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		<title>Russia always works at operational depth</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2026 15:14:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[During his tenure as defense minister, Mykhailo Fedorov recognized that Ukraine needed to fight deep behind Russian lines: “Russia always works at operational depth,” he said. “This is how Russian doctrine is built; Russia essentially created the concept.” Indeed, Isserson, the Soviet deep operations theorist, wrote in 1937 that “In foreign bourgeois literature we cannot [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>No one outside the small Stanford lab knew anything about the experiment until the following summer</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2026 14:55:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The engineered plague Annie Jacobsen posits (in Biological War) is designed not only to be more virulent, more transmissible, and resistant to antibiotics, but it also has a secret back door — as originally conceived by Soviet bioweapon engineers during the Cold War: A biological weapon with “a two-strike capacity,” like a booby trap, the [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>America’s cities are, by and large, bad</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2026 17:40:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[America’s cities are, by and large, bad: The easiest way to see this is to understand the primary reason why they’re so bad: crime. The big benefit of cities for countries is that they’re economic engines of progress due to agglomeration effects: benefits and cost-savings that appear because companies, services, and workers are geographically collocated [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Pneumonic plague is a fulminant disease</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2026 15:11:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Plague has been responsible for several of the most fatal pandemics in human history, Annie Jacobsen notes (in Biological War), including ones in the sixth, fourteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries: From around 1347 to 1352, the disease killed 150 million people. Then she explains that her nightmare scenario involves a modified plague: This particular [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The missile was developed with an eye toward future conflicts in the Pacific</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 20:02:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Covenant, a U.S.-Israeli company founded in 2024, unveiled its Anthem weapon system recently: Covenant has not publicly disclosed the weapon’s range, although unconfirmed reports put it at roughly 1,200 kilometers — over 740 miles. The company is also being somewhat deliberate about how it describes Anthem, referring to it as a “deep precision-strike munition” rather [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The treaty has no protocols for enforcement</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 15:42:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Biological warfare is illegal, and biological weapons are illegal, Annie Jacobsen notes (in Biological War), yet biological weapons exist: Over 100 years ago, the international community banned the use of biological weapons with the Geneva Protocol of 1925, but by World War II, various nations were developing robust biological weapons programs, including the United States, [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The Army is planning for between 2-to-3,000 15X soldiers who will fly, fix, and deploy all sizes of drones</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2026 16:57:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Though all new soldiers who join the Army now get basic drone familiarization in basic training, those who join the 15X MOS move on to the 15-week Advanced Individual Training in Arizona, where they learn to assemble, fix, and fly a variety of small, medium, and large drones: They train to fly in contested environments, [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Nothing prevents a state from concealing a weapons program under the guise of protecting commercial secrets</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2026 15:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We may not realize until too late, Ken Alibek explains (in Biohazard), that we have become the victims of a biological attack: It is not until days or weeks after such an attack has taken place—after the first wave of deaths—that we will most likely recognize its occurrence. […] A small amount of Marburg or [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Not quite the Wilhelm scream</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2026 11:59:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you were an adult in 1995, when the original Toy Story came out, you probably had some exposure to old westerns and some exposure to old children’s shows, if only through spoofs of puppet shows or clown shows, so Woody seemed like a classic toy from a fairly recently bygone age — but kids [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Fears that the Germans would use biological munitions in their unmanned “buzz bomb” never materialized</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 14:02:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Great Britain and Canada began investigating biological agents and delivery systems in 1940, Ken Alibek explains (in Biohazard), but President Franklin D. Roosevelt didn’t establish a program until fifteen months after the United States entered World War II, in March 1943: Based on what Patrick told me of the early history of their program, Americans [&#8230;]]]></description>
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