The machinery of influence
There is a particular breed of political monster that history births again and again – yet each time, the world is unprepared to recognise it. It is the leader who…
How Russia’s military uses volunteer fighters to plug gaps in Ukraine
When Russian forces withdrew from the town of Balakliia in eastern Ukraine in late 2022, pursued by Ukrainian troops and under artillery fire, they left a poorly equipped group of…
Israel deploys new military AI in Gaza war
Israel’s army has deployed some AI-enabled military technology in combat for the first time in Gaza, raising fears about the use of autonomous weapons in modern warfare. The army has…
The mean machine
The fact that a video or some other controversial material would be released and agitated prior to whenever a hearing is scheduled in cases concerning Nawaz Sharif and Maryam Safdar…
War machine
“I SPENT 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business,…
War-weary Syrians merely shrug at Trump’s military threats
For Reem, impending US-led military action against her country is unlikely to affect the flow of life in the Syrian capital. "For the past few months, we have slept amid…
Time to end the military courts
The basis of how we should judge whether a policy is working or not is to ask a simple question: “what was the original objective or purpose of this policy?”…
War machine
What does it take to win a $23 billion-a-year war? With the DoD on the brink of recommitting up to 3,900 more US soldiers to the Afghan battlefield and a…
Machines and men
The recent advances in artificial intelligence are truly mindboggling. Dr Ray Kurzweil, an authority on futuristic thinking, predicts that by 2045, “the state of singularity” will be reached and machines…
Globalisation with a military face
For some time, the populists across the world have been celebrating the “highly-exaggerated” news of the demise of globalisation, with some on the left treating it synonymously with the death…
