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Netanyahu confirms New York trip for UN General Assembly, to address UN on September 24 Hezbollah trying to establish footholds within gaps in southern Lebanon's Yellow Line, IDF reveals Iran protests as US prevents its nuclear chief attending IAEA meeting Ukraine will support energy ceasefire if US ensures Moscow's intent, Zelenskiy says Saudi leader meets U.S. commander as widening conflict Threatens oil markets Saudi energy minister takes swipe at Iran’s nuclear secrecy Masad Haaretz Institute’s Liron Rose and author Amit Shabi: Iran tried to intimidate Saudi Arabia - it may have made Riyadh more powerful instead North Korea's Kim vows to expand ties with Russia, backs victory in 'sacred war' China’s top spy chief warns A.I. is a threat to party rule Stanford University Fellow Anne Neuberger: The new Chinese way of cyberwar Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland join in Celtic independence push Pentagon sees strategic inventory munitions shortfalls, IG SaysIn The News
Israel
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will travel to the United States on September 23 to attend the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York, the Prime Minister’s Office announced Monday. – Jerusalem Post
The IDF continued its counterterrorism operations across the Gaza Strip on Monday with five targeted strikes on Hamas terrorists. – Jerusalem Post
The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) is moving forward with plans to restructure its legislative body, the Palestinian National Council (PNC) ahead of Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) elections scheduled for November 28, according to Palestinian reports. – Jerusalem Post
Hezbollah terrorists are attempting to establish a presence within the boundaries of the Yellow Line in southern Lebanon, IDF Northern Command sources revealed on Tuesday. – Jerusalem Post
Norway is weighing introducing legislation that would both ban trade with all Israeli settlements and provide for penalties of up to three years in prison for violations, Norwegian Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide said Monday. – Times of Israel
US President Donald Trump on Sunday extolled the work of his special envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner amid reports he was looking to elevate CIA chief John Ratcliffe in their stead with regard to Washington’s efforts to bring an end to the war between Ukraine and Russia […] Trump highlighted Witkoff’s and Kushner’s work to secure a ceasefire-hostage release deal in Gaza last year. – Agence-France Presse
Mark Lavie writes: Despite the narrative that Jews control everything with their unlimited resources and devilish practices, the fact is that Israel and the Jews of the world are vastly outnumbered and outspent by the forces promoting the current narrative. I’ve written here about Qatar and its multibillion-dollar campaign to influence opinion in the US. It’s likely that a generation is lost, but it’s time to start working on the next one. – Jerusalem Post
Bassam Tawil writes: Above all, Palestinians need leaders courageous enough to tell their people an uncomfortable truth: there can be no genuine progress so long as the political choice remains confined to Fatah and Hamas, and that the primary objective of both groups remains the obliteration of Israel. The Palestinians do not need another election contest between Fatah and Hamas. They need an escape from this political monopoly. – Gatestone Institute
Iran
Shipping traffic at the Strait of Hormuz dwindled further at the start of this week after attacks intensified in the Middle East, shipping data showed. – Reuters
The United States blocked Iran’s nuclear chief from attending this week’s U.N. atomic watchdog meeting in Vienna by opposing an exemption from so-called “snapback” U.N. sanctions, prompting protests from Tehran on Monday. – Reuters
Iran’s Persian Gulf Strait Authority, set up by Iran to manage requests of passage in the Strait of Hormuz, published on Monday an updated list of 77 vessels “violating Iranian protocols for the Strait of Hormuz”. – Reuters
Russia and Ukraine
Offering a grim assessment of Russia’s relations with the West, President Vladimir Putin pointedly warned European governments not to deploy any troops, including peacekeeping forces, to Ukraine, saying it would mean “war.” – Washington Post
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Monday that Kyiv was ready to support a U.S. proposal for a Russia-Ukraine ceasefire on energy sites only if Washington could ensure Moscow was genuinely ready to end its war on Ukraine. – Reuters
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy called on Ukrainian lawmakers on Monday to swiftly support the removal of Ukraine’s prosecutor general, the latest senior official in his wartime administration to be embroiled in a clash with anti-corruption agencies. – Reuters
A drone hit a petrol station in Ukraine’s capital of Kyiv early on Tuesday, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said, just a day after U.S. President Donald Trump said Ukraine and Russia had agreed not to target each other’s energy assets. – Reuters
