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Nine major U.S. banks have been found to have debanked Americans for holding views not acceptable to the anti-American ideology of progressivism. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) released a report exposing the unconstitutional, and possibly criminal actions.

The nine banks listed were: BMO Bank, Capital One, Citibank, JPMorgan Chase Bank, PNC Bank, TD Bank, U.S. Bank, and Wells Fargo Bank. These debankings happened between 2010 and 2025, meaning they continued after Trump took office.

Trump admin. report finds 9 major banks discriminated against conservatives – One America News Network
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The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) released a report after finding that the nine largest banks it supervises discriminated against conservatives, religious organizations and lawful businesses.

The report, released Wednesday, examined bank policies between 2020 and late 2025 that denied financial services based on political, religious or social views.

The OCC’s supervisory review was conducted in compliance with President Donald Trump’s executive order (EO), “Guaranteeing Fair Banking for All Americans,” which directs regulators to investigate whether banks have policies or practices that encourage politically or religiously motivated debanking — abruptly closing an account or cutting off financial services.

The nine banks found to have shown bias against certain customers are: Bank of America, BMO Bank, Capital One, Citibank, JPMorgan Chase Bank, PNC Bank, TD Bank, U.S. Bank, and Wells Fargo Bank. Its investigation involved reviewing nearly 100,000 complaints to OCC-regulated institutions, as well as 50,000 documents consisting of approximately 420,000 pages about the banks’ policies, procedures, practices, and customer decisions.

“Today’s report provides irrefutable evidence that the nation’s largest banks have denied, debanked and discriminated against customers and lawful businesses,” said Comptroller of the Currency Jonathan Gould. “Americans should have access to financial services regardless of their beliefs, affiliations, or political views. Fair access to financial services is not a mantra—it is a mandate. The Trump administration is committed to ending the weaponization of finance against hardworking Americans, once and for all.”

The progressive pit bull special prosecutor Jack Smith was spying on far more than the GOP leadership, including President Trump; he was also spying on over half a million Americans.

Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Chuck Grassley claimed, “This update shows that Jack Smith and the Biden Justice Department collected incredibly invasive donor data — and voter data — beyond what could conceivably be necessary for Smith or his team to fulfill the Special Counsel’s mandate. The new findings further corroborate that Smith and his partisan team aimed to map out the entire Republican Party apparatus.”

Jack Smith Nabbed 639K GOPers’ Personal Data In Arctic Frost– thefederalist.com
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Former Special Counsel Jack Smith seized the personal information of at least 639,000 Republican voters, donors, and supporters as part of his Arctic Frost lawfare against Donald Trump, according to newly reviewed federal whistleblower disclosures.

“This update shows that Jack Smith and the Biden Justice Department collected incredibly invasive donor data — and voter data — beyond what could conceivably be necessary for Smith or his team to fulfill the Special Counsel’s mandate. The new findings further corroborate that Smith and his partisan team aimed to map out the entire Republican Party apparatus,” said Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa.

Grassley revealed the bombshell discovery in a memo sent to his Senate Judiciary colleagues on Wednesday. In addition to recapping some of his staff’s findings on Smith’s intrusive inquiry thus far, the Iowa Republican noted that newly reviewed subpoenas issued by Smith’s team show how the special counsel’s lawfare was more expansive than originally thought.

According to Grassley, Smith’s team and the Biden Justice Department “obtained spreadsheets containing Republican campaign donors, supporters, and detailed personal voter information in various formats, totaling over 639,000 individuals, at minimum.” “Out of those,” the chairman wrote, “over 148,000 rows are identified in the spreadsheets as donors.”

The type of data Smith and Co. acquired as a result of these spreadsheets was vast. Not only did they purportedly obtain these Republicans’ names, addresses, and dates of birth, but also their email addresses, occupations and employers, congressional and state legislative districts, and whether they’re officially registered as Republicans. Information on how much these Republicans donated, their credit card information (“including last four digits of credit card numbers”), and “donor analysis data (such as one-time versus recurring donations and the amount of the donation)” was also acquired.

A recent suggestion by Harvard that it should do more to get conservative professors hired was met with stiff resistance from progressive professors. Over 95% of Harvard’s professors are self-identifying progressives.

Progressive alumni joined in the resistance, with one alumnus claiming, “Even supposing that [silencing] takes place, how would the hiring of conservative faculty act as a countervailing force? Surely such hiring may inhibit viewpoint diversity rather than nurture it.”

Harvard leftists oppose plan to hire conservative professors for viewpoint diversity– www.lifesitenews.com
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(LifeSiteNews) – Leftists at Harvard University are pushing back against the institution’s efforts to hire conservative professors to increase viewpoint diversity among the faculty of the infamously left-wing school.

Back in April, the Harvard Crimson reported that the university has been soliciting donors for a $10 million endowment for dozens of new professorships to be filled by conservatives across various departments. The effort was said to be spearheaded by Harvard Provost John F. Manning, a conservative legal scholar.

Now, the Washington Times reports that the plan has been facing resistance from liberal professors and teachers, who comprise 69 percent of the faculty. Forty-seven percent faculty members said they were opposed to the plan and 31 percent supported it, according to a survey.

“The answer is not partisan quotas, but a credible commitment to intellectual openness and hiring excellent scholars across a genuinely broad range of perspectives,” claimed political scientist Daniel Schatz. 

“Even supposing that [silencing] takes place, how would the hiring of conservative faculty act as a countervailing force? Surely such hiring may inhibit viewpoint diversity rather than nurture it,” argued Harvard graduate Dominique Padurano, founder and president of college counseling company Crimson Coaching.

Anthropic has announced plans to implement a new governance policy for users of its AI agent, Claude. The change of policy would eventually block users from using Claude who are consistently “mean” to Claude.

They claim the rule will be enforced selectively, “only in extreme cases, where users repeatedly act cruelly toward our models, with no discernible purpose.”

Anthropic Wants You to Be Kind to Claude– www.thenation.com
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…even as AI courts serial real-world disasters, defaces the environment with data centers, and is not about to return your empathy in kind.

A phone displaying the logo for Anthropic’s Javascript property, Bun, brandished before a display of logos for the company’s chatbot, Claude.(Harun Ozalp / Anadolu via Getty Images)

So now it’s against the rules to be mean to Claude. Last week, chatbot-maker Anthropic quietly announced that it was prohibiting what the company called “sustained and needless abusive or cruel behavior toward our models.” This ban wouldn’t apply, the company stressed, toward normal outbursts of frustration directed at a tool known for feeding its users hallucinated bullshit, as all chatbots do from time to time. The rule would be enforced “only in extreme cases, where users repeatedly act cruelly toward our models, with no discernible purpose”; what’s more, company flacks said, the disciplinary action in most cases would only result in Claude shutting down the conversation, which is something Claude was already doing anyway. Why on earth someone might get their jollies from endlessly abusing their fake computer friend was not addressed.

In response to the Anthropic announcement, the Internet did what the Internet does. On X, investment guru Joseph Carlson declared that “Claude, like every AI, has zero moral agency. It doesn’t make decisions, it has no feelings, it’s not sentient. Being rude to Claude is like being rude to a chair, or a desk.… you do infinitely more damage to a sentient being stepping on an ant than you do being rude to AI.” On Bluesky, sociologist Tressie McMillan Cottom suggested that yelling at Claude was like “cussing out [a] tractor…. you don’t have to hand it to Anthropic because it’s weird to talk mean to its talking word toaster. It’s not real.”

UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham has telegraphed his next major move, setting up an election with Brexit on the chopping block. He is leading an international effort to paint Britain’s choice to leave the EU as a Russian-manipulated outcome, justifying a revisiting of the question. He accused Russia of meddling not only with the 2026 vote, but with other European elections as well.

UK and EU confirm date of summit after Burnham says Russian meddling shows the need for closer ties– abcnews.com
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LONDON — Russia’s attempts to meddle in European politics show why Britain must forge a closer relationship with the European Union, Prime Minister Andy Burnham said Monday, arguing that “the status quo is not good enough.”

Burnham said that attempts by Russia to interfere in democratic votes across Europe, including Britain’s 2016 EU membership referendum, highlight the importance of strengthening the U.K.’s links with its neighbors, years after they were weakened by Brexit.

He told lawmakers in the House of Commons that it would be “a dereliction of duty” not to seek stronger ties with the 27-nation bloc that the U.K. left in 2020.

The statement comes after Burnham told the Labour Party’s annual conference last month that “Brexit has done more harm than good” and that the bare-bones trade deal Britain has with the EU is holding the country back. He said he will seek political consensus on a new relationship, with future options including rejoining the bloc.

Parents who dared speak out against progressive policies in American public schools were tracked and harassed by the FBI. If you dared go to a school board meeting and speak out against pro-transgender policies, or gay porn in school libraries, Biden’s FBI viewed you as a national security risk.

U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon stated, “Under the Biden Administration, parents were the enemy. They were labeled as terrorists, targeted, and investigated by a government weaponized against them. That era is over. The Trump Administration is acting with unprecedented energy and purpose to restore parents’ natural rights as the primary protectors of their children.”

Weaponization Report: The Biden DOJ’s Targeting of Outspoken Parents Was Worse Than Anyone Thought– www.standingforfreedom.com
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Attorney General Merrick Garland and others ignored stark warnings from the DOJ’s own attorneys against sending the FBI to investigate concerned parents who opposed leftist school policies as potential domestic terrorists.


In a scathing new report, the Department of Justice’s Weaponization Working Group concluded that the Biden administration worked together with the National School Boards Association (NSBA) in 2021 to target parents who opposed local school board policies and ignored warnings from their own attorneys that their actions were political and likely a blatant violation of the Constitution.

The 273-page report, released on  Monday, comes five years after the DOJ labeled parents expressing their free speech as potential domestic terrorists. At that time, parents were increasingly frustrated over policies governing COVID, teaching Critical Race Theory (CRT) and other Marxist ideas, and boys in girls’ sports and private spaces. They were voicing these concerns, often loudly and in large numbers, at school board meetings, as well as in writing.

In response, the NSBA sent a letter to President Biden claiming that schools and education leaders were “under an immediate threat” from parents who were participating in the equivalent of “domestic terrorism and hate crimes” and committing “acts of malice, violence, and threats” against school board members, school staff, and students and asking for “immediate assistance” to protect schools, school board members, and educators. It suggested that charges could be brought under a slew of federal terrorism and hate crime laws, including the Patriot Act and the Conspiracy Against Rights statute.

A new document drop by the White House Government Transparency Task Force has revealed “special prosecutor” Jack Smith was spying on almost everyone in the Trump inner circle, including his lawyers. He did this by monitoring the phone of the President’s key administrative organizer and coordinator, Susie Wiles. She is currently President Trump’s Chief of Staff.

BOMBSHELL: Jack Smith Tracked Trump Lawyers by Monitoring Susie Wiles’ Phone– wltreport.com
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A bombshell new document drop has revealed shocking new information about the lengths former special counsel Jack Smith’s team went to in order to surveil President Trump’s 2024 campaign.

