Trump’s AI Exemption Isn’t an Oversight Gap. It’s a National Security Masterstroke
Washington Examiner
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Europe’s Military AI Gap Begins at Fielding
Geopolitical Monitor
America’s Drone Standards Will Travel Far Beyond America
Eurasia Review
Trump Isn’t John Lennon. That’s Why His Iran Strategy Might Actually Work
Washington Examiner
Link pending·Cited by: FDD Overnight Brief (Foundation for Defense of Democracies), excerpted in the Iran section
The Race to Write NATO’s Military AI Rulebook Has Begun
Eurasia Review
Silicon Valley Can’t Own the Pentagon’s Kill Switch
Washington Examiner
Link pending
Chokepoint Coercion in the Next Phase of the Iran Conflict
Eurasia Review
The Vulnerability of Autonomous Warfare Systems
RealClearDefense
Read on RealClearDefense ↗·Also at: Brentwood Press and Fairfield Sun Times (both via RealClearWire)·Cited by: Prosthetic Gods (technology-ethics podcast), listed among episode source materials alongside CSIS, the ICRC, and Military Review
Europe Delayed Its AI Rules Because the Institutions Were Not Ready
Eurasia Review
Zero Trust Stops at the AI
Security Boulevard
What Trump’s Record Border Numbers Are Hiding
Washington Examiner
The Human-in-the-Loop Is Becoming a Rubber Stamp. Acquisition Can Fix It.
Military AI
Six Governments Wrote One Driverless Rule, But They Kept Four Regulators
Geopolitical Monitor
From Fordow to New York: What Force Cannot Verify in Iran’s Nuclear Program
Eurasia Review
Arming Local Police With Drones. Who Pulls the Trigger?
RealClearDefense
Read on RealClearDefense ↗·Also at: The Ohio Press Network, WND, ZeroHedge, and WFMZ-TV (all via RealClearWire)
Today’s Hydra Problem: Decapitation Without Degradation
Eurasia Review
Adversaries Don’t Need a Zero-Day — They Read Your Rulebook
Dark Reading
Read on Dark Reading ↗·Also at: Waretimes (mirror, from Dark Reading)·Cited by: Berigo (Norway), a cybersecurity advisory firm attributing the term “cap weaponization” to the author
Whose Decision Was It? Drone Swarms and the Accountability Gap in Ukraine
Lieber Institute, West Point · Articles of War
America Just Did the World’s Dirty Work
Washington Examiner
The Wax Was Melting: AI Speed and the Nuclear Decision
Geopolitical Monitor
Binders Won’t Stop Bullets: When Military AI Can’t Say ‘No’
Washington Examiner
Allied Autonomy Is Creating a New Seam in Extended Deterrence
Global Security Review · National Institute for Deterrence Studies
The Iran War Began With Biden, Not Trump
Washington Examiner
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Who Yields in Orbit? Autonomous Satellites Need a Right-of-Way Rule
Eurasia Review
SATA: Sensor Attestation and Trust Anchoring: A Formally Specified, Simulation-Evaluated Continuous-Trust Protocol for Autonomous-Systems Sensor Edges
Journal of Hardware and Systems Security (Springer Nature) · Vol. 10, Art. 17 · DOI 10.1007/s41635-026-00190-4
Why We Punish the Protection That Works
Eurasia Review
America’s Allies Should Test the AI They Plan to Depend On
Geopolitical Monitor
The Next Offset Won’t Be a Smarter AI, It Will Be a Governable One
Eurasia Review
Read on Eurasia Review ↗·Also at: Europe Says (AI section, syndicated from Eurasia Review)
We Guarded China’s Oil for Free. Trump Sent Them the Bill
Washington Examiner
Two Years After CrowdStrike, We Are Still Afraid of the Wrong AI Apocalypse
Eurasia Review
The Reciprocity Inversion: How Ukraine Became the Gulf’s Counter-Drone Lifeline
Geopolitical Monitor
Read on Geopolitical Monitor ↗·Also at: Eurasia Review (syndicated July 18, 2026)
What Six Years of Drone Proliferation Means for the Next Fight
Eurasia Review
Military AI - The Confidence You Cannot See
RealClearDefense
Read on RealClearDefense ↗·Also at: The Ohio Press Network, KHQ (NonStop Local), and WFMZ-TV (via RealClearWire)
The Governance Gap Hiding in Plain Sight Across Eight Industries
Eurasia Review
Your AI Agent’s Permission Model Is Built on a Boolean. Irreversible Actions Need More Than That.
IT Ops Times
The Cruel Economics of the 19-Day Anthropic Ban
RealClearMarkets
Who Fires the Shot? Closing the Authority Gap in Indo-Pacific Autonomous Warfare
Geopolitical Monitor
Read on Geopolitical Monitor ↗·Also at: Indian Strategic Studies (curated feature, July 16, 2026); syndicated on Eurasia Review
The One Clause in Trump's AI Memo That Could Encumber the Off-Switch
RealClearDefense
When the Machine Decides and the Human Signs
The Defense Post
When the Machine Acts First: Closing the Authority Gap on the Autonomous Battlefield
Modern War Institute at West Point
Featured in UPI’s Korea Regional Review Director’s Corner
United Press International
Featured in the Parliamentary Observatory on AI of the Parliament of Catalonia
Parliament of Catalonia
Space Autonomy Needs an Authority Architecture Before 2027
The Space Review (in association with SpaceNews)
The Hour That Worked: What Midnight Hammer Teaches About AI-Era Command
Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)
Read on RUSI ↗·Also at: MERO (July 18, 2026)
When an AI Agent Fires First, Who Answers for It?
Military AI (militaryai.ai)
The Quantum Clock Is Already Ticking on America's Autonomous Arsenal
RealClearDefense
Read on RealClearDefense ↗·Also at: RealClearWire, Defense Tech and Acquisition newsletter, Indian Strategic Studies, The Ohio Press Network, Eastern Progress
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