A Russian drone struck a train near the Ukraine- Poland border on Sunday shortly after senior visiting officials — including the former prime ministers of the UK and Sweden — passed through, Ukraine’s state rail operator said. – Times of Israel
Russia is upgrading its attack drones by powering them with fast turbojet engines, making them much more difficult to intercept and forcing Ukraine to develop technology to knock them down. – Politico
Vladimir Kara-Murza writes: At the same time, Western democracies should continue engagement and dialogue with Russian society, a large part of which is increasingly — and evidently — turning against the regime and the war. In years past, the free world has been able to make the distinction between regime and society when it came to dealing with authoritarian countries. Invariably, this distinction played an important and positive role when those countries underwent political change. It would be both prudent and farsighted for the West to do the same in relation to Russia. – Washington Post
Ravi Agrawal writes: Most of us imagined we’d be safe on our journey partly because, until very recently, Russia had been unable to strike trains to Kyiv’s west. But more than that, there was strength in numbers. Surely, we reasoned, Moscow wouldn’t try to attack a group of conference attendees that included sitting national security advisors from France, Germany, and the United Kingdom, along with several ministers from across Europe? – Foreign Policy
Michael Kimmage and Maria Lipman write: Analysts of Russia are understandably preoccupied by possible changes in the country’s internal trajectory—a burst of dissent, an election, a particularly destructive Ukrainian strike. Since the war began, the United States and Europe have expected its mounting costs to weigh down and even imperil Putin. Yet throughout the war, calm has reigned within Russia. A few weeks of panic directly followed the invasion of Ukraine, but after that, Russians withdrew into acceptance of the war. – Foreign Affairs
Syria
Syrians have taken to the streets to protest the government’s decision to raise fuel prices, a move that has added to the punishing cost of living in the country as it struggles to recover from a civil war that ended two years ago. – New York Times
A convoy of Russian naval and cargo vessels delivered supplies last week to coastal facilities long used by Moscow’s military, two sources familiar with the operation said, in the first such mission since Damascus and Moscow agreed last month on the future of Russia’s military presence in the country. – Reuters
Neville Teller writes: The Constitutional Declaration provides for a five-year transition from March 2025, ending only when both the permanent constitution has been adopted and elections held under it. March 2030 is currently the outer horizon. The immediate next step is to establish the body to be charged with drafting the new constitution. The absorption of the SDF’s military and administrative functions into the state was a vital step toward the eventual achievement of a fully functioning, democratic, constitutional Syria. – Jerusalem Post
Saudi Arabia
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia met on Monday with the U.S. commander who oversees Middle East operations, days after President Trump rebuffed the Saudi leader’s calls for help in combating the Iranian-backed Houthi militia in Yemen. – New York Times
Saudi Arabia has discovered 110 million tonnes of raw materials containing uranium concentrations in Medina, the kingdom’s energy minister said at the IAEA General Conference in Vienna, Saudi state TV reported on Monday. – Reuters
U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday nominated Texas Republican Representative Wesley Hunt to be ambassador to Saudi Arabia, which would fill a position vacant since Trump began his second term in January 2025. – Reuters
Australian Energy Minister Chris Bowen said he would travel to Saudi Arabia next week to meet his counterpart, Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman, as an escalation in the Middle East conflict raises concerns over global energy supply disruptions. – Reuters
Saudi Arabia pushed back against concerns over its ambition to build a nuclear power industry and enrich uranium, signaling that its approach was not comparable to Iran’s. – Bloomberg
Israel and Saudi Arabia held talks mediated by US Central Command aimed at helping Riyadh defend itself against the Houthi military through intelligence assistance, diplomatic sources in the Middle East claimed. – Jerusalem Post
Thirteen civilians were wounded in strikes by the Iran-backed Houthis on the Saudi cities of Khamis Mushait, Abha, and Taif on Monday, the Saudi-led coalition announced early on Tuesday. – Jerusalem Post
Liron Rose and Amit Shabi write: Threatening Hormuz was supposed to reinforce that reality. It may be doing the opposite. Every threat to Gulf shipping makes secure Saudi export routes more valuable. Every escalation makes Saudi cooperation more important to Washington. Every attempt to destabilize the regional order increases the country’s value, and everyone may need to rebuild it. Iran wanted Riyadh to feel vulnerable enough to compromise. It may instead be making Riyadh indispensable enough to name its price. – Jerusalem Post