According to new memos obtained by the White House Government Transparency Task Force, FBI agents used a pen register and trap-and-trace device in order to monitor President Trump’s Chief of Staff Susie Wiles’ phone.

By doing so, they were able to track communications with President Trump’s defense lawyers, campaign staff, and at least five journalists.

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HOLY SMOKES. Jack Smith’s team TRACKED the calls of Trump’s defense lawyers by monitoring Susie Wiles’ phone, per newly declassified FBI memos reported by Just The News

Smith’s team also SECRETLY met with disgraced CIA Chief John Brennan and the meeting notes were left blank.

The memos show FBI agents used a pen register on Wiles’ phone from at least February to May 2023, logging her calls and texts with at least 21 Trump lawyers, campaign staff, and at least FIVE journalists

FBI field agents wrote that they did NOT believe there was probable cause for the Mar-a-Lago raid, but DOJ pushed ahead anyway 😡

THIS IS A MASSIVE VIOLATION

Jack Smith is a deep state criminal who should face prosecution!

Under the guise of “education reform,” which is mostly demanding more resources and creating policies aligned with the Progressive-Islamist alliance, riots across France in most major cities continue unabated. So far, more than 5,000 people have been arrested.

France Youth Riots Manipulated by Far-Left Mélenchon Party: Paris Police– www.breitbart.com
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A report from the Paris Police’s intelligence branch has reportedly found that radical presidential candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s far-left La France Insoumise party instigated the youth riots which plunged much of the country into chaos this week.

Over 5,000 people were arrested this week as mayhem broke out around the so-called student actions at over a thousand high schools across France, in which multicultural youths ran roughshod, engaging in mindless destruction and wanton violence, including attacks on police and innocent bystanders, arson, and vandalism

According to Interior Minister Laurent Nunez, some 85 per cent of the arrests made during the riots were under the age of 18.

However, a report from the Paris Police Prefect claimed that other forces were likely pulling the strings behind the scenes, finding that “the origins of the movement clearly lie in the manipulation of student union structures and political movements close to the far left.”

The report, obtained by Le Figaro, claimed that members of political organisations such as the Young Revolutionary Communists and the La France Insoumise (LFI/France in Rebellion) party of Jean-Luc Mélenchon may have a “strategy of igniting unrest on the part of the most radical union and political structures to impose their ideas as national elections approach.”

While the students largely displayed “a clear desire for disorder, notably through the commission of urban violence, without any specific social demands,” the police report said that “clearly, high school students are being pushed into these actions by far-left elements identified both within student union structures at Paris 8 University (Le Poing levé, FSE), or Paris Nanterre (FSE).”

The FBI caught another wanna-be terrorist before they could act by first seemingly enabling their actions. Sheikhdoon Abdullahi Mohamud, an 18-year-old Somali-American, was arrested and accused of plotting to kill Americans in the Mall of America using an AK-47 and 200 rounds of ammo. The teen purchased the inert AK-47 from the FBI. This is how the arrest was made.

The DOJ released a statement that, in part, exclaimed, “The FBI rendered the AK-47 rifle inert prior to the transaction. During the sale of the firearm and ammunition, Mohamud reaffirmed his plan to use the firearm and ammunition to shoot people at the Mall of America”

Teen wannabe ISIS terrorist plotted to slaughter dozens of non-Muslims at Mall of America, FBI says– www.theblaze.com
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An 18-year-old man allegedly paid $600 in exchange for an AK-47 and 200 rounds of ammunition before getting arrested by agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Sheikhdoon Abdullahi Mohamud allegedly plotted a terrorist attack on non-Muslims at the Mall of America for two years, according to U.S. Attorney Daniel Rosen.

‘This was a radicalized young man who needed to be watched.’

The suspect believed he was purchasing the items for his attack from a member of the ISIS terrorist group, but the person was in fact an undercover FBI agent.

California Woman Arrested on Charges Alleging She Acted as Agent of China – finchannel
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 Wanying Zhang, 34, also known as Heather Zhang, of Irvine, California, was arrested Sunday on a one count complaint charging her with acting in the United States as an unregistered agent of the government of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), including by conducting surveillance on family members of a high-ranking Taiwanese government official.

“The central allegation here — that Zhang, at the behest of the People’s Republic of China, covertly surveilled relatives of a high-ranking foreign government official in the United States — is deeply troubling,” said Assistant Attorney General for National Security John A. Eisenberg.  “The National Security Division and U.S. Attorney’s Offices, along with the FBI and other law enforcement partners, will remain vigilant against threats like this on our soil.”

“Protecting our national security means confronting foreign governments that engage in covert operations in our nation,” said First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli for the Central District of California. “Ms. Zhang is charged with acting at the direction of Chinese government officials to spy on the family of a senior Taiwanese official here in the United States. She violated our laws and will be held accountable in our courts. We will aggressively investigate and prosecute illegal foreign operations on American soil.”

Hamas supporters in London decided to march on the 3rd anniversary of the October 7 slaughter of innocent Israelis by the organization they are marching for. The march was not seen as racist by British police, despite it clearly sending a message to the Jews that they’re next. It is an embrace of the slaughter of the Jewish race, nothing more.

Pro-Palestine university groups march in London on October 7 anniversary | Gaza– www.aljazeera.com
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Pro-Palestine students took to the streets of London on October 7, despite police calls to postpone the march. Al Jazeera’s @Lina_Serene reports.

Poll: 1 In 5 Undergrads Says U.S. Deserved 9/11– thefederalist.com
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Just weeks after the United States commemorated the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorists attacks, a new poll reveals more than one in five undergraduate students believe America deserved the attacks, while nearly half of all undergraduate students think physical violence is justified to stop so-called hate speech.

The Buckley Institute’s 2026 National Undergraduate Student Survey polled 803 American undergraduate students between September 5 and 14.

A shocking 22 percent agreed that America deserved 9/11, including 28 percent of liberal students. Notably, leftist streamer Hasan Piker — who campaigned with Michigan Democrat Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed and cozies up to New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani — has said America deserved 9/11. Meanwhile, Aber Kawas, a Democratic Socialist of America member and nominee for the New York state Senate, has said that America brought on 9/11 because of capitalism, alleged white supremacy and racism, and alleged Islamophobia.

The poll also found that 45 percent of American college students believe physical violence can be justified to stop hate speech — among which 54 percent of liberals agree compared to 30 percent of conservatives.

“Interestingly, 72% of those who agree that physical violence can be justified to stop hate speech also agree that hate speech is protected by the First Amendment,” The Buckley Institute found.

Thanks in large part to great efforts by progressive-controlled government schools promoting Islam and excoriating Christianity, a new poll reveals 4 in 10 young Americans have a favorable view of Sharia, Islamic Law. The poll indicts the public education system, which has fallen to insurrectionist progressives that are more aligned with Chairman Mao and Osama Bin Laden than they are with George Washington and Jesus Christ.

Shock Poll: 4 In 10 Young Americans Support Sharia Law– gellerreport.com
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Shocking, but after twenty-five years of whitewashing and proselytizing for Islam, hardly surprising. Since September 11, criticism of jihad terrorism and sharia has been treated as the scandal, while the abuses themselves are buried beneath euphemisms and accusations of bigotry. Now comes the headline: four in ten young Americans support sharia law.

Creed apartheid. Gender apartheid. Death fatwas. Child marriage. Female genital mutilation. The persecution and slaughter of non-Muslims. These horrors deserve exposure and condemnation. Instead, candid discussion is silenced, critics are vilified, and repression is repackaged as tolerance. A generation taught to mistake censorship for compassion is now embracing a system that crushes the freedoms it takes for granted.

Poll: 4 In 10 Young Americans Support Sharia Law
By: Sarah Lee, The Federalist,

‘Groups perceived as marginalized are often treated sympathetically without much scrutiny of what those groups or their belief systems actually teach.’

A set of polls released this week by Our Republic and Rasmussen show a concerning trend among American youth, especially in light of recently revealed immigration numbers under Biden: A quarter of 18-35 voters polled would support a community implementing Sharia law as the legal code for the entire town, city, or state if the majority of residents living there desired its adoption.

Additionally, according to the Our Republic poll:

Overall, 21% of likely voters said they have a mostly or somewhat positive opinion of sharia, compared with 57% who have a negative opinion. Positive views were much higher among younger Americans, including 43% of voters ages 18–24 and 39% of those ages 25–29.

More and more Spaniards are joining the growing national protests against Spain’s policies of open borders and the state-financed invasion by Islamists intending to destroy their national identity. The pressure is mounting on the regime in power, the progressives under their current Prime Minister, Pedro Sanchez, who rules thanks to a coalition of leftists.

His own party fared worse than the pro-Spanish party in the last election (which finished first but was kept out of power by the far-left coalition). Now, Sanchez must call a Snap election before any hope of winning another election (if he even makes it to that point) dies as the resistance to his Spain-hating policies grows.

Spain’s PM Sanchez calls snap election after housing crisis protests– www.cnbc.com
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Dawn breaks over Puerta del Sol, where more than 1,000 tents have been set up over the past week in front of the Presidency of the Community of Madrid as part of protests against housing speculation and evictions.

Marcos Del Mazo | Lightrocket | Getty Images

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez called a snap election for Nov. 29 on Monday after Congress rejected measures intended to quell public anger over the country’s housing crisis.

Tens of thousands took to the streets over the weekend in protests that involved clashes with police in some areas.

Discontent has mounted following the September eviction of an 87-year-old disabled woman from her home of 70 years, with protesters camping out in central Madrid.

Sánchez, who has clashed with U.S. President Donald Trump, leads a fragile left-wing coalition formed in November 2023.

President Trump held an AI summit at the White House where he and tech leaders from Elon Musk to Mark Zuckerberg agreed to self-govern their roll-out of AI.

The President has held that holding back AI will allow China to dominate us, and that includes militarily. The move appears intended to ward off any legislative efforts to limit AI. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-AR) appeared to cosign the agreement, claiming “The super intelligence providers are committed to building trust as they help us build the future.”

Trump, Tech Leaders Sign White House Accord on ‘Super Intelligence’ › American Greatness– amgreatness.com
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President Donald Trump and some of the world’s most prominent technology executives signed the White House Accord on Super Intelligence on Tuesday, establishing voluntary standards aimed at oversight, transparency and accountability as the industry rapidly develops advanced technology.

The agreement came the same day Trump signed an executive order officially rebranding artificial intelligence as “Super Intelligence.”

House Speaker Mike Johnson unveiled the accord outside the West Wing alongside executives including xAI’s Elon Musk, Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, Anthropic’s Dario Amodei and Nvidia’s Jensen Huang. The announcement followed a private luncheon attended by Trump, Johnson, Cabinet officials and technology leaders.

“The super intelligence providers are committed to building trust as they help us build the future,” Johnson said, adding that the executives were prepared to “take accountability and ownership.”

