Sorting some old papers and came across this from John Herz in 1950 on a “bipolarized and bomb-blessed world”. The paper coined the idea of a security dilemma- the notion that defensive states seeking security could make others insecure & fearful in a vicious circle.

AI experts: what new things have we learnt about the use of of AI and AI-enabled tools in war over the past two years? I see greater use of AI-enabled target generation & growing levels of deployed lethal autonomy, as well as more experimentation with decision support. What else?

'in a previous century, we had 20 bunkers with our own independent telecommunications infrastructure...And now we have said, “No, it’s actually fine.” It’s being run straight from Beijing' berthub.eu/articles/posts…

VADM Mead reporting that SSN-AUKUS will be 10,000 ton subs

That's a big boat - roughly equivalent to a Virginia Block V with the VPM.

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🇬🇧 MP George Galloway clearly finding the time in his busy schedule to present an entire 🇨🇳 state media video on Taiwan.

CGTN v pleased to say he is a serving British MP.

Will this be on his register of interests?

Syrsky was getting well ahead of himself