Middle East & North Africa
Eleven people were injured in an ammonia gas leak at an industrial complex in Jordan’s southern city of Aqaba on Monday, an official told Reuters. – Reuters
As Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi militants swept through the battered country’s Red Sea coastline, thousands of panicked people fled to makeshift camps, adding to an already vast population of internally displaced people. – Reuters
Two deadlines are looming for Iraq at the end of the month: the end of a decades-long U.S. military presence and the disarmament of non-state armed groups. – Associated Press
Devorah Margolin writes: After the territorial defeat of IS in 2019, thousands of men, women, and children who were connected to the group by membership, family ties, or other links were taken to detention sites in northeast Syria run by the U.S.-backed, Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). Women and young children were generally held in the Roj and al-Hol camps, while more than 10,000 men and teenage boys were held in other facilities. They hailed from various nationalities, including roughly 5,000 Syrians, 3,000 Iraqis, and 2,000 other foreign nationals. – Washington Institute
Ahmed Saber Abbas writes: If the United States wants these countries to assume responsibility for some regional threats, it should reduce their fear that doing so will replace one threat with an Israeli military superiority that has no clear geographical or political limits. The absence of a single patron protects each member from being easily drawn into the wars of the others, but it also prevents any state from transforming its own war into a joint war. Three patrons may finance, manufacture, train, and deter together, but they cannot easily make any one of their separate wars belong to all three. – War on the Rocks
Korean Peninsula
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said he would “expand and deepen” joint work with Russia in a message to Russian President Vladimir Putin, state media KCNA reported on Tuesday. – Reuters
South Korean President Lee Jae-myung’s approval rating fell to a new low on Monday, extending a steep decline as he entered the second year of his five-year term amid growing public discontent with key policies, including housing. – Reuters
South Korea’s state-run internet security agency said on Tuesday it is developing updated guidelines to manage the growing autonomy of AI systems, as companies deploy AI agents capable of operating with limited human oversight. – Reuters
China
China’s top spy chief has warned that artificial intelligence could pose a direct threat to the Chinese Communist Party’s hold on power, in what is the highest-level and most detailed articulation yet of how Beijing sees the technology’s security risks. – New York Times
China’s military leadership is expected to outline its aims for global security when it hosts its annual defence forum this week amid churning tensions in its own neighbourhood over Taiwan, the South China Sea and doubts about U.S. commitments to Asia. – Reuters
China tightened travel curbs on Tuesday as new exit-and-entry rules took effect, barring citizens deemed a potential threat to national technology security from leaving the country. – Reuters
A year after shifting production and sourcing out of China to avoid higher U.S. tariffs, some companies are learning that replicating the country’s factory ecosystem is not so easy and are bringing manufacturing back. – Reuters
Jonathan A. Czin writes: I have been studying Xi ever since he became China’s heir apparent, and I became an analyst at the CIA in the waning days of the George W. Bush administration. I spent years deciphering Xi for U.S. presidents as the intelligence community’s top expert on Xi. And I spent two years as the director for China at the National Security Council, where I staffed all of President Biden’s interactions with Xi and coordinated diplomacy with China across the U.S. government. – The Atlantic
South Asia
China and India’s LNG imports are likely to rebound from multi-year lows once the Middle East supply crunch ends and prices ease, industry executives expect, reversing a pick-up in coal and oil use to generate power due to the U.S.-Iran war. – Reuters
Pressure on the rupee is likely to persist this week as oil prices stay above $100 a barrel and expectations of a U.S. Federal Reserve rate hike grow, also weighing on government bonds. – Reuters
India has approved export of power to Nepal for 18 hours a day until December 31 after a devastating flood in the Himalayan nation last month wiped out about a tenth of its generation capacity, neighbour India’s power ministry said on Monday. – Reuters
India will be able to export up to 1.64 million metric tons of steel a year to the European Union under a free trade agreement, but exporters will still face carbon-related costs, according to the legal text of the pact. – Reuters
Asia