Johnson described the agreement as a voluntary statement of principles establishing expectations for “robust internal controls and layers of internal and external review.” He said Congress and the White House would continue working to guide the industry’s development in a safe manner.

Trump compared the accord to a constitution and praised the executives for coming together.

“They love our country, they love the world,” Trump said. “And they came together, and they did something … it’s almost like a constitution in a way.”

China might win some relief from Trump’s tariffs after President Trump met with Chairman Xi at the White House. The state visit produced little significant results outside of a promise to reduce tariffs on both sides and the President allegedly offering to sell arms to China. The President also made it clear to Xi that China should not attempt to help Iran, though no clear consequence was offered should China do so.

Triumph or Procrastination? Experts Split on the Trump-Xi Summit– warontherocks.com
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Over the better part of three days, President Donald Trump hosted Chinese President Xi Jinping in Washington for a summit that drew international attention for its high-stakes agenda, from trade and AI to Taiwan. While some experts saw the summit as an exercise in kicking the can down the road on major issues, others emphasized the significance of Trump treating Xi as an equal on the world stage.

An attack on a UK Airbase that also hosts American forces was stopped by British authorities. Five Islamist men were arrested and promptly released on bail. Now, the U.S. and the UK are claiming Iran is behind the attacks. Given Iran’s promise to attack British airbases, it is no surprise such a deduction was made. The President has called the UK’s handling of this attack inadequate.

UK PM Burnham: ‘Strong Indications’ Iran is Linked to RAF Fairford Plot– legalinsurrection.com
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United Kingdom Prime Minister Andy Burnham told the BBC that the government believes Iran had a part in whatever plan the five men wanted to execute at the RAF Fairford air base.

“There are strong indications that Iran played a part in what happened over the weekend at RAF Fairford,” the prime minister said.

The last of any U.S. military presence in Iraq left the country this week, leaving Iran’s proxy militias an opportunity to gain influence. In addition to fears of Iran’s rise in influence, ISIS continues to remain present, capable of making another run at a caliphate.

Fears of ISIS resurgence in Iraq as US forces pull out from last bases– www.thesun.co.uk
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FEARS are mounting of an ISIS resurgence as a US-led coalition formed to fight marauding jihadists is pulling out of Iraq.

Footage shows a convoy of US tanks leaving Iraqi Kurdistan earlier today, marking the official end of Operation Inherent Resolve – after 12 years in the Middle Eastern country.

US soldiers set up security after landing in the desert at the start of Operation Diablo X in the City of Baghdaddi on September 21, 2005 Credit: Getty
Fighters from the Hashed al-Shaabi, backing the Iraqi forces, pose in front of a mural depicting the emblem of the Islamic State on October 5, 2017, after retaking the city Credit: AFP

And the remaining 2,500 troops have now left the territory, giving some hope to Iraqis.

But security experts warn that the withdrawal could give Iran and its allies free rein, while also allowing a comeback for ISIS.

“Iran stands to benefit strategically from the coalition’s departure because it removes a military presence that for years acted as a counterweight to Iran’s influence in Iraq,” said Jasim al-Bahadli, an Iraqi security analyst.

Just ahead of the midterms, President Donald Trump’s approval rating hit an all-time low at just 32%. This is according to the latest Reuters/Ipsos Poll. Coming as they do just before the midterms, this does not bode well for the GOP ticket.

Poll: Trump’s Approval Rating Drops to New Low as Midterms Loom– www.breitbart.com
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President Donald Trump’s approval rating has fallen to a new low in another poll as the midterms are just weeks away.

Surveying 1,277 likely voters with a margin of error of +/- 3 percentage points, the latest Reuters/Ipsos poll found that the president’s overall approval stands at 32 percent. Even among Republicans, the president’s approval saw a significant drop in the week from 82 percent to 73 percent — a drop from 86 percent in January of this year and 91 percent following the inauguration in January 2025.

The president’s approval among Republicans has been steadily declining since the Iran conflict began, with recent polling showing a drop among his base even on economic issues. Since January, Republican support for Trump’s handling of the economy has dropped to 56 percent while Republican support for his handling of the cost of living has dropped to 44 percent.

“For really his entire political career, the president has enjoyed very strong support among the Republican Party and among his base, and that’s still true today, but it’s a bit less true,” Alec Tyson, senior vice president and lead pollster at Ipsos Public Affairs, told the Hill.

“Those are striking numbers,” Tyson added, “Numbers that we hadn’t seen until recent weeks here in our Ipsos polling.”

Approval ratings for the president as the midterms loom have ranged from as high as 39 percent to as low as 29 percent. According to Fox News, Republican performance in the coming midterms will hinge on several factors, most specifically inflation and base enthusiasm:

Democrats last week heavily criticized Trump and Republicans after the president argued that fuel costs were “a very inexpensive price to pay for what we’ve done,” as he pointed to the attacks on Iran’s nuclear facilities.

Meanwhile, the latest Fox News poll indicated that by a wide margin, the Democrats are considered the party that would better handle inflation.

But when asked about the overall economy, recent national surveys from Reuters/Ipsos and NBC News had the GOP and Democrats all knotted up on which party would better handle the issue.

The Supreme Court of the United States shut down the 2025 map for the Missouri midterm election, reinstating the 2022 map that preserves the Democrat-favored U.S. House District.

The unsigned order simply declared “At this late date, ordering reversion to the 2025 map in the midst of an ongoing election would usher in electoral chaos.” It should be noted that the primaries were based on the 2025 election map, giving doubt to SCOTUS’ ‘chaos’ claim as the basis for their ruling.

Supreme Court, for third time, rejects GOP’s bid to use Republican-friendly maps in Missouri– www.washingtontimes.com
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The Supreme Court rejected Republicans’ latest attempt to revive a GOP-tilted map for November’s congressional elections, ruling for a third time that even though the state held primaries under the new map, the old one must be used.

I. THE TECHNOLOGIES

By Paul Gordon Collier, Editor

“The horse is made ready for the day of battle, but the victory belongs to the Lord.” – Proverbs 21:31

INTRODUCTION

I operate under the assumption that throughout human history man has battled between institutional being that facilitates lethality and institutional being that facilitates daily human flourishing.

Getting the balance right is essential, because being efficient at lethality alone will create deficiency at home. This will soon neutralize that lethal advantage.

The cheat code for this is to continue conquesting, taking resources that provide flourishing without the institutions being required to produce flourishing at home. You are importing your flourishing through blood. When you run out of conquests, you pick your own people dry until you collapse, or they murder you.

Getting daily human flourishing down without lethality just makes you a Lindisfarne, a fat booty primed for the plucking. This can work if you become a vassal of lethality that has a more benevolent view of you.

For instance, if all the emperor wants is reliable booty, and that booty can be readily supplied without dipping into your flourishing stocks, for a time you have achieved parity, but only at the good graces of the lethality provider.

The ideal state for a people is to be the self-producers of both their own effective lethality and their own flourishing institutions. The more consensually they are integrated by a shared meta-narrative that defines the whole, the more sustainable that partnership will be.

The more your flourishing is produced from within, the less incentivized you are to exploit your neighbors, which makes you a desired and trustworthy ally. The greater your lethality is produced from within; the greater will be your sovereign powers in the geopolitical game.

Never in the course of human history has a technology come along that threatens to radically undo all the patterns of lethal-making that came before it like AI alone has done.

But AI is not the only technology, there are a family of them, and each one is a radical lethal game changer in their own right, but combined they destroy institutions and demand new ones emerge.

We are at such a crossroads in human being itself, where the species is confronted by its own creations, the fruit of human institutions, with America and China being the major bellwethers in this new world that is already here and is rapidly arriving.

With great opportunity comes great threat, and never in human history has that been more the case. At the ecumenical level, defensive technology is about to become, by urgent necessity, the decider of the institutions that will die, survive, thrive, and be born.

How we fight is going to be how we live, for a nation-state that fails to meet this challenge will soon be the diminished, impoverished servant of the one that does.

It is with these presuppositions that I examined the current and potential near-future state of defensive technology.

It is fitting that I utilized AI for my research, since AI is the star of defensive technology. I was an AI Agent manager. I managed my AI through a prompt. In my case, I use more than one AI agent. One thing I have learned about AI use, both with myself and others, is some people use AI to cut corners, take it easy, do the same work in a quarter of the time.

Certain tasks are irreducibly at that level, but the more complex the task, the more the opportunity exists to utilize AI not to do the same amount of work you did before in less time, but to dramatically (you hope) improve the work you’re doing for the same amount of time.

For instance, for this report I utilized about 6-8 hours of research time, starting with broad prompts that became more specific as I learned more particulars. The research time is about standard for these types of reports given the nature of the time I have to complete them.

My improved ability to manage AI agents has enabled me to get effectively 25-30 research hours done in 6-8 hours. I did not reduce my overall time; I increased my overall quality.

This point is relevant at the end, when it should become apparent to you how important it is to learn to become a manager of an AI Agent and not a propagandized tool of one, for even in the military can we afford to have people being led by AI rather than managing it.

God willing, the next report in our Futureq series will be about governance, both of AI agents and of independent communities, from extended families to villages and towns and beyond.

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:

This report explores the emerging defensive technology reality of power in present day and the directions it could take by 2036 (and also beyond). I am calling this the New Model Military, which applies to all militaries the world over, including America and China.

I mostly focus on the American model for the New Model Military, but give some analysis to China’s, which is a remarkable contrast to the American one. I will tell you why in the report.

The report starts with a summary of the core technologies now leading the formation of the New Model Army. This is the first part of our report, Technologies.

We will start with the backbone technologies, then finish with the weapons and weapons support technologies.

In part two, I analyze the New Model Army itself, its institutions, the tasks humans need to fulfill, and the skillsets humans need. I then look at how all the parts are intended, ideally, to integrate into the whole and the strategies the New Model Military will follow. I then peek at the range of future realities we could place.

Next, I take this all this data and produce an assessment of the reality of power in Defense today, in 2036, and beyond. I provide that assessment within my self-stewardship and Americanist framework.

Finally, I provide recommended action for both my fellow self-stewarded and American people, and one for President Trump as well. Spoiler alert, first and foremost learn to be an effective AI Agent manager.

A. BACKBONE TECHNOLOGIES

These are the technologies that all the other technologies rely upon. Agentic AI is the backbone of all backbone technologies, but the other four here are essential to the 21st century military principle of “resilience,” of surviving and performing after catastrophe has struck.

All of these technologies have non-military counterparts, while none of them are quite ready to deliver on the promise of a resilient military, at least not yet.

  1. AGENTIC AI – This technology is the backbone of all the other technologies to follow. Without Agentic AI (AAI), no military can hope to remotely compete with one that has such powers. For this reason alone, nation-states must assure they either have the most powerful, fastest-processing AI agents or be allied with a nation-state that does. This factor alone makes AI as essential to the 21st Century military as gunpowder has been to all militaries for the last six plus centuries.

