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You Don’t Need to Thank Me for My Service. I Needed It More Than It Needed Me
I’m proud of my service. Let me get that out of the way up front. But I don’t parade my service around. I don’t wear clothes that advertise it. There…
U.S. and Papua New Guinea Sign Defense Pact as Washington, Beijing Vie for Influence in the Pacific
The United States and Papua New Guinea have signed a new bilateral defense cooperation agreement – a move that has sparked controversy in the Pacific Island nation and comes as…
Start-Ups Bring Silicon Valley Ethos to a Lumbering Military-Industrial Complex
Small, fast-moving U.S. tech firms are using the war in Ukraine to demonstrate a new generation of military systems but face the challenge of selling them to a risk-averse Defense…
How to Build Discipline and Resilience Amid Supply Chain Uncertainty
It’s never my intention to sound like a broken record. But if you’re the weatherman, your job is to report on the weather, even if the forecast shows a big,…
China Puts Spymaster in Charge of U.S. Corporate Crackdown
China’s crackdown on overseas firms has made clear that leader Xi Jinping values security over economic growth. To eradicate any doubt, according to people familiar with the matter, he has put state-security czar Chen Yixin in…
United States Opens Tonga Embassy as it Pushes for Pacific Influence
The United States opened an embassy in Tonga on Wednesday as it continued efforts to bolster its diplomatic presence in Pacific island countries where it is vying for influence with…
Industry Report Warns Of Limitations On Hypersonic Supply Base
The U.S. hypersonic industrial base is not large enough to produce the number of weapons the Pentagon would need in a future war, and the Defense Department needs to show…
Ukraine and China Will Dominate G7 Summit, But a New Threat Lurks: A.I.
President Biden began his foreshortened Asia trip on Thursday in Hiroshima, a city that devotes itself to reminding the world of what happens when a brutal war escalates into a…
