The Dogs of (Urban) War: Lessons from the IDFs' Specialized Canine Unit(mwi.westpoint.edu)

7 points by jspencer508 1 year ago | 0 comments

A Clausewitzian lens on modern urban warfare(mwi.westpoint.edu)

57 points by bryanrasmussen 1 year ago | 112 comments

Confusion, uncertainty in industry as Army contracts seemingly halted(breakingdefense.com)

34 points by KnuthIsGod 1 year ago | 38 comments

Silicon Valley is transforming the military-industrial complex? (2024)(costsofwar.watson.brown.edu)

157 points by paimapi 1 month ago | 315 comments

The strait of Hormuz blockade will strangle US defense industry(theguardian.com)

28 points by mitchbob 7 months ago | 14 comments

America's nuclear arsenal to cost $946B over next decade(breakingdefense.com)

20 points by geox 1 year ago | 13 comments

The West forgot how to make things, now it’s forgetting how to code(techtrenches.dev)

1039 points by milkglass 6 months ago | 713 comments

Substack essay comparing the West's loss of defense manufacturing capacity to declining junior software engineer hiring and the erosion of coding skills.

How the Military Will Hack the Election(kenklippenstein.com)

127 points by pavel_lishin 11 days ago | 53 comments

Ken Klippenstein Substack article reporting on Task Force Raider's role in the 2026 US elections and military officers' unease about it.

Building supercomputers for autocrats probably isn't good for democracy(helentoner.substack.com)

370 points by rbanffy 1 year ago | 192 comments

Helen Toner's Substack essay criticizing OpenAI's Stargate UAE project and the framing of building AI supercomputers for autocratic governments.

The anti-abundance critique on housing is wrong(derekthompson.org)

474 points by rbanffy 1 year ago | 717 comments

Derek Thompson Substack essay arguing that antitrust critics blaming homebuilder monopolies for America's housing problems are wrong.

We Will Not Be Divided(notdivided.org)

2524 points by BloondAndDoom 8 months ago | 787 comments

An open letter opposing the Department of War's threats to invoke the Defense Production Act against Anthropic and label it a supply chain risk over its AI usage red lines.

Why I'm still bearish on LLMs after Navier-Stokes(dank.systems)

426 points by jaykru 1 month ago | 552 comments

Personal blog essay by Jay Kruer arguing LLMs remain overhyped despite headline results like Navier-Stokes, citing poor generalization, reward hacking, and specification costs.