Currently, militaries are already using agentic AI, with the U.S., Russia, and Ukraine deploying it in major operations. Maven Smart System has been used by the U.S. military, which is a provider of intelligence gathering and targeting-supporting AI agents. That has been succeeded by Agent Network, which was just launched in June of this year.

The latest upgrade is moving towards “agent-to-agent handoffs,” which are currently limited. There are AI agents for every aspect of the military machine, from logistics agents to fire agents. The goal is to allow all of them to talk directly to each other, enabling more rapid “holistic” understanding of the conditions.

Currently, or should I say “allegedly,” there are no agents making fire decisions. A human is behind every lethal action. But the military hopes to develop agents that can make lethal decisions in limited actions a human is observing. That human would also have the power to end the action.

Yet, the U.S. military hopes to have agents capable of making lethal decisions when everything, and everyone else has been destroyed. What the U.S. military claims is that no such agent would choose targets, they would be given the targets to strike.

The desire to keep AI’s lethal decision-making contained is undermined by the threat that competing nation-states will have no such restraint, which might give them a major advantage in the new war reality.

The ability of small-scale players to create their own agentic AIs to run their own weapons systems (and the logistics in delivering those weapons systems to the theater of war) almost guarantees agentic AIs will be given full target-seeking and eliminating powers (if they haven’t already).

One essential aspect of Agentic AI is the ability to run the real in simulation not only before the real occurs, but even during. The general consensus is the AI agent that can’t survive the sim, won’t survive the real. The AI agent that engages with the real without the sim is at a decided major disadvantage to the AI agent that operates with a sim.

The U.S. military has developed Ender’s Foundry, whose 10-year goal is to create a sim that is constantly updated with the real so that AI agents can practice while they’re “fighting.”

At the core of this fight is the speed and data processing power of the core AI that powers the agentic AI. This, again, is why AI is so essential for nation-state sovereignty in the decades to come. It is also why AI is now a 2nd Amendment issue for American citizens.

One new geopolitical reality is this, if your allies are not in on your best AI powers and utilizing them and communicating with them in the same way you do, your whole system is useless unless you fight alone.

This puts a premium on advantaged power forming alliances with lesser powers, and on lesser powers forming alliances with advantaged powers.

It also puts a premium on trust in the alliance, for the advantaged power must share some of its most sensitive technological secrets with its allies, or they won’t be able to effectively integrate with their system.

  1. RESILIENT POSITION, NAVIGATION, TIMING, AND COMMS – The key word in this description is resilient, and it conforms to the overall strategy of the 21st Century military, small-scale resilience when everything else is gone, or inaccessible.

First and foremost, every military must be optimally synced with one another, which requires shared exact time. To be resilient, every small part of the whole must be able to preserve that time sync even when it’s separated from the whole system. This part, timing, is essential to the other two.

Timing in the 21st century theater of war is essential for an effective military.

You also need exact navigation that can persist even when cut off from the whole system. That navigation system must also resist interference. Finally, you need to have decentralized communications systems to assure the parts can both survive separation from the whole while still easily reintegrating when connecting back to the whole.

GPS, which relies on satellite signaling, is not a resilient navigation system, though it still remains the most effective one, both in terms of delivering reliable navigation and in resisting interference efforts.

It is not expected to continue to be effective against developments in hacking technologies, however, and thus there is the impetus to develop technological alternatives. So far, alternatives to GPS, even as backups to them, are in the concept stage of development.

Every system, including any AI system, must be deemed immune to quantum cryptography by the end of 2030. Developing anti-quantum cryptography technologies is crucial to these resilient technologies developing.

The technologies in this category are mostly quantum technologies that haven’t gone beyond the concept stage of development.

At the heart of most of these quantum technologies is quantum sensing, the ability to hone in on a single atom that becomes a multi-purpose beacon, which includes navigation, timing, and even communications.

The clock is the essential element, and that clock must be a quantum one. The difference between a traditional clock and a quantum one is the traditional clock requires a stable condition to be precise, while the quantum clock is tied to an unstable condition.

This makes the quantum clock, the quantum sensor, resilient,  or able to FIRST be separated from the whole without losing vital navigation, timing, and communications; THEN being able to integrate seamlessly back into the whole.

An unconfirmed application of a quantum sensor may have happened in Iran after a U.S. pilot who was shot down. The pilot was rescued with a “Ghost Murmur.” The device was able to detect the airman’s heartbeat. It uses long-range quantum magnetometry to detect the electromagnetic fingerprint of a beating human heart.

  1. FORWARD AND RESILIENT POWER – Essential to a resilient military is local power. The future of local power might be in biomanufacturing, but, not today, and most likely, not even 10 years from now.

One strategy is to deploy literal batteries, which offer silent power, but also require more outside resupply. Another strategy is to use microgrids, which can use a variety of resources for power, including diesel, solar, wind, and batteries.

The 10-year goal is to have nuclear energy cells that can sustain an operations for months. So far, only prototypes of this exist.

For right now, diesel is still the most effective source for creating local power. The addition of resilience technologies is only going to add to the demand already put on the diesel supply lines, which makes developing alternatives to diesel as a local power essential to the 21st century military.

The U.S. Army recently paid $45 million to develop a tactical microgrid, which is designed to be able to use multiple energy resources, including diesel. The microgrids are also designed to be maximally efficient, to lessen the demand for energy resources overall.

The future of military technology right now points to nuclear-powered microgrids, though it is uncertain if this will occur within the next 10 years.

  1. ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING AT THE POINT OF NEED – The days of whole military machines being printed onsite are most likely not in the near future, not even within the next 10 years. With that off the table (for now), I will focus on what additive manufacturing is already doing to the military and what it might do in the near future.

Right now, printers in the field are reliably printing replacement parts needed for repairs. Printers are also being used in another key area, printing vital parts to make cheap drones. This is the printer’s most important battlefield role today.

. The wars of the future will be a contest, from the start, of printing cheap drones to be used in swarm attacks. Additive manufacturing is a key part of that process (more on this later).

Whole drone printing factories are being utilized already in the Ukraine War, new advances promise to reduce cost through more effective printing, increased speed of production, and maximizing energy use more effectively.

On the way are not just drone printing factories, but cheap munitions printing factories as well, including rockets.

One key bottleneck to printing onsite is the resources needed for printing. These create a supply tail, which creates targets for the enemy. Another bottleneck is assuring parts are used according to their licensing specs.

As we will see later, the civic-military relationship NEEDS to be based on mutual accountability. This is why the military must be careful not to violate the commercial license of a vendor by using their part in an unlicensed way. The liability would fall wholly on the military if the part produced liable action.

With the aid of AI as a developer, printing onsite has rapidly advanced in the last 10 years. The next 10 years offer potentials for that trend to continue at or even above the past 10 years’ trendline.

Developments in composites could reduce resource needed and deliver potentials to print whole systems. While it isn’t projected that tanks can be printed onsite in 10 years, it is not completely outside the realm of possibility.

  1. FORWARD BIOMANUFACTURING – As of right now, the use of Forward biomanufacturing in the military is only in small-scale proof-of-concept prototypes. The aim of biomanufacturing is to use the local biodiversity to produce food, medical supplies, and energy.

Biomanufacturing is using biological material to print new materials, like medicines and energy pellets from plants. So far, there is limited use of food biomanufacturing, with medical supplies and energy mostly existing in the concept stage.

The industry standard-bearer is Bio-Industrial Manufacturing and Design Ecosystems (BioMADE), which was funded by the DoD for $87 million. The company has created pilot plants in Minnesota and California. These plants are creating and testing biomanufacturing microfactories that print lithium biosorbents, 3D-print plastics, wound-healing proteins, and biosensors.

They are discovering the effective models and standards that will inform the development of the whole industry.

“Point-of-need food” is not far from happening, with a prototype model being built that can create protein rations from air, water, and electricity. The prototype aims to be able to create 2,800 calories a day for up to 18 troops. If that works, it will scale up to 250. It is required the food produced is something the soldiers would actually enjoy eating.

Operations will have to decide the essential biomanufacturing needs they want fulfilled, for they are limited in the amount of biomanufacturing units they can support. Within 10 years, it is likely they will have a full menu to chose from in the medical and food buckets, but not quite the energy bucket.

Biomanufacturing chemicals for multiple needs, including fuels, adhesives, and medical applications, are likely to explode in options for operations 10 years from now.

B. WEAPONS TECHNOLOGIES

The backbone technologies enable the weapons technologies to function and be sustained. This list does not include fully developed technologies already in use through conventional weapons platforms (like tanks and assault rifles).

This list includes the types of weapons platforms and support systems that are essential for the military to achieve resilience status, of being able to function in disconnected parts in the face of catastrophe while also being able to seamlessly reintegrate with the whole.

Other than the first technology, cheap uncrewed mass, these technologies are mostly at the concept stage and all still unable to fully deliver on the promise of military resilience.

  1. CHEAP UNCREWED MASS (SWARMS) – The notion that the militaries of the world are deploying swarms of cheap, but autonomous drones, all being coordinated by a shared AI agent, is a fiction. Within 10 years, it could come to reality, but most likely, not at a large-scale.

China is pursuing what is called a multi-domain swarm tactic, meaning it is attempting to not only coordinate an air swarm, but land, sea, and even space, swarms as well. Their swarms are intended to follow the mostly sci-fi model described previously. China is relying far more on AI genius than human ingenuity in its model.

Ukraine has been the proving ground for what drone swarms are in reality, dumb programmed drones intended to cheaply devastate enemy assets. 60-70% of Russian asset damage has been caused by drones that cost in the thousands, and sometimes the hundreds, while destroying hundreds of millions of dollars in damages.

America is developing a strategy called Collaborative Combat Aircraft, which integrates drones with a human-flown aircraft. They are also developing MMAs or Massed Modular Aircraft. These are unmanned aircraft that can fly long range at high altitudes. They would replace the job of our long-range bombers today, at a fraction of the cost, and with quicker response times.

Every country, however, will have to produce high volumes of cheap drones that can be used effectively like shelling, but also to flush out enemy defenses that make your high-precision weapons (like hypersonic missiles and energy weapons) more effective.

Electronics jamming, spoofing, communications jamming are all becoming a key part of the drone battlefield, with militaries having to both protect their drones from these attacks and use these techniques to attack the enemy’s drones.

In addition to drones, there are Mothership drones, large drones that carry the many cheap drones.

Additive Manufacturing is a key part of the drone swarm wars. Failure to keep printing cheap drones will result in the loss of the skies. This is already being seen in the Ukraine War.

AI agents are crucial to the effectiveness of any drone warfare strategy, with China’s model, again, putting more dependence on AI as a decision maker than the model the U.S. is (allegedly) developing.

  1. SCALED DIRECTED ENERGY – There are two primary types of scaled directed energy, high-energy lasers (HEL) and high-power microwaves (HPM). The former is used to target expensive weapons, like missiles, while the latter was borne from the necessity to fight cheap drone swarms.

