Opinion

Rise of the AI Soldiers

In just a few short years, the rapid proliferation of AI has turned what was once the stuff of dystopian sci-fi into a reality. LeBlanc argues humanoid soldiers are a natural extension of existing ...
In April 2022, when the U.S. National Guard began pulling M113 armored personnel carriers out of storage to ship to Ukraine, the reaction was fairly consistent. Veterans, active s ...
As the world’s superpowers move from a clash of ideologies to a savage “Energy War,” the long queues at Colombo’s fuel ...
Why do we find long queues at fuel stations, triggered by war thousands of miles away, despite government assurances that there was no need to panic? ..
The international divisions at Nexperia seem to hate each other so much that Chinese-Dutch international diplomacy has failed to smoothed things over.
Originally a Cold War concept that paired high‑ and low‑end manned platforms against the Soviet Union, the high–low mix has re-emerged in a new form centered on munitions rather than platforms. A ...
A 5,000-pound electric SUV on a frozen rally cross circuit sounds like a recipe for disaster, but the Polestar 4 proves that weight and ice can coexist. I didn’t expect a ...
Desperate to break China’s grip on critical minerals, the Trump administration is splashing cash around the world ...
Mikhail Gorbachev had been the leader of the Soviet Union for just 13 days when he was suddenly faced with an international crisis. On March 24, 1985, a Soviet sentry shot and killed U.S. Army Maj.
In the nearly four years since Russia’s unprovoked full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the war has repeatedly confounded expectations. A conflict that many analysts anticipated would be short and ...
Six weeks into his tenure, Mayor Zohran Mamdani has been confronted with controversies both grave and frivolous. He wisely stood by a top appointee who was facing down a media circus for tweets that ...
Amounting to essentially a death sentence, Jimmy Lai is sentenced to 20 years in prison for violating China’s national security law. What can Trump do when he meets with Xi Jinping in China later this ...