Hormuz Mine Threat Emerges; White House Denies Tanker Escort

China Flexes Robot Wolves With Machine Guns And A "Collective Brain" Four years of hyperdevelopment, battlefield testing, and deployment of FPVs, ground robots, AI-enabled kill chains, and soon humanoid robots have permanently altered the course of the modern battlefield, as war technologies once viewed as 2030s-era weapons are being pulled forward into the present day and are now proliferating across battlefields stretching from the Eastern European theater to the Gulf theater, as Eurasia appears to be at war. The latest reminder is that, regardless of the battlefield across Eurasia, there...

New Jersey Offers Taxpayer-Funded Legal Services To Noncitizens Improperly Registered To Vote This week, New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill revealed that more than 6,600 noncitizens ended up on its voter rolls, with nearly 400 of them casting ballots between June 2023 and June 2024. Despite saying the situation is unacceptable and claiming that she is being proactive to fix it, her administration has also begun steering the same noncitizens toward taxpayer-funded legal help. Sherrill promptly blamed the software vendor, IDEMIA, for the problem. "Let me be clear: this entire situation is unacceptable," Sherrill...

Hegseth Ousts Chief Of The Army As Iran War Persists The Pentagon shake-up under Trump has not ended, as on Thursday Pete Hegseth has dismissed Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George, asking him to step down into early retirement. The move is unusual, given this is the head of the Army and the United States is past the one-moth mark in Trump's Operation Epic Fury. A reason hasn't been given as to what amounts to Gen. George being effectively fired. CBS writes, "One of the sources said Hegseth wants someone in the...