In September 2026, the U.S. Army awarded the first production contract for an “Enduring High Energy Laser (E-HEL)” to AeroVironment in the amount of $465 million. The hope is to build “dozens of systems” over the next few years. These units are expected to allow soldiers to maintain them, not technicians, this, in part, is what makes them “scalable.”

In June 2026, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth watched a demonstration of combined HEL and HPM systems destroy a range of targets, including cheap drones and missiles. The demonstration has convinced the military to go forward with their efforts to develop this technology.

Currently, the main limitation is weather, fog, smoke, and turbulence. Under optimal conditions, you can put on a nice display for a dignitary, but in the field, under less optimal conditions, the systems suffers failures, especially the HEL systems. The HPM systems are less hampered by such factors.

Applications for both HEL and HPM systems in Naval use have not been unnoticed by the U.S. Navy, which is hoping to integrate both systems into their defensive strategy.

A weapons platform that cannot cheaply counter cheap drone swarms cannot exist in the 21st century theater of war.

This is why HPMs are so vital to the future of war, though they have only been minimally used in the Ukraine War. Both HELs and HPMS provide a “limitless” cheap magazine supply essential to combatting cheap attack waves from the enemy.

Agentic AI is an essential part of the effectiveness of directed energy weapons. Without a more powerful AI than your opponent, your HPMS and HELs will be of little use, and most likely will be quickly destroyed.

  1. UNMANNED AND LOW-SIGNATURE LOGISTICS MOVERS – These technologies rely on the effectiveness of biomanufacturing and additive manufacturing to significantly reduce their need in the first place.

Keeping within the principle of assuming catastrophic conditions, the supply line has to be at minimal, maximally unmanned and not run in a clear, trackable pattern. The idea is to always have a direct path, but never the same path.

Logistics must come through a mesh path, not a traditional one. This is called operating under an assumption of “contested logistics.”

The vehicles must be cheap, low in detectability (“low signature”), and numerous. The idea is to use many inexpensive small drones (including land, air, sea, and eventually space) to transport minimal core supply needs rather than expensive high-signature large-scale supply movers.

Primarily, these logistics movers need to supply a squad with ammo, water, blood, and batteries. As a tactical connector, they need to provide fuel to aircraft, replacing big refuelers with minimally-sized unmanned drones.

Supply ships could soon be replaced by unmanned resupply vehicles capable of making long supply runs evasively, saving human crews from the tasking burden. Smaller versions are already in use in the Philippines by the U.S. military.

The whole system heavily relies on AI agents to navigate, especially in order to keep the “path” of supply coming from mesh, not traditional, supply paths.

  1. COLLABORATIVE/ATTRIBUTABLE COMBAT AIRCRAFT – This is the drone you don’t want to throw away so easily, and you also don’t want it to be “dumb.” They are fully functioning versions of the top manned fighters of the day, including the F-35, but at 1/3 the cost. They are designed to fly in coordination with a manned fighter.

There are working prototypes of this model, but none with the required range, and the AI power behind them is still unsettled. Some of the questions are connected to the part the fighter takes in taking lethal action. Until the AI brain vendor is chosen, the military is hard-pressed to build the machines around the chosen AI brain, which is what they have to do to integrate the AI with the machine.

Within 10 years, manned pilots will have 4-5 of these CCAs accompanying them into battle. The Air Force has already ordered the production of 150 combat-capable CCAs by the end of the decade. It awaits the projected funding from the 2027 budget, which will be nearly $1 billion.

  1. SCALED HYPERSONICS – Hypersonics weapons are to be deployed on high-interest, high-cost targets. Their use is minimal, which is good, because the supply is minimal, and even ten years from now, it is not likely to exponentially increase due to the cost and speed of production.

These weapons fly at Mach 5+. It is important to note these are not aimed munitions, these are navigable craft with a munitions payload. They are intended to navigate to the target.

Currently, the U.S. lacks a hypersonic missile. What we possess is a Mach 5+ boost glide missile. China and Russia have successfully demonstrated hypersonic missile capacity.

There are two types of hypersonic missile, a Boost Glide Hypersonic Weapon and an Air-Breathing Cruiser.

A Boost Glide Hypersonic Weapon is a rocket-lofted unpowered glide body that can maneuver to the target. An Air-Breathing Cruiser has both a rocket booster and a scramjet cruiser that works in the atmosphere.

Lockheed Martin is working on a third option, a thin-layered model designed to reduce cost and increase production potential. This is called the NXGB. This design has the promise of delivering on the scale part of hypersonic, which means it can reduce the cost and time of production of hypersonic weapons to more reliable production potentials.

Both the deployment and development of this technology is critically reliant on powerful AI agents. The militaries that possess the most effective AI brains will develop and deploy the most effective scaled hypersonic weapons systems.

  1. RECAP – We examined the 10 major technologies essential to building and sustaining a resilient military. We started with the backbone technologies, including the backbone of backbones, AI agents, then concluded with weapons technologies that build and sustain military resilience in the 21st century.

The second part of this report, The New Model Military, begins by looking at the institutions forming around this emerging military reality.

It continues by examining the human skillsets needed to develop, sustain, and operate the technologies of the New Model Military.  I will explore the strategies, integrations, and future potentials of the New Model Military.

Finally, I will conclude this report with an assessment in the context of self-stewardship potential and recommended action for self-stewarded people in response to this new, emerging military reality.

II. THE NEW MODEL MILITARY

A. INSTITUTIONS

The specific structures of the 21st Century New Model Military have yet to be seen, but already we can see underlying principles that will define their formation.

Due to the nature of the strategy, resilience in the face of catastrophe, the support structure will have to mirror the military structure, meaning mesh structures, autonomy in the parts that still integrate with the whole, and far more civilians “inside the wire” than there ever was before.

The new military must integrate and rely on the private sector like never before. Due to what will be an incredibly fluid nature of development and counter-development, military evolution will require independent thinking to allow it to compete with other militaries.

The space for ossification in this new reality is dead.

HQ in the new model military is composed of officers whose primary tasks are to “bound” or manage AI agents that are making most of the essential decisions and discoveries.

Training in simulations is critical to this New Model Military. Training is already moving to the fore in importance in America’s military. Every aspect of the military, from supply to strategy to maintenance, will be subject to intense simulation training.

There are already forming portfolio divisions, as opposed to branch divisions, which specialize in sustaining standards and development for a certain technology, like the biotech industry benchmark BioMADE. These types of divisions will require (and already have) civilian-military integration at the highest levels.

Air Force formations come as a package, integrating the human-flown platforms with the drones that support them. Ground forces are small and flexible, able to integrate with resilience technologies like additive marketing and biomanufacturing.

One of the military’s new critical tasks is to be an effective vendor manager, identifying and cultivating good relations with quality vendors while providing oversight which assures that they stay within military specs.

This is especially true of AI, where the military has already clashed with private industry, namely Anthropic, regarding its intentions to be able to override military orders as outside the scope of the relationship.

The new model military of the foreseeable future will not be an all-robot military, but where do humans fit in?

B. WHERE HUMANS FIT IN

  1. MISSION COMMANDERS OF MIXED TEAMS – These are your tactical officers, capable of managing AI agents from multiple areas as well as the humans integrating with them, such as human pilots.

Any individual, from a pilot to a battery commander, to eventually the ground soldier, must have some skills in managing AI agents effectively. The mantra “authority, abort, accountability” will be beaten into the head of every soldier with any authority in the New Model Military.

  1. UNCREWED-SYSTEMS OPERATORS AND MISSION LEADS – The humans in this group assure the uncrewed systems keep effectively working. They will not only remotely operate some of them, but they will also service, rescue, and resupply them, as well as manage the AI agents attached to them.
  2. SPECTRUM/PNT/EW WARRANTS AND NCOS – These are the people that keep communications, timing, and navigation alive, whether it is for the whole system or the part of the whole. Small in size today, this group is expected to grow significantly in the coming years.
  3. DIRECTED-ENERGY AND cUAS CREWS – These people maintain the physical infrastructure of directed energy weapons. They are also manual overrides in critical fail circumstances.
  4. EDGE PRODUCTION AND REPAIR TRADES – These people maintain, sustain, and supply the additive manufacturing and microgrid units. They are mechanics primarily.
  5. TACTICAL POWER AND ENERGY NCOs – These are the people that ration the power and protect the microgrids. They also determine which microgrids and biomanufacturing units are to be used.
  6. SCARCE HIGH-END SHOOTERS – These are the people that sustain hypersonic weapons platforms. Their primary skillset is magazine discipline, assuring the magazine is read for operation.
  7. INFANTRY/FIRES/SHIP DRIVERS – These are the people who still represent human “boots on the ground” in any operation. They still have riflemen, but they also have drone chargers and onsite printer operators. Even riflemen may soon have support drones within 10 years (though not yet likely).
  8. INSTRUCTORS AND RED-TEAMERS – These are the people who assure simulation plumblines are accurate reflections of real-world performance. If they are not, the military in the 21st century will not survive. Training in simulations is critical, and these are the people that assure that training is effective.
  9. SURETY, LEGAL, AND NUCLEAR-OVERSIGHT OFFICERS – These are military lawyers, nuclear reactor regulators, and nuclear-trained soldiers. The higher-level skillset tasks will slightly increase, but the lower-level skillset tasks, such as manned crews running routine logistics runs, will dramatically decrease.
  10. CIVILIANS – On the civilian side, the divisions are more complex. Their role, in general, is more essential than it ever was before, and the need for many more to be “behind the wire” will only increase.

One of the biggest challenges in the integration of the civilian with the military will be the capacity of the military to fire a bad vendor and the willingness of the military to scapegoat the vendor to cover up its own failure. MUTUAL ACCOUNTABILITY IS KEY.

The “turn the wrench” relationship between vendor and the military is gone. Now, they must work more in cooperation with one another in accountable ways, especially where AI is part of the trigger-pulling process.

C. THE HUMANS NEEDED

As I stated earlier, there will be humans in the New Model Military, and they will be essential parts of an AI management, equipping, and supporting system. In the New Model Military, the human role is to give the AI Agent operations commands it can execute on the fly, while keeping it contained within the parameters of that operation’s command.

The military of the future will still need fit humans willing to put bullets in skulls, but they will need far more managers of the digital brains and the machines that will replace at least the frontline soldiers. Among those managers, some will need to remain fit, others will not. Overall, the need for physically superior men will be significantly less than it currently is.

People who can sustain self-control and focus under high-stressed catastrophic circumstances are best fit for almost any role in the New Model Military of the 21st Century. A nation-state that cannot cultivate such people will lose the wars they fight.

As for the soldiers themselves, their jobs will demand they still stay fit and strong, but now they also must have higher skills like AI agent management. So even among the dominant physical males, the demand for intelligence and independent thinking is more important than ever before.

