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// IN TODAY’S EDITION
Robot dogs help retake stadium
FAA grounds all US flights
Another car bomb hits Moscow
CIA's Mexico helper flees
Hackers hit German drone maker
| SIGACTS |
A Unitree robot dog fitted with a rifle sits on the field at Stade Sylvio Cator in Port-au-Prince after Haitian and Salvadoran forces retook the stadium from gang control. (Nayib Bukele via X)
Haiti Police, Salvadoran Troops and Armed Robot Dogs Retake Haiti's National Stadium
Haitian police and soldiers, a government task force and Salvadoran special forces jointly retook Port-au-Prince's national stadium on Thursday after two years of gang control. President Nayib Bukele said it will be a base for future offensives into gang territory.
Bukele posted footage of robot dogs with rifles mounted on their backs moving with his troops, machines El Salvador first presented in September as drug-sniffing tools. He said human remains were also found inside. READ ›
| OP-ED |
The Bywater Test
By Dino Garner, CRUCIBEL Journal
In 1925, British naval journalist and former intelligence agent Hector Bywater published a fictional account of a US-Japanese war in the Pacific so detailed that Japan's navy made it required reading for its officers. He foresaw the surprise attack, the seizure of Guam and the Philippines and the American island-hopping campaign but set the war in 1931, a decade early.
Garner argues the miss was not a flaw in Bywater's analysis. A capability study can show what a war would look like but not when it will start. Japan's date came from the 1941 US oil embargo, which put its fuel reserves on a roughly 18-month clock.
He calls the missing question the Bywater Test: what makes waiting worse than acting, and on what clock? Applied to Taiwan, the test finds no such clock today, so he urges planners to track forcing conditions, such as how much advanced chipmaking moves off the island, rather than capability alone.
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| QUICKSUM |
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The FAA grounded all US flights Friday over a communications failure at regional air traffic control centers, the first nationwide halt since January 2023. Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said there was no sign of an attack, calling it "a telecommunications outage." Read ›
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Moscow's mayor said air defenses downed 105 Ukrainian drones headed for the capital overnight, forcing flight restrictions at three Moscow-area airports. The raid followed October attacks in which Russia said more than 600 drones targeted the Moscow region in a single night. Read ›
03
A Mexican prosecutor who helped the CIA run operations in Chihuahua has fled to the US, where he is under government protection. Guillermo Zuany Portillo faces a Mexican arrest warrant, and his former boss was arrested on treason-related charges. Read ›
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A veteran of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars was identified as the suspected Russian spy arrested in Britain. The 41-year-old Army lieutenant colonel and Bronze Star recipient, based at a NATO headquarters in England, is expected to face military charges once transferred to the US. Read ›
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Hackers disguised malware as a routine update for Quantum Systems' drone mission-planning software, prompting Germany's military to ground its reconnaissance drones. The company says the file never reached the drones, which are flying again as German security agencies investigate. Read ›
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An unnamed Middle East country ordered $405 million in AeroVironment's LOCUST X3 counter-drone lasers. The company will set up a maintenance depot in the country, and the Army is already buying the laser under a production deal worth up to $464.8 million. Read ›
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