When combatant commanders become more powerful than civilians in the eyes of the media, Washington, and world leaders, it throws off a critical balance
The U.S. ends its military campaign in Baghdad after 23 years of fighting. The campaign cost 4,418 US troops their lives and will end up costing nearly $3 trillion through 2050.
A $7 billion deal is raising eyebrows, as is the Anduril CEO's relationship with Trump. But after so many shipbuilding failures, the DOD could do worse
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Microsoft joins a host of other ideologically-driven tech defenders of Kviv. Some, like Palantir, are doing so while expanding profit margins.
Had anyone told me while I was dodging IEDs in 2007 that I'd be writing about the final withdrawal at age 48, I would have rightly questioned the entire project