Foreign ministers of Cambodia and Thailand delivered opening statements on Tuesday at the first meeting of a U.N. arbitration process to resolve a long-running maritime dispute between the two Southeast Asian neighbours. – Reuters
The sacking of pro-growth, outspoken Indonesian Finance Minister Purbaya Yudhi Sadewa and President Prabowo Subianto’s decision to elevate his deputy, Suahasil Nazara, to the country’s top finance job will likely reassure investors after months of concerns about policy credibility. – Reuters
A Taiwanese union representing workers at Micron Technology warned on Tuesday it could move towards a strike unless the U.S. memory chipmaker agrees to a permanent profit-sharing system, escalating a labour dispute at its largest manufacturing hub. – Reuters
A predominantly Muslim region in the southern Philippines held its first elections for a regional parliament Monday and Tuesday following years of delays, moving it closer to self-rule after decades of insurgency and violence. – Associated Press
The president of Chubu Electric Power Co., Japan’s third-largest utility, said Monday that he and the chairperson are resigning to take responsibility over the company’s yearslong manipulation of earthquake safety data for two nuclear reactors and that the operator will withdraw applications to restart them. – Associated Press
Japan is considering a new mid-term defense spending target of 3.5% of GDP in line with NATO and other US allies, a move that could send a shockwave through financial markets concerned about Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s spending plans. – Bloomberg
Europe
The first ministers of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland on Monday called on the British government to “prepare for, plan and facilitate” their independence, days after President Donald Trump expressed his support for Irish reunification. – Washington Post
Hungary’s government submitted a bill to parliament late on Monday that would remove anti-LGBTQ+ rules prohibiting the “promotion of homosexuality” to under-18s implemented by Viktor Orban’s former nationalist government. – Reuters
Serbia’s President Aleksandar Vucic, a populist who has been president or prime minister for 12 years, said he would run for prime minister in an October 25 election, and thousands of opposition supporters rallied in Belgrade on Monday. – Reuters
Germany’s under-fire Chancellor Friedrich Merz called on colleagues to look beyond debates about his political future on Monday, warning that the protection of Europe was entering a decisive phase in the coming weeks and months. – Reuters
German prosecutors have charged a German-Ukrainian woman with spying for Russia, as Berlin steps up efforts to counter what it sees as an escalating hybrid threat from Moscow. – Reuters
Finland has joined France’s initiative to extend the reach of its nuclear deterrent through collaboration with partner European countries, the heads of both countries said on Monday. – Reuters
The Polish military has pulled what appears to be a Russian drone from the sea on the Baltic coast in northern Poland, the defence minister said on Monday. – Reuters
A Russian frigate fired two flares towards a Danish military helicopter in international waters off the coast of Denmark, narrowly missing the aircraft on Monday, the Nordic NATO member’s military said. – Reuters
European Union envoys have pushed back the expiry of EU Russia sanctions listings by seven days until September 22, a spokesperson for the EU’s Irish presidency said on Monday, after failing to agree on a six-month renewal. – Reuters
Chinese electric vehicle maker BYD plans to launch its first heavy-duty truck in Europe next year and ultimately manufacture trucks locally, a senior executive said at the IAA trade fair in Hanover on Monday. – Reuters
European leaders joined forces Monday to highlight growing competition in the Arctic, where global warming is opening new shipping routes, governments are vying for vast natural resources and a Russian military buildup is heightening security concerns. – Associated Press
France is pushing European Union member states to lift sanctions on Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov as part of a prisoner release deal with Azerbaijan, according to people familiar with the matter. – Bloomberg
NATO jets shot down an unidentified drone that flew into the Lithuanian airspace from neighboring Belarus early Tuesday, the latest incursion on the alliance’s eastern flank as aerial warfare between Ukraine and Russia intensifies. – Bloomberg
Italy could be generating nuclear electricity again by 2035, Energy Minister Gilberto Pichetto Fratin said, as a landmark bill to reverse the country’s decades-long nuclear shutdown heads for a vote in the senate. – Politico
European companies are feeling the effects of the U.S.-China trade and tech war even as the EU readies measures to reduce its dependence on China, according to a new Bertelsmann Stiftung survey seen exclusively by POLITICO ahead of its publication Monday. – Politico
European Commissioner for Trade Maroš Šefčovič will hold a videoconference with his Chinese counterpart Wang Wentao on Thursday, a Commission spokesperson confirmed to POLITICO. – Politico
