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Top U.S. Diplomat Lands In Ukraine Amid Fears Of Imminent Russian Invasion (RFE RL)

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken landed in Kyiv on January 19 in a show of support amid mounting fears that a Russian invasion...

US probing Alibaba cloud unit for security risks: Sources (Al Jazeera)

The Biden administration is reviewing e-commerce giant Alibaba’s cloud business to determine whether it poses a risk to the United States’ national security, according...

Sri Lanka’s dilemma: Pay off debt or pay for milk, meds and gas (Rehana Thowfeek, Al Jazeera)

A lone bullock cart carrying a barrel of Kerosene, a symbol of life in Sri Lanka in the 1970s, is once again a common...

Sri Lanka leader vows to fix ‘misconceptions’ over rights record (Al Jazeera)

Sri Lanka’s president has promised to change “misconceptions” of his country’s human rights record, following years of international criticism over wartime atrocities and extrajudicial killings. Government troops...

New Report Offers Glimpse Of How AI Will Remake Spywork (Patrick Tucker, Defense One)

Unless the intelligence community changes the way it defines intelligence and adopts cloud computing, it will wind up behind adversaries, private interests, and even...

Declassified Report Details Afghan Air Force Reliance on Contractors (Marcus Weisgerber, Defense One)

A newly declassified report that warned the Afghan Air Force would collapse without U.S. support underscores the military’s reliance on contractors to operate and maintain sophisticated...

As Climate Change Threatens China, PLA Is Missing in Action (Thomas Corbett, Peter W. Singer, Defense One)

As climate change forces the world’s militaries to adapt to new security conditions and ponder their own carbon footprints, the People’s Liberation Army has...

Head of US Air Force’s space research will help design the Space Force’s satellite constellations (Courtney Albon, Defense News)

The head of the Air Force Research Laboratory’s space initiatives is taking a new job with the Space Force where he’ll help design the...

Amphib ship requirements study could spell bad news for Marines, industry (Megan Eckstein, Defense News)

A study on amphibious warship requirements that will help inform upcoming budgets is looking less likely to yield the results the U.S. Marine Corps...

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