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2 September 2023

Another Leap Forward: India’s Historic Moon Landing and the Space Competition Underway

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Kari A. Bingen Source Link Indian lunar lander Chandrayaan-3 successfully touched down on the lunar surface on August 23, 2023, making Ind...

India’s surging food prices are a problem not just for India

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Source Link To taste the effects of inflation in India, visit a fast-food restaurant. Sandwiches at Subway no longer come with a free cheese...

Race for Green Metals Goes to South Asia

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ARIF RAFIQ Source Link This month, China became the first country to designate an ambassador to Taliban-ruled Afghanistan , marking a step...

Xi Jinping to Skip G20 Summit in New Delhi, Chinese Premier Li Qiang to Attend Instead

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The Wire Staff Source Link New Delhi: Close on the heels of speculation that Chinese president Xi Jinping may be giving the G20 meet hosted ...

Russia will struggle to salvage the Wagner empire

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Dimitar Bechev Source Link It took Russian President Vladimir Putin some 24 hours to break his silence on the reported death of Yevgeny Pri...

The dawn of the Brics World Order: India is losing ground to Russia and China

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THOMAS FAZI Source Link Last week’s Brics summit was supposed to herald the dawn of a new world order. It would announce the end of the Amer...

With No Good Options, China’s Xi Jinping Turns Up The Temperature In The Taiwan Strait

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CHUCK DEVORE Source Link China’s supreme leader, Xi Jinping, can’t be happy right now with his mounting troubles at home and abroad. The nat...

China is doing everything it can to conceal the true extent of its economic turmoil

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Linette Lopez Source Link China's economy is turning into a big black blob. This transformation means that while the country's econo...

What will replace Russia’s Wagner mercenary army?

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Mansur Mirovalev Source Link Kyiv, Ukraine – The Kremlin says it is at odds about the future of the Wagner Group, Russia’s largest and most...

What night-time lighting tells us about Tibet's prisons and detention centres

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Source Link Introduction Authorities in Tibet are engaging in preventive repression towards their population. As part of their nationwide ...

As Hurricane Idalia moves inward, another storm brews off East Coast

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TARA SUTER Source Link As Hurricane Idalia passed through Florida on its way to Georgia on Wednesday, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) w...

Satisfaction with quality of K-12 education falls to record low

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LEXI LONAS Source Link Americans’ satisfaction with the K-12 education system has tied for a record low at the start of the 2023-24 school y...

War, Ukraine and Adaptation

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MICK RYAN Source Link Frequent readers of my work, here at Futura Doctrina or in my other publications such as my 2022 book, War Transforme...

Taiwan Cannot Win if the U.S. Does Not Help Strengthen Taipei’s Will to Fight

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Julian Spencer-Churchill Source Link Taiwan will not be able to resist a Chinese invasion without first resolving a paralyzing political cri...

Geopolitical Own Goal: How Putin Came to NATO’s Aid

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Timothy Hopper Source Link Russian President Vladimir Putin has always warned about the eastward expansion of NATO and cited concerns about ...

BRICS expansion is a big win for China. But can it really work as a counterweight to the West?

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Nectar Gan Source Link When leaders of the BRICS nations gathered for group photos at the end of their summit in Johannesburg last week, it ...

The Biden Administration’s Bad Bet on Venezuelan Oil

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Gerardo E. Suarez Source Link As the United State’s economic turmoil has subsided in recent months, President Joe Biden has seen some good p...

BRICS Expansion Is No Triumph for China

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C. Raja Mohan Source Link Those who believe that the world is moving to a post-Western global order saw their belief confirmed last week. At...

Escaping Attrition: Ukraine Rolls the Dice

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BIG SERGE Source Link It has been a while since I published anything long-form commenting on the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian War, and I confess ...

Why Tribalism Took Over Our Politics

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Aaron Zitner Source Link Ahead of his arrest on Thursday in Georgia, Donald Trump repeatedly told his supporters about the legal peril he ...

Planning Ethical Influence Operations: A Framework for Defense Information Professionals

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Christopher Paul Source Link U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) efforts to plan and conduct influence operations in an ethical manner face sev...

Episode 143 — Decoding China’s AI Ambitions: The Rise of Informationized and Intelligentized Warfare

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John “Slick” Baum Source Link In Episode 143 of the Aerospace Advantage, Decoding China’s AI Ambitions: The Rise of Informationized and Inte...

It Costs Just $400 to Build an AI Disinformation Machine

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WILL KNIGHT Source Link IN MAY, SPUTNIK International, a state-owned Russian media outlet, posted a series of tweets lambasting US foreign p...

ChatGPT offers 'business' version of artificial intelligence amid declining popularity

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Timothy Nerozzi Source Link Artificial intelligence development firm OpenAI has announced a business version of its popular ChatGPT bot. The...

The Executive’s Guide To Quantum Computing: What you need to know for your strategy today

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BOB GOURLEY Source Link This guide captures key concepts and the status of major quantum computing research initiatives in a way meant to se...

Deterring Russia and Iran: Improving Effectiveness and Finding Efficiencies

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Jeffrey Martini Source Link The United States makes significant investments in military activities that are intended to deter Russian and Ir...
1 September 2023

China Goes Underground In Aksai Chin - What It Means For Indian Forces

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Vishnu Som Source Link New Delhi: Sixty kilometres east of the Depsang Plains in Northern Ladakh, Chinese forces have begun carving tunnels ...

India’s Universities Lack the Freedom to Excel

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MILAN VAISHNAV Source Link The abrupt resignation of an economics professor from a prestigious private university has highlighted concerns ...

Can Economic Ties Continue to Power China-US Relations?

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Shannon Tiezzi Source Link From August 27-30, U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo was in Beijing and Shanghai for talks with her Chinese c...

Why the South China Sea Could Be the Flashpoint That Starts World War III

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KYLE MIZOKAM Source Link The South China Sea , famous for its commerce, abundant fishing grounds, and massive oil and natural gas reservoir...

The Case for Negotiating with Russia

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Keith Gessen Source Link If you want to hear a different perspective on the war in Ukraine, talk to Samuel Charap. A fine-featured Russia a...

Prigozhin RIP, Or Do the Best You Can

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George Friedman Source Link Wagner Group boss Yevgeny Prigozhin is dead. He died of a fatal dose of self-confidence. He made three mistakes....

New Friends Changed My Mind About Ukraine

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Dave Seminara Source Link Pekka Veteläinen and Anna Saarela are tough Finns who heat their home with firewood and make a living off Russian ...

Pentagon bets on quick production of autonomous systems to counter China

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CONNOR O’BRIEN Source Link The Pentagon is about to make a huge bet that it can field thousands of autonomous systems within two years — an...

Russia Is Poised To Upend The ‘Diplomatic Chessboard’ In Ukraine

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John Bolton Source Link In recent months, Russia has seen considerable political turmoil, but there has been little change on the battlefie...