Intel

As the colorful political alliance of President Donald Trump and the world’s wealthiest man Elon Musk was historic in its scope and had a clear impact on the early space policy of Trump’s second term, their first week of June 2025 titanic political bust-up must not be allowed to divert one of the major strengths of the United States space program — Musk’s SpaceX company. Read More.

People’s Liberation Army (PLA) researchers' approach to cognitive warfare is in tune with ancient Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu’s belief that subduing the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill. Read More.

Eighteen months in the making, Ukraine’s operation “Spider’s Web” was a bold non-nuclear strike against Russia’s strategic nuclear forces that has not only re-written the rules of warfare but has opened an era of global-strike drone warfare. Read More.

President Donald Trump is determined to upend the existing strategic nuclear balance by decreasing the utility of China’s and Russia’s investment in nuclear superiority over the United States, by building a National Missile Defense for Americans that will press China and Russia also to build missile defenses, which over time could neutralize nuclear weapons competition. Read More.

Charles Lieber, a former Harvard chemist and nanoscientist who was convicted of lying to investigators about secret work he did for communist China, has been hired by Tsinghua University as a professor. Read More.

The U.S. Department of Defense and Department of Energy have funded laboratories at American universities which in their research used Chinese supercomputers that have contributed to the communist nation's military buildup. Read More.

Without having to respond to a free press or an inquisitive legislature, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is free to define government transparency as it pleases, usually minimally in order to deny critical insights to adversaries looking to defend themselves from CCP aggression. Read More.

The new chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff has warned that America’s military in its current state is not able to deter China and other adversarial states. Read More.

China’s growing naval power is regularly and systematically harassing the waters around Taiwan in what appears to be rehearsal exercises for a future invasion of the self-ruled democratic island. Read More.

U.S. intelligence agencies believe Gen. He Weidong, one of two vice chairmen of the Central Military Commission (CMC), is the latest victim of a political purge in the upper ranks of China’s People’s Liberation Army. Read More.

United States President Donald Trump is engaged in a high profile-attempt to pressure Iran to give up its ambitions to build nuclear weapons. Read More.

Iran has been adamant about not wanting to open diplomatic channels with U.S. President Donald Trump. But the regime of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei will be pressed to abandon that stance if Trump works out some kind of deal with one of Iran’s top allies, Russia. Read More.

As the Trump Administration and new National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Administrator Jared Issacman review and reassess the Artemis Moon Program and determine the best way to pursue President Donald Trump’s additional priority to put Americans on Mars, it is also important to keep in mind that China is focused on the Moon and is building crucial momentum to reach its goal populating the Moon starting in 2030 or perhaps earlier. Read More.

Following Christopher Rufo's Feb. 24 report that sex chats became an “on-the-job priority” on the National Security Agency (NSA) Intelink messaging platform, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said that over 100 individuals in the intelligence community have been identified as having "contributed to and participated in" the chat groups and their employment will be terminated. Read More.

Not only Democrats but many entrenched power brokers are pulling out all the stops to delay it, but it looks like a solid bet that Kash Patel will become the next director of the FBI. Read More.