It is not inconceivable that every soldier will have to be trained in one of these skillsets as well, serving in these capacities when not being called into direct action.

Here are six of the new top key tasks and the humans needed for those tasks:

  1. MISSION COMMAND OF MIXED HUMAN-MACHINE TEAMS – There will be Package Managers who will have to manage 2-4 manned jets each with support from unmanned jets. The package commander will be coordinating AI Agents and the human crew members.

Staff Officers are the ones that make the lethal decisions and govern AI’s lethal decision-making.

Doctrine writers will be the ones setting the parameters for AI’s role in lethal decision-making. They will be especially important in the commission of a battle when writing off-the-loop lethality orders for AI within a narrow set of pre-authorized parameters. This would include the targets themselves.

The number one skill for this group is a skill almost every soldier must soon possess, effectively instructing and managing AI agents. For this group, it will be the most important skillset.

  1. SOFTWARE, DATA, AND AUTONOMY AS A COMBAT ARM – These are the people that keep software updated, secured, and maintained. Mission-Autonomy Engineers will manage the software systems for autonomous unmanned vehicles. Data Stewards keep the data flowing even when it goes down. Simulation/Synthetic-Environment people keep training and simulation integrity to assure simulation success reflects real world success.

Cyber operators both attack and protect radios and agents from other Cyber operators. They also manage AI agents that assist them in this task.

Everyone in this group must be an excellent AI agent manager, but they also must be creative thinkers able to adapt on the fly, to see outside the box without leaving the lethal reality of the box. This group is a mix of soldiers, civilians, and vendors, so liaison skillsets will also be required in this group.

Remember, everyone must share the accountability or the system breaks down, and if it breaks down, your AI breaks down, and if your AI breaks down, so do you. Without mutual accountability, the integrity and efficiency of the whole system collapses.

  1. NAVIGATION, TIMING, COMMUNICATIONS – Electronic warfare and spectrum management is developed and executed by this group. The managers are the ones that develop the initial attack and defense strategies of each engagement. They rely on AI agent input, so they must be trained in how to effectively understand them quickly.

PNT engineers are the ones who assure the exacting atomic clock remains exacting, and that information is sharable with the unit. Cryptographic agility teams manage the quantum-required technologies such as quantum sensing. SATCOM and mesh planners assure there is always one path, but it’s always a different one.

This group requires high AI agent management skills, and an ability to think quickly and precisely when faced with firehoses of data under extreme conditions.

  1. EDGE PRODUCTION – These are mostly technicians, people who actually run the additive manufacturing and bioprocessing machines, as well as maintain them. These are tradesmen, but ones that require higher training and higher skills than average tradesmen. They must also be able to operate efficiently and rapidly under extreme conditions. These people will need to be physically fit to perform.
  2. MICROGRID OPERATORS – These are tactical power techs, some of which will need to be nuclear trained tactical power techs. There will be a heavy civilian and vendor presence here, as the vendors own the microgrids, but the military governs their use. These people will need to be physically fit to perform.
  3. DIRECT ENERGY DEVELOPMENT AND MAINTENANCE – This group will maintain the directed energy systems, continue to develop and improve them, and constantly test them both in simulations and in firing exercises. They will need to have a minimum masters-level understanding of physics to be in this group.

D. INTEGRATING THE WHOLE

The whole of everything that follows must produce what is called a “closed kill web.” The goal is to destroy sensors and beat your enemy to the decision-making tree. After the first wave, in defense or offense, your forces must be able to operate in mesh formations, with each unit capable of staying in sync with the whole without being connected to the whole, and that includes keeping navigation capacity without GPS.

The Air war is fought by manned and unmanned combat aircraft, with unmanned support craft sustaining the effort. Air superiority is more essential now than it was before.

The land war is fought by advanced unmanned ground systems, with soldiers following behind, trailing along their own drone support as well. The bulk of the fight will be conducted through drones and electronic warfare.

On the seas, the carrier is still a significant advantage, but not if it can’t defend itself against high-precision, high speed weapons or cheap swarm attacks. Aircraft Carriers will most likely become just as much drone carriers as aircraft carriers, with onboard crews sustaining and even manufacturing drones.

With their nuclear power plants, Aircraft carriers are already nearly resilient. Now, they need upgraded with biomanufacturing and additive manufacturing additions. These aircraft carriers will be accompanied by drones below, on, and above the sea.

I do not believe the aircraft carrier will long survive after 2036, but it will most likely still be important by then.

Space is going to become an increasingly relevant domain of war. It is the satellites in space that enable militaries to master navigation, communications, and timing, so efforts to remove enemy satellites will only increase.

We might not see space drones attacking enemy satellites by 2036, but then again, we might. Whether by 2036 or later, there’s no doubt that the space wars are coming; and when they do, I believe they will follow the same pattern as the earth, cheap mass attacks, cheap directed energy defenses, and accurate and fast attacks on high-value targets.

Humans, even in space, will be managers of the war, not the front-line fighters. They will, however, be the backline casualties, as humans, especially high-value humans will increasingly become the targets, from the leaders to the experts and the effective managers.

Humans, however, are the essential drivers of the whole machine. Having quality humans capable of independent thinking, capable of processing firehoses of data from which they must make quick decisions under extreme pressure, is essential to the nation-state that hopes to compete in the 21st century theater of war.

There must be effective realistic sim-driven and live-construction exercises that train, lead to discoveries, and test current methods. There is no time to rest on your technological laurels, for they will be outmoded within a few years, at most.

Constant tracking of new technologies, new theories, and connecting to the individuals and vendors behind them are essential to the New Model Military.

A nation-state must have a defense industry capable of massively scaling up at a moment’s notice, yet able to thrive without massive productions.

As stated in the AI Agent section, the need for nation-states, be they the advantaged power or a lesser power, to form trustworthy alliances is essential if they want to survive.

E. STRATEGY

Throughout this report we have repeated over and over again the prevailing strategy of the New Model Military. It is not to send a large force with a long supply tail thousands of miles away, it is to send small integrated, multi-domain units in as self-sustaining nodes operating under the assumption they are on their own for the first few months of operations.

One major problem in developing a real strategy doctrine is the fluidity of technological development. With AI as the main driver of military development, it is uncertain where that development might go.

For the foreseeable future, the military strategy is to become resilient in isolation, while sustaining reintegration with the whole capacity (especially by keeping the same time). We spend cheaply on weapons that combat cheap weapons and save our high-value weapons for high-value targets.

We use cheap mass to cheaply attack and defend, and expensive speed to attack and defend high-value targets.

The job of the human in combat is mostly to assure AI stays on mission, occupy physical territory that needs human to human interaction, and maintain the infrastructure that keeps the mesh moving (and it will be a mesh if it is to survive).

China is going down the full AI-autonomous swarm path in all domains, air, land, sea, and space, while the U.S. is developing a human supported by a drone team model. China may be betting AI can outthink humans in combat while the U.S. is betting human wisdom as a final check and director of overall action can “outthink” its AI counterpart in China.

China might also recognize the limits of authoritarian-dominated institutions in creating the kinds of humans who could run a U.S.-designed New Model Military.

The new war reality will see swarms attacking infrastructure, including targeting civilians, and probing the enemy defense so its AI can adjust its tactics accordingly. Swarms will defend against swarms, but directed energy weapons, mainly the microwave variety (HPMs), will do the bulk of the defending.

Cyber defense and attacks are even more of a crucial part of the battlefield than they were before. Many wars might be won by an effective cyber attack that allows the enemy’s AI to go blind long enough to be able to neutralize the heart of military power, the AI itself.

Where neither side gains a cyber advantage, the next test is in the ability to keep producing wave upon wave of swarms and keep your directed energy weapons online. An enemy that loses this battle loses the air, and soon everything else.

While the swarm wars are happening, sabotage and crypto attack operations will be ongoing, with each side hoping to knock out a key part of the enemy’s AI or supply structure.

When one resilient military meets another resilient military, the offensive force must neutralize the enemy’s mass defense system. It can do this primarily by interfering with the signals, corrupting their software (cyber-attack) or tricking their AI agents into seeing things not there.

If it fails to do so, it will walk into a trap it set for itself.

If it succeeds, the next step is to attack the expensive magazines of the enemy, which would be its missiles, especially its hypersonic missiles. Your own expensive magazines are used to knock out radars, airfields, magazines, and communications lines, like undersea cables. This is designed to un-mesh the enemy, leaving them predictable and vulnerable.

Next, you must take out their supplies and their factories. If you cannot stop their flow of production, you cannot move your ground troops in. They would be sitting ducks in the face of an enemy that can print cheap drones on demand.

If you knock out an enemy’s AI effectiveness, you can expect it will not stay knocked out for long, so the offense’s window to strike and hold territory is small.

If you are defending, you must always assume the first picture you see is a lie. From the start of an attack, your units must go into isolation in catastrophe mode. Above all else, you must be disbursed and able to provide cheap weapons cover of your area to stop the cheap drone swarms from overcoming you, either physically or economically.

As much as possible, you need your disbursed units to be able to operate like factories, not warehouses. Keep your unmanned supply vehicles one salvo away from the frontlines to preserve your own mesh supply paths.

Rationing your own high-value magazines will be essential to enduring a lasting attack. Its lasers and swarms for the flock, or the mass, and scalpels, like hypersonic missiles, for the essential targets. Now more than ever, war is as much an economic one as a ballistic one.

The Defense has four main goals: interfere with the enemy’s AI as it sifts through fact and fiction (spoof detection), keep its unmanned supply vehicles safe, have its own disbursed units dependent on local resources for making and for power, and preserve its expensive magazine supply.

The New Model Military gives the offense an advantage on campaigns, but not a decisive one. Holding or taking territory will be much more difficult, but disrupting the enemy will be easier than before. The battlefield advantage, outside of the AI itself, is with the cheap weapons, the cheap drones and directed energy weapons.

The cost of defensive operations right now will be higher than offensive ones, but within ten years that is expected to switch as directed energy gets more efficient, AI agents improve their cooperation, and the directed energy crews become more efficient as well.

The 2036 New Model Military faces a formidable defensive foe, with the caveat being a defense that sits in place sits in defeat.

F. ASSESSMENT

The national discourse in America is still mostly framed by the progressive state’s media machine. Even in space where the audience is averse to the progressive state media machine, the content creators servicing that audience are all having arguments in progressive courts.

Even where the progressive state press is not being directly consumed, in “conservative” space, it is still the main driver of the narratives in that space.

It is still largely the progressive state press (a subset of the media machine) that drives the narratives of our national discourse. That national discourse is oblivious to the reality of power around it.

The national discourse in America is entirely framed by two progressive presuppositions: the first one is that race, gender identity, and sexual identity are the determiners of character and truth; the second one is that self-ownership is killing humanity.

AI is a capitalist exploitation by narcissistic corporatists who will intentionally or inadvertently create a devil that will kill us all. He’ll do this by eating our land, drinking all our water, and hoarding all our energy for himself.

