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U.S. concerns about the risks of fighting a coming war with Russia and China are well-grounded, given it is unprepared to fight even a purely conventional war with them.

Defence stocks outperformed the stock market overall by 58 percent during the Afghanistan War, writes John Schwarz for a media outlet sponsored by e-bay. “If you purchased $10,000 of stock evenly...

Was the Afghanistan War a failure? Not for the top five defense contractors and their shareholders.

U.S. forces remain over-reliant on large, vulnerable installations and big ships, experts warn.

Not if the United States has anything to say about it. Heres What You Need To Remember: In 2019 China was still in phase one. But phase two is looming as China’s economy expands and Chinese technology improves, in part owing to widespread industrial espionage. Chinese leaders have laid out a plan for deploying the world’s best-armed forces no later than 2049. If the United States is to prevent China from becoming the world’s leading military power, it needs a plan of its own. That’s th...

AI-enabled information operations "Adversaries will use AI to create weapons of mass influence to use as leverage during future wars, in which every citizen and organization becomes a target," the report says. Vice Chairman of the commission Robert Work was one of the panelists during a Council on Foreign Relations virtual event to talk about "Artificial Intelligence and the Future of U.S.-China Technology Competition." Work says, "The weapons of first resort are either cyber attacks or disinfo...

USNI News Artificial Intelligence Advocate Could Help Commanders in Battle, AI Commission Vice Chair Says April 19, 2021 5:43 PM Operations Specialist 3rd Class Zachary Ezekiel, assigned to the guided-missile cruiser USS Monterey (CG 61), identifies air contacts in the combat information center (CIC) on March 21, 2016. Monterey is underway conducting Composite Training Unit Exercise (COMPTUEX) with the Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group in preparation for a future deployment. US Navy photo. Comman...

Data is now at the center of global trade. For decades, international trade in goods and services set the pace of globalization. After the global financial crisis, however, growth in trade plateaued, and in its place came an explosion of cross-border data flows. Measured by bandwidth, cross-border data flows grew roughly 112 times over from 2008 to 2020. The global economy has become a perpetual motion machine of data: it consumes it, processes it, and produces ever more quantities of it. Digit...

ROBOTICS AND AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS 4/9/2021 iStock illustration The head of the Pentagon’s Joint Artificial Intelligence Center said the office supports recommendations outlined by the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence, which called for sweeping changes to ensure the United States is “AI-ready” by 2025. The report offers readers “a deep understanding and a deep analysis of down to first principles, bare metal for what it takes for A...

By   Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. on April 09, 2021 at 2:13 PM Robert Work during his days as deputy Defense secretary WASHINGTON: The US has a narrow lead on China in artificial intelligence, but the Chinese are catching up fast. In fact, they’re already at least narrowly ahead in three of six critical areas, the vice-chair of the National Security Commission on AI said today. The “AI Stack.” SOURCE: Final Report of the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence “We do not ...