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North Korean ‘trainees’ appear packaging Finnish-marketed pet food in Russia

Dozens of North Koreans appeared to work at a Moscow factory handling canned food for cats and dogs marketed as a Finnish brand, according to footage ...

Managed Instability: Why the Wars Against Iran and Ukraine Can Go On and On and On…

The Iran war is beginning to resemble the Ukraine war in one important way. Operationally, the wars themselves are still very different — Ukraine is a...

Christine Lagarde: Panel remarks about the European economy during a discussion on the global economic outlook at the World Economic Forum

Proving the Negative: Three Warnings from Arms Control for the Age of AI

In early 1963, a single number characterized the difference in the positions of the United States and the Soviet Union on a comprehensive nuclear test...

Indonesia’s China exercise was a judgement failure, not an alignment shift

News about an Indonesian frigate exercising with a Chinese warship 130 to 150 km east of Taiwan was always going to raise eyebrows. The exercise last ...

To win the AI rush, Australia needs expert humans

Artificial intelligence leaders think the technology might get smart enough to improve itself without human help within a year. But they’re not sure. ...

Risky Business #849 -- Trump will unleash contractors on cybercriminals

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and James Wilson are joined by guest co-host Dmitri Alperovitch to talk through the week’s news, including: Trump’s m...

US-South Korea cuts military exercise length by half after Trump’s demand

The United States and South Korea have shortened their large-scale annual military exercise and scaled back some combined field training at Washington...

North Korea is learning from war. The US–South Korea alliance must keep pace

President Donald Trump’s instruction to the Pentagon on Sunday to ‘substantially reduce’ joint military exercises with South Korea comes at a particul...

Balochistan's Insurgency Is Turning Security into a Development Cost

Pakistan counts militants killed to the digit. It does not routinely measure whether goods can still move through Balochistan.

China understands the power of AI. Understand Chinese AI with ASPI’s AI Under Heaven

China’s leadership recognised nearly a decade ago that AI is power. It gives militaries an edge, economies access to fast-track development, and gover...

How Feasible Is a European Nuclear Deterrent Without Washington?

In 2025, James Cameron wrote, “Eurodeterrent: A Vision for an Anglo-French Nuclear Force,” where he argued the United Kingdom and France should cooper...