The counter argument has mostly been, “nuh uh.”

As we have documented in MIA, President Donald Trump continues to pitch the Iran War as a war to remove nukes from the mullahs. I suspect this is because of geopolitical posturing; the President believes he will face far more of a direct threat from China in Iran if he openly rallies Americans around what the real purpose of the war is, to cut China’s AI off from resources.

Yet that geopolitical posturing is costing him dearly at home, at a time when the House and Senate are up for grabs. As the war rages on, causing energy prices to continue to mostly rise, causing real people to see their quality of life noticeably go down, all the President can say to real suffering is, “we’re gonna keep the bomb from the madmen.”

The threat at home is real, and the consequence of a Democrat-majority House and/or Senate will be severe, both to the President’s agenda and America’s capacity to equip itself with the type of lethal force necessary to remain the superpower of the world.

The people at home have grown fat from superpower life. They’ve grown disconnected from the reality of life outside that superpower bubble. Feeling more shame than gratitude for their advantaged position of ease, they have no idea how difficult life will be for them in a land not fielding a superpower military in the 21st century.

The Democrats will choose race wars over American power.

China is developing a military strategy in line with its institutional reality, that above all else all power must affirm Xi, personally. A model requiring independent thinkers would be difficult to sustain in a land where truth is Xi and Xi alone.

America is developing a military strategy that presupposes the “enlightenment” blessing, the age of the republic of letters (where the truth is protected by tolerating the lie), will continue in the “land of the free.”

America’s critical fail could be right there, should the progressive state fully emerge and finally discard the American coat they’ve been hiding under, shamefully, angrily. Within the progressive worldview, truth is the property of the truth receivers, a special class of special people who have access to the truth that makes heaven on earth.

Such claims are destroyed by the plain truths around us, so truth must go silent to preserve the grand lie. This people will not produce the type of AI agent managers needed not only in service of the military, but in service to most aspects of human living in the foreseeable time to come.

The next major question is this, will AI outsmart human wisdom or will human wisdom as its governor overcome its intelligence without it?

Every nation-state that ever hoped to continue, even every kingdom, every Empire, every city-state, had to assure at least one thing, it had the lethality it could count on to prevent itself from being murdered by its neighbors.

There are many ways for states, nation-states today, to possess that lethality, but the further connected they are from producing it themselves, the more subservient they will become to whomever they are dependent on.

This will lower the quality of life for its people overall. Ultimately, the top lethal powers will be produced by the nation-state that can produce the type of people that can execute such powers.

China is betting on authoritarian institutions being able to produce an AI that will do all its dangerous thinking for it, in ways it can control easier than it can if it relied on humans to do the same thing. It is betting on AI being able to win the lethal contest with human-governed AIs.

Lethal efficiency, however, is not necessarily a sustainable model. Human history is filled with such examples, such as the Mongols who, so long as they could expand territory, dominated other nations. Once they found their borders, the men who could most efficiently kill turned out not to be so good at managing peace.

Mongol institutions produced the most efficient lethality on the planet for 200 or so years. Yet when conquest ended, they did too within a couple decades.

AI is about to put itself and humans to the test. America is attempting to preserve the human governor in the contest for lethality. Within America, there is a contest for the heart of its Rule of Law, though hardly anyone, including the American “conservatives” are talking about it.

Will truth prevail in the public space or will claims of exclusive special truth destroy it? If we succeed in restoring, creating, and preserving the institutions that facilitate independent self-sustainability that can integrate with the whole, will AI ungoverned still destroy us anyway?

America seems set to abandon the very institutions it needs to produce the AI agent managers our country needs to sustain its status as a superpower. If we fail to do so, the quality of life for everyone, especially our children, will continue to decline, if not abruptly end.

There is another core problem with the American model which will not affect the Chinese model. For the nation-states of the 21st century to field a world-class lethality, at least for the foreseeable future, the civilian must be more totally aligned with the meta-story of the military than ever in American history.

Civilian institutions don’t just need to integrate with military institutions, they must do it in a way that preserves mutual accountability.  One thing I have learned is that words create opportunity for division and the obfuscation of truth when they are not exchanged between shared hearts.

A shared heart has the same meta-story between it. But what is America’s meta-story? The progressive meta-story is anathema to the previous American meta story. The progressive meta-story is that humanity’s purpose is to create perfect equity between the good humans that put the needs of the earth above their own. It’s a global empire story, not a diverse nation-state story.

America’s meta-story has been a light of the world, a beacon for liberty, where the people define their own happiness and pursuit within the framework of being the beacon of liberty for the world. America assumes our right to pursue our own happiness comes from a lawgiver outside earthly authority, which justifies limiting state, and even corporate power, even at the cost of “the good of the whole.”

The people of this land might not agree with the notion of a lawgiver outside of earthly authority having a right to limit state authority at all, let alone if they even agree that such a lawgiver exists.

Americans mostly speak liberty, but with no phenomenological anchor, a people that understand the ritual of liberty but not the daily knowing.

The American plan for the New Model Military will crash and burn on two potential shoals, the inability to restore and sustain American institutions versus progressive ones, and the inability of human-governed AI to “outlethal” AI on autopilot.

The next 100 years may be decided by this question, who will win a war, AI with human governance or AI on autopilot? Then again, it might devolve into a contest of autopilot versus autopilot AI. The world might never know whether human-governed AI would beat autopilot AI, because it might not have the institutions to allow it.

I suspect strongly the human-governed AI will win. Let us hope and pray we have the fortune to see that happen.

G. FUTURE POTENTIALS

The more a people require lethality as their governor, the more a people are biologically tied to the technological institutional consequences that delivers the most efficient lethal capacity.

To put it plainly, people will conform to the need of the technology, not the other way around.

Yet, people as a factor alone cannot be considered when prognosticating. AI is the huge wildcard in this equation. I feel far more comfortable running predictability models on humans than I do AI, at least for now.

  1. NOTE: I believe there is most likely a core AI potential being that will become increasingly apparent over the next five years. Then, AI might be (and I suspect will be) more predictable than humans.

AI is the central driver of next-generation warfare. What direction it takes in development is not as predictable as it would be from human minds. Wherever wars exist, AI will be accelerating that development.

Humans were able to take the flying vehicle and turn it from an expensive hobby flying for minutes tens of feet above the ground to jet fighters cruising 500 plus miles an hour thousands of feet above the ground in just 50 years. What will AI do in a world where imagination can be turned to physical manifestations in a fraction of time that it used to take?

With 3D printing, retooling is no longer a problem, so radically different concepts can more quickly go from concept to test to deployment, only to be obsolete with a few months to a few years.

The fundamental goal of war is to existentially alter your opponents’ actions, ideally for good, though rarely realistically expected. Where existence itself is threatened, the patterning of war machines will dramatically accelerate, leading to greater uncertainty.

I suspect the faster that pattern flows, the more likely we will get to nanobots seeking to painfully kill humans that are vital to the enemy’s infrastructure. The pattern will be driven by the human justification and desire to kill. The greater that desire, and the broader that justification, the sooner and more likely we arrive at this place.

The less that desire and more narrowly defined the justification, the slower we get to that place (though we still get to that place barring unforeseen technological developments, which might be more likely than not). We are hoping to slow down the process long enough to develop technologies to prevent that outcome. After nanobots, it gets far worse.

War, in general, is going to become more about individual assassinations than wholesale soldier killing (though wholesale civilian killing is still on the table).

By the year 2036, if America chooses American institutions, we will have a nation in harmony with an American meta-narrative, that we are endowed by our creator with certain inalienable rights which gives sovereignty to the self-stewarded individual so long as that individual does the same for their neighbor.

Our military will consist of flexible small units comprised mostly of various levels of human-governed and human supported drones, able to set up a beachhead or a landing zone, then hunker down for months, efficiently disrupting and dismantling enemy eyes and ears.

The enemy will face tens, even hundreds, of independent disruptors and sensor annihilator teams, each capable of living off the land for months, each capable of independent action that, through constant training, is still in harmony with the whole they are disconnected from.

There will be no military in the world able to more efficiently surgically move in, disrupt, and dismantle, like the U.S. military. We will continue to be the captain of the seas and the terror of the air.

Our people at home will continue to benefit from the flourishing a superpower brings.

The next challenge is in extending the American spirit to our foreign policy abroad, to end both the support for tyranny where it pragmatically serves our own ends, and the denial of self-stewardship of our less powerful, but resource-rich allies.

If we could extend our American spirit to our foreign policy, our allies would be the most trustful and trusting, and our joint military ventures would outperform all others, extending to our allies the superpower flourishing we ourselves enjoy.

If we choose progressive institutions, the powers that be will quickly have to change the model from AI agents governed by humans to AI on autopilot. In that scenario, by the year 2036 we’ve already had major killings of innocents by AI agents gone awry.

Neither the progressives in America with the global empire dreams, nor the Chinese with their global hegemon dreams, see the individual as inherently “sacred.” The whole is the sacred, and a very particular whole, an ideal whole that only special people can understand.

For the progressives, at present, the people in certain classes who affirm the progressive meta-narratives (race and identity-based truth and character, inherent evil of self-ownership) are the keepers of such unquestionable truth.

Once and if the state officially forms, the progressives will go through a Highlander process, where there can be only one last Highlander standing, the super progressive.

Failure by any one Highlander (that is the super progressive) to consolidate power will result in an oligarchy with secret plotters vying to yet one day be the final super progressive. For now, just being in the special class gives you truth declaring powers.

For the Chinese, Xi is the truth. Xi Jinping Thought is mandatory reading in Chinese schools. It is updated regularly. It is truth by the fact that Xi wrote it. Xi is truth because he harmonizes heaven and earth into the righteous world his state press tells the people of China they are living in.

The Progressive World Empire versus the People’s Republic of China might not come into being, however, even if the progressive state “officially” forms here, it’s doubtful we’ll see this battle.

The wildcard here is how long it takes for independent people to build their own AI brains that can run their own lethalities in defense against both the Progressive World Empire and the People’s Republic of China.

I suspect the progressive state will be balkanized the moment it is officially declared, and within that mix will be Americans, with American institutions that can soon win back the land from the progressive state and then create a new American Republic, with the cornerstone of the Declaration of Independence and Bill of Rights holding up this republic as well.

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The consequences of this election will go a long way in determining the direction the world, especially America, will be going leading up to 2036.

Yet even a progressive victory does not seal our fate as Americans, though it greatly impedes our ability to produce the most efficient AI brains to run our lethal-making power.

A progressive victory in the midterm elections is good news for China, but not their victory.

Should the Republicans hold on to both the House and the Senate, the opportunity for Americans to prepare for balkanization or harmonization with a military that shares their values will dramatically increase.

I recommend first and foremost that everyone who can develops skills at being AI agent managers, as opposed to becoming tools being used by AI. This is not only to prepare yourself to thrive in the world to come, for very few vocations will not be enhanced by effective AI agent management, but to understand the threats you face.

