The long walk — A British army bomb disposal specialist approaches a suspect vehicle in Belfast, 1970s.

The central message is clear. Data and AI are and will be crucial in warfare. However, data and AI will not radically transform combat itself — humans will still overwhelmingly operate the lethal weapon systems, including remote ones, to kill people, as the war in Ukraine shows.

Russia claimed on Wednesday that Ukraine had launched a drone strike at President Putin’s residence overnight. The Kremlin said it “regards these actions as a planned terrorist attack and an attempt on the president,” and reserved the right to retaliate.

Probably one of the best visual depictions of the change across time in territorial control/force size of the Russo-Ukrainian war.

An intense depiction of a young Napoleon Bonaparte studying at the military academy at Brienne-le-Chateau, France, circa 1780.

"It is not peace that is important but the conditions of peace." This profound statement by Napoleon Bonaparte underscores a vital principle in geopolitical thinking and peace studies. A thread 🧵

Anti ninja floors (Nightingale floor) used in Japan to alert of any trespassers

The evolving crisis in Russia is a direct consequence of VVP's coup proofing arrangements, where powerful factions were balanced in opposition to each other, & the would be Tsar sat above to mediate disputes. This had deflected personal blame for mounting failures, but something

A look at the United States's military firepower in the Middle East. More to come!

#Hamas #Israel Dennis Prager at Oxford Union debate, a must-see:

Architecture is the reaching out for the truth. La Venaria Reale, A. Bonin.