor have qualified as news in Chinese state media. When a camera caught him laughing during a meeting last October with Donald Trump, the moment “stunned observers,” according to one news report. At their meeti

  2. Article · Aug 20, 2026 · Simon Shuster

    Ukraine Planned to Swarm Moscow Airports With AI-Guided Drones (opens the original)

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    Sign up for our newsletter about national security here. Early this year, Ukrainian officials came to President Volodymyr Zelensky with a risky new plan to end the war with Russia. It would require expanding their bombing campaign to include a set of targets and a class of weapons they had long avoided. In addition to Ukraine’s ongoing strikes against Russian military bases, oil refineries, supply lines, and logistics hubs, the officials wanted to launch waves of AI-enabled drones at Moscow’s ai

  3. Article · Aug 17, 2026 · Simon Shuster

    NATO’s Nightmare (opens the original)

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    Western military planners do not seem eager to talk about their nightmare scenario, much less prepare for it. But they tend to agree on how it would begin: a coordinated, near-simultaneous attack on opposite sides of the planet, in which Russia targets a NATO member in Eastern Europe while China makes its move against Taiwan. The U.S. military would need to react on two fronts at once—three if it remains at war in the Middle East. Until recently, this possibility sat at the more outlandish end o

  4. Article · Jul 30, 2026 · Simon Shuster, Missy Ryan, Jonathan Lemire

    Zelensky Asked Trump for a Favor From Elon Musk (opens the original)

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    Sign up for our newsletter about national security here. During closed-door talks at the White House on Tuesday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky laid out a plan for his country to survive another winter of war with Russia. For it to work, President Trump would need to call in a big favor from his ally Elon Musk. But according to two officials familiar with the conversation, Trump was noncommittal, leaving the future of the plan in doubt. The new proposal, which has not been previously rep

  5. Article · Jul 24, 2026 · Simon Shuster

    Inside the Feud Over Ukraine’s Drone Success (opens the original)

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    Drone warfare took a while to catch on in Ukraine. Like any revolution, it required a struggle. The opposition came mostly from the older generals trained to fight using artillery and tanks. Early in the war with Russia, many of them saw drones as toys, better suited to taking aerial photos of wedding parties than flying missions over the battlefield. But a coalition of junior officers and tech enthusiasts saw early on that drones could hold the key to Ukraine’s defense, even its victory. The co

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