Chris Bryant writes: If the upshot is Chinese automakers build more vehicles in Europe, including via joint ventures with local peers, that seems like a decent compromise. BYD and Chery are already setting up factories in Hungary and Spain, respectively. Obviously Europe still needs to tread carefully. China has ample scope to retaliate given its dominance in batteries and rare earths. But if Europe allows its industrial capabilities to be hollowed out, it won’t get them back. Even Germany is starting to recognize the status quo isn’t tenable. – Bloomberg
Jonas Nahm writes: As U.S. President Donald Trump desperately casts about for a 51st state—Canada, Greenland, and Panama all said no this past year—the European Union’s membership queue is the longest it has been in decades. Despite the Trump administration’s accusations of civilizational decline in Europe, EU accession negotiations are advancing with an urgency not seen since the bloc’s last major expansion in 2004. – Foreign Affairs
Africa
The World Food Programme’s funding for Sudan — the world’s largest hunger crisis — has fallen by about half this year, its acting head told Reuters, as war drives more people into hunger while the regional crisis raises prices and aid budgets plummet. – Reuters
Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema has reappointed Situmbeko Musokotwane as finance minister following last month’s election, a swearing-in ceremony for the new cabinet on the Southern African country’s public broadcaster showed on Monday. – Reuters
Senegalese President Bassirou Diomaye Faye will hold talks with International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva on September 15 in Washington, an IMF spokesperson said on Monday. – Reuters
World Bank President Ajay Banga said he would meet on Monday with Senegalese President Bassirou Diomaye Faye to discuss the West African country’s plans to seek a debt restructuring under the Group of 20 Common Framework. – Reuters
The Americas
Argentine President Javier Milei is preparing legislation this week to toughen sanctions against companies operating in the Falkland Islands, a move analysts say raises uncertainty over whether he may escalate tensions with Britain by targeting other sectors of the disputed islands’ economy. – Reuters
Colombia’s Congress on Monday approved the government’s 2027 spending budget of 634.9 trillion pesos ($206.6 billion), amid a sharp deterioration in public finances that is expected to push the fiscal deficit to a record high next year. – Reuters
Venezuela’s needs include rigs, pumps, valve stations, welding equipment, and other instruments, according to state-run PDVSA. That equipment is finding its way to U.S. ports from Texas, Oklahoma, Colorado and other states, in various stages of wear and tear. – Reuters
Venezuela’s acting President Delcy Rodríguez is planning to attend the United Nations General Assembly in New York next week, a visit that would mark a major step in the rapid normalization of relations between Caracas and the Trump administration, according to people familiar with the plans. – Bloomberg
North America
Canada is seeking a “unique alliance” with the European Union but is not looking to become a member, Prime Minister Mark Carney said on Sunday after the Wall Street Journal reported he was exploring whether Canada could become an “associate member” of the bloc. – Reuters
Hundreds of activists rallied in downtown Toronto on Monday, demonstrating against Prime Minister Mark Carney’s investment summit that seeks to attract interest in more than 160 mining, energy, technology and infrastructure projects. – Reuters
The European Parliament is to open an office in Canada, Parliament President Roberta Metsola announced Monday. – Politico
United States
The United States imposed new sanctions on Russia’s VTB Bank on Monday, accusing the lender of helping Iran evade Western sanctions and warning that foreign institutions that continue doing business with Russia’s second-largest bank could face additional penalties. – Reuters
The US Supreme Court refused to clear the Postal Service to enforce new restrictions on mail-in ballots for the congressional midterm elections, rebuffing the Trump administration’s request to intervene after several states launched early voting. – Bloomberg
The US Trade and Development Agency on Monday announced funding for a feasibility study on a new trans-Pacific submarine cable linking the US with Thailand and as many as five other Southeast Asian nations, as Washington seeks to expand secure digital infrastructure in the region. – Bloomberg
Cybersecurity
Among the growing fears about artificial intelligence, one threat has proved particularly alarming: the possibility that A.I. could be used to create a new wave of biological weapons. – New York Times
The European Union will propose a ban restricting under 15s from social media, video sharing platforms, AI chatbots and online games, in the most sweeping plan yet to protect children from online dangers, a European Commission document seen by Reuters shows. – Reuters
