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US Withdraws Troops, Patriot Batteries From Northern Iraq Amid Iranian Attacks There are new reports Friday of more US troop pullback initiatives in the wake of the last couple weeks of US-Iran fighting, and Iranian ballistic missile and drone strikes which have targeted American bases with increased regularity, especially in Jordan and Kuwait. One regional media publication freshly reports, "The United States military has started to draw down its last remaining forces from Iraq stationed in the vicinity of Erbil's airport in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region, well-placed sources with close knowledge of the...

Is The AI Spending Boom Creating A Depreciation Time Bomb? Via City AM, Big Tech's AI spending has exploded, with Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Meta collectively investing hundreds of billions of dollars in infrastructure. Rapid technological change may shorten the economic life of AI servers and GPUs, increasing depreciation and replacement costs. The long-term profitability of AI will depend not only on demand growth but also on whether companies can justify the enormous ongoing capital requirements. The eye-watering capital expenditure plans of Big Tech has been one of the year’s biggest stories.  Google, Meta, Amazon, and...

Toward Dual-Use Deterrence On The Moon Authored by Rick Fisher via The Epoch Times, As the United States pursues its goal of sending astronauts to the moon starting in 2028 to start building lunar bases—and China pursues its goal of sending its people to the moon by 2029 or 2030, also to start building lunar bases—it is necessary to consider a lunar political-military stability based on dual-use technologies. Concern that China could behave aggressively on the moon is justified based on its behavior on Earth: an unwillingness to recognize the territory of...