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🪖 10,000 more troops, a judge, and a diamond chip

The Iran war is escalating on every axis, and a federal judge just rewrote the rules on AI in the DoD.

🧠 The quiet AI risk no one in the Pentagon is watching

Mar 26, 2026

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🧠 The quiet AI risk no one in the Pentagon is watching

The Pentagon is spending $500M to surge missile production and quietly losing the human judgment needed to use it.

🌊 China is mapping the ocean floor for war

Mar 25, 2026

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🌊 China is mapping the ocean floor for war

China's seabed surveillance campaign is eroding the U.S. Navy's most critical asymmetric advantage, one sensor at a time.

🚛 The Army's counter-drone truck now drives itself

Mar 24, 2026

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🚛 The Army's counter-drone truck now drives itself

A self-driving microwave weapon debuts, Trump claims Iran is negotiating, and a new DHS chief walks into a shutdown with 100,000 workers unpaid.

🌊 An armed U.S. drone washed up in Turkey

Mar 23, 2026

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🌊 An armed U.S. drone washed up in Turkey

A $57 dual-link drone fix, a $500M IPO pop, and a mystery USV on a Turkish beach, all in today's brief.

🚢 Marines are headed to Iran, and ground invasion plans are on the table

Mar 21, 2026

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🚢 Marines are headed to Iran, and ground invasion plans are on the table

Two amphibious groups are converging on the Middle East as Pentagon planners quietly map out what boots on the ground in Iran would actually take.

🤖 The intelligence community's new AI warning

Mar 20, 2026

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🤖 The intelligence community's new AI warning

AI is now a top-tier national security threat, the Strait of Hormuz is mined, and the Pentagon needs $200 billion.

🚀 Rocket Lab just won the Pentagon's hypersonic race

Mar 19, 2026

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13 min read

🚀 Rocket Lab just won the Pentagon's hypersonic race

From a historic defense budget to Rocket Lab's record hypersonics deal, today's Brief covers every dollar and every missile.

✈️ The Pentagon only had "dozens" of its new cheap attack drones when the Iran war started

Mar 18, 2026

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✈️ The Pentagon only had "dozens" of its new cheap attack drones when the Iran war started

Israel is arming its jets with lasers, the U.S. had almost no cheap attack drones ready, and the top counterterrorism official just quit.

🎯 The Army fired a laser at a Boeing 767 at White Sands and the FAA was satisfied

Mar 17, 2026

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12 min read

🎯 The Army fired a laser at a Boeing 767 at White Sands and the FAA was satisfied

CENTCOM says 100 Iranian warships are gone and the campaign just tapped robots, lasers, and Anduril software to keep pace.

🚀 AFRL built a supersonic missile engine in 8 months

Mar 16, 2026

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🚀 AFRL built a supersonic missile engine in 8 months

Week three of Epic Fury, a supersonic engine milestone, and the Navy's minesweepers just vanished from the Middle East.

🤖 Ukraine's war data is now an allied weapon

Mar 14, 2026

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14 min read

🤖 Ukraine's war data is now an allied weapon

Kharg Island struck, a $20B counter-drone deal reshapes the C2 stack, and Ukraine turns four years of combat data into a global AI asset.

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🪖 10,000 more troops, a judge, and a diamond chip

🧠 The quiet AI risk no one in the Pentagon is watching

🌊 China is mapping the ocean floor for war

🚛 The Army's counter-drone truck now drives itself

🌊 An armed U.S. drone washed up in Turkey

🚢 Marines are headed to Iran, and ground invasion plans are on the table

🤖 The intelligence community's new AI warning

🚀 Rocket Lab just won the Pentagon's hypersonic race

✈️ The Pentagon only had "dozens" of its new cheap attack drones when the Iran war started

🎯 The Army fired a laser at a Boeing 767 at White Sands and the FAA was satisfied

🚀 AFRL built a supersonic missile engine in 8 months

🤖 Ukraine's war data is now an allied weapon

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