President Donald Trump said on Monday that the U.S. already has guardrails in place to regulate and prosecute AI companies, appearing to play down concerns expressed by industry leaders about the misuse of artificial intelligence harming people. – Reuters
Germany on Monday said halting the development of artificial intelligence systems was not a “viable option” for Europe, as the region’s governments responded to a call from a top tech executive to slow the AI push and devote more time to testing. – Reuters
OpenAI’s top European lobbyist is calling for the U.K. to introduce binding rules on AI developers in light of the technology’s rapidly advancing capabilities, and the risks that come with them. – Politico
Immigration and Customs Enforcement has been working this year to develop a new AI capability that it says will provide a “secure platform” for developing, testing and deploying new use cases, the agency revealed in response to a public records request. – Fedscoop
Five alleged leaders of the South African wing of Black Axe, a global cybercrime group with operations spanning dozens of countries, were extradited to the United States Friday to face multiple charges, the Justice Department said. – Cyberscoop
Researchers have uncovered new hacking tools used by the pro-Ukraine hacktivist group Hacking Cat, which has evolved from carrying out website defacements and data leaks to more sophisticated and destructive attacks on Russian targets. – The Record
Catherine Thorbecke writes: Beijing and Washington might not be able to agree on a lot when it comes to AI governance. But the WeChat episode is a sign that cross-border risk sharing is possible. AI has already changed the internet and privacy as we know it. Imagine a cyberattack that exposed every private communication you’ve ever sent and the havoc that would unleash across businesses and communities. Creating channels for researchers and companies to share what they’re seeing and flag emerging threats will inherently tame some of the race dynamics and create an opening for the harder debates. – Bloomberg
Dan Perry writes: The particulars vary. In Ireland, where data centers consumed 22% of the country’s electricity in 2024, their expansion has become entangled with energy and climate politics. Opposition in Chile has focused on water, while projects in the Netherlands have encountered environmental restrictions. Civil-rights groups in South Africa are calling for a pause in data-center expansion over electricity, water, and land. What looked like unrelated local disputes is beginning to resemble a global political phenomenon. – Washington Examiner
Anne Neuberger writes: Chinese hackers have gained and retained access to U.S. communications, energy, and transportation infrastructure. The goal of these intrusions is more than intelligence gathering; it is laying the groundwork for sabotage. Just as Iran’s closure of a vital waterway has been extremely disruptive and hard to get around, China’s penetration of critical networks could cause blackouts, make water unsafe to drink, or delay military mobilization. – Foreign Affairs
Defense
Elmet Group said on Monday one of its units had been awarded a contract worth about $2 billion by the U.S. Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) to help rebuild the National Defense Stockpile and strengthen the country’s tungsten supply chain. – Reuters
The US fired so many munitions at Iranian targets during the first few months of Operation Epic Fury that it “has resulted in strategic inventory shortfalls and revealed industrial base bottlenecks for munitions resupply,” Pentagon officials acknowledged to the Defense Department’s independent watchdog. – Bloomberg
The United States has weapons deployed in space, the US Space Force said on Monday, confirming the presence of such capabilities in orbit for the first time. – Agence-France Presse
The Navy awarded a $562 million fixed-price incentive contract to Boeing on Monday to kick off Lot 1 Low Rate Initial Production of the MQ-25A Stingray unmanned tanker, the service announced. – Defense News
The Air Force is targeting to have 500 of its first Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) robotic wingmen by 2032, Secretary of the Air Force Troy Meink said Monday. – Defensescoop
A new instruction approved by Pentagon CIO Kirsten Davies includes procedures for AI-assisted software development as the department adapts for an era of “software-defined warfare.” – Defensescoop
Elaine McCusker and Brady Africk write: When it comes to the rest of a base, stationary facilities, like command-and-control centers, can be placed underground, while concrete barriers and hardened buildings can better protect others that need to be on the surface. These practices will not replace air defenses, but as new drones and missiles make the sky more contested, modernizing protection and deception on the ground is a responsible choice. The proliferation of satellite imagery has forced militaries to hide what they can, and protect what they cannot, in places farther from front lines than ever before. On today’s battlefield, the United States has to fight like everyone’s watching. – Washington Post