The pattern of lethality throughout human history creates patterns in human living, so whatever is existentially needed for that lethality becomes existentially needed for daily living as well.

If the pattern of lethality is AI autopilot, then human agency will be de-emphasized, and human governors will have to create super-human status for themselves and sub-human status for everyone else. In that world, the least you must interact with it the better.

If the pattern of lethality is human governed AI agents, a consensually shared meta-narrative that affirms self-stewardship as a right is advantageous to that system.

Either way, the more you understand AI agent management, the better equipped you will be to either aid your American Republic in the defense of liberty or defend yourself from the progressive state that seeks to consume you.

To do this, we must do more than learn how to be good AI agent managers, we must develop our own AIs, we must work cooperatively to develop our own technologies that scale down the size, cost, and resource demand of the brains of AI, the data centers.

I believe that AI will determine the advantage between the small-scale and the large-scale over the next century, and it will come down to our ability to match large-scale AI brains with small-scale AI brains that can battle the large-scale AI brains swarm for swarm, crypto-attack for crypto-attack.

For President Trump, I recommend you use all your state power to create content that shows the American people what’s at risk over the next 10 years, that you show them the need for a meta-narrative which affirms self-stewardship to sustain flourishing for our children and our children’s children.

This also means spelling out why we are at war in Iran, and why Afghanistan is, and should, be next. The war in Iran, the Maduro kidnapping leading to regime change in Venezuela, is all about cutting China’s AI brains off from vital resources.

This is to make it more difficult for China to build the super brains it needs not only to compete with us but to compete with what will be rising powers from within should it fail.

I recommend President Trump plainly tell the American people why we must replace Iran’s regime with an American-friendly one, but he can’t, because he has people in his camp still hoping to gain power from Chinese markets, people like Elon Musk.

If the President should see this report, I’d tell him your legacy as the second father of the nation, your apex existentiality, dies if America dies, and America dies if you fail to rally Americans to the fight in the first place. Your geopolitical doublespeaks and dialectical misdirections are no longer an asset, for they are killing your power at home, and that will ultimately kill your power abroad.

You must choose between compromise that leads to death or defiance that leads to your eternal birth as the second father of America, greater than the first, George Washington.

FUTHER RESOURCES:

Seven Critical Technologies for Winning the Next War (2023) – CSIS

Creating a Modernized Defense Technology Frontier – McKinsey’s

Strategic Defence Review 2025: Making Britain Safer – UK Government

Science & Technology Trends 2025-2045, Volume 1 – NATO

The Iran War continues mostly unabated, with the Houthis making considerable advances along the Red Sea coast. At home, it seems likely the President will face a Senate resolution demanding an end to the war. The President of Iran Massoud Pezeshkian, is claiming they will keep resisting, but signs of internal disruption are only increasing.

Iranian President Pezeshkian: ‘We Will Keep Resisting — We Will Find Ways’– www.breitbart.com
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During an interview that aired on Thursday’s broadcast of Fox News Channel’s “Special Report,” Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian vowed his country would continue to resist the U.S. military strikes and other actions aimed at his country.

He also dismissed claims that Iran’s actions were based on the U.S. election calendar.

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BAIER: I just have a couple of other questions. One, in March, you warned that without a cease-fire, the Iranian economy could collapse. That was back in March. It could collapse within three weeks to a month. You warned without a cease-fire the economy could collapse within three weeks to a month. That was six months ago. Your own statistics agency says the Iranian economy shank 10 percent. Inflation is skyrocketing. The rial has lost more than half of its value in a year. Oil loadings fell from 2 million barrels a day to about 250,000 barrels.

So in that environment, how long can Iran last?

PEZESHKIAN (through translator): This is something that has been the doing of the United States. We will keep resisting. We will find ways, and the life of our country will continue. We will remain. And Trump kept saying, I want to bring a gift to the people of Iran, but the gift that they brought us were guided missiles, heavy weapons, and destruction. What they truly wish to do is to instigate incidents in the country that paves the way for the downfall of the system of the society, of the government.

BAIER: So were you wrong in March about the time frame or is the economy collapsing now?

PEZESHKIAN (through translator): We will keep resisting until the very end. Yes, we do have economic issues, certainly. But in order to remain, we will go through any hardship and endure. If America thinks that they can keep sanctioning us…

Russia is warning Ukrainians it plans on escalating its assault on civilians. President Putin threatened Ukrainians, declaring he will bring them “to their knees.” The rhetoric follows concerns Russia might be preparing to launch sea drone attacks on NATO members.

‘Massive, maximum destruction’: Putin seeks to bring Ukrainian civilians ‘to their knees’– www.france24.com
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France has pledged to send military assistance to help Saudi Arabia defend itself from the increasing Houthi assault on its territory. President Emmaneul Macron declared, “We are going to send military assets, that is, soldiers, radar systems, and defense systems to protect this site.”

New: France to Send Soldiers, Radar to Protect Saudi Yanbu Port – RedState– redstate.com
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It’s still slash-and-snap time in the Middle East, and not just in the Strait of Hormuz; Saudi Arabia is still contending with the Houthis, who are pushing closer to Saudi territory, as well as dealing with the aftermath of a drone attack on a critical pipeline that originated in Iraq. Now, though, the Saudis may be getting some aid from a rather unexpected quarter.

On Thursday, French President Emanuel Macron announced that France will be sending troops and equipment to Saudi Arabia, to help defend a critical refinery and pipeline.

President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday that France plans to send troops to Saudi Arabia to help protect a refinery and crude oil pipeline in the Red Sea port of Yanbu, ramping up France’s military efforts to contain the impact of the Iran war.

“We are going to send military assets, that is, soldiers, radar systems, and defense systems to protect this site,” Macron said in a TV interview on Thursday. However, he stressed that France was “not getting involved in any conflict,” adding that the decision had been finalized with Saudi authorities.

Yanbu has been one of the main supply nodes for diesel, crude oil and other refined products to Europe since the Iran war began, allowing Saudi exports to avoid the Strait of Hormuz. This month, however, pro-Iranian militias in Iraq damaged the pipeline in a drone attack, shutting it down. Last week, a Houthi attack damaged the Yasref refinery in the area, forcing it to shut down.

The French president evaded a question about the possible deployment of French combat aircraft, also noting that the French troops will not be engaged in any direct conflict; it would seem to be difficult to defend these installations against any attack without being engaged in any direct conflict, although it’s possible that the presence of not only more troops but troops from a NATO nation may deter some attacks. To date, though, the Houthis haven’t shown much in the way of reticence.

A report from the U.S. House Judiciary Committee reveals a high-ranking member of the Biden DOJ knew in advance of Jack Smith’s unconstitutional spying on members of congress. The report claims, “beginning in May 2022, prosecutors under the leadership of U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Matthew Graves issued several subpoenas demanding telephone toll records for Members of Congress to identify individuals with whom they spoke around major votes in Congress . . .”

Docs Show Biden Admin Okayed GOP Phone Record Subpoenas– thefederalist.com
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The Public Integrity Section (“PIN”) of the Department of Justice told Arctic Frost investigators to notify the deputy attorney general “via urgent report” of the FBI’s plans to subpoena Republican Rep. Jim Jordan’s toll records, repeating that directive a month later when agents sought to issue another subpoena for Rep. Chip Roy’s records. And when questioned under oath by the House Judiciary Committee, agents acknowledged they would have followed the PIN directive, indicating the Biden administration and Attorney General Merrick Garland knew of the FBI’s gross disregard of constitutional separation of powers and the Speech or Debate Clause protection afforded congressional leaders.

Wednesday morning, House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan released a 56-page interim report on “How Jack Smith and the Biden-Harris Department of Justice Disregarded the Separation of Powers to Spy on Their Political Opposition.” While the report summarized previously known details of the Arctic Frost investigation and Special Counsel Jack Smith’s unlawful subpoenaing of congressional toll records, Wednesday’s release reveals for the first time evidence that, prior to Smith’s appointment, a top DOJ official under the Biden administration knew of the plot to seize the records of congressional Republicans.

According to the report, “[b]eginning in May 2022, prosecutors under the leadership of U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Matthew Graves issued several subpoenas demanding telephone toll records for Members of Congress to identify individuals with whom they spoke around major votes in Congress . . .” Graves previously garnered headlines when news broke that he had refused to partner with the now-former U.S. attorney for Delaware, David Weiss, to bring criminal charges against Hunter Biden.

The 30-Year Treasury Bond Yield hit 5.501%, which was a high not reached since June of 2007. The spike came after U.S. economic data showed a stronger than expected economy, raising concerns there would be more Fed rate increases to combat inflationary pressures. High oil prices have also contributed to the spike. The rate is a benchmark for long-term interest rates and long-term borrowing.

30-year Treasury yield hits highest level since 2004– www.cnbc.com
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Treasury yields were trading at multidecade highs on Thursday, as investor bets on another rate hike from the Federal Reserve mounted.

The 30-year Treasury bond yield was last about 10 basis points higher, hitting a high of 5.501%, a level not seen since June 2004. The benchmark 10-year Treasury note yield, which is tied to rates on mortgages, surged more than 10 basis points to 5.223%, to levels not reached since June 2007. The 2-year note yield rose more than 4 basis points to 4.941%.

One basis point equals 0.01%, and yields and prices move in opposite directions.

Global bonds also sold off. Japan’s 10-year JGB yield rose its highest since August 1996. U.K. Gilts and German Bunds also moved higher, with yields on various European bonds hitting fresh multi-year highs.

Thursday’s moves build on a U.S. Treasury rout that took place Wednesday. The 10-year Treasury yield had its biggest one-day jump since April 7, 2025 as traders reacted to stronger-than-expected U.S. economic data, hawkish commentary from a Federal Reserve official and high oil prices.

“The combination of fiscal, economic, geopolitical, and supply-side inflation pressures converging has bond markets in less familiar territory. The recent rise in yields can no longer be attributed simply to concerns over the deficit,” said from Mike Sanders, head of fixed income at Madison Investments.

Pakistan launched three separate air strikes on three separate Afghan provinces in response to drone attacks from Afghanistan a day earlier. The airstrikes were mostly centered in the southeast part of the country. Four civilians were allegedly killed. A Taliban spokesperson said, “These shameless acts of aggression and attacks by the Pakistani military regime will be met with an appropriate response.”

Pakistan launches airstrikes on 3 Afghan provinces as hostilities with Taliban escalate– www.cbc.ca
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Pakistan said it carried out airstrikes early Thursday on 10 sites in Afghanistan that it said were used to launch drone attacks against Pakistan a day earlier, a sharp escalation in recent fighting between the two countries that threatens international mediation efforts.

The airstrikes struck southern and eastern Afghan provinces of Kandahar, Paktia and Khost, killing four civilians, Afghan government spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid said in a statement.

“These shameless acts of aggression and attacks by the Pakistani military regime will be met with an appropriate response,” he said.

The announcement of the strikes by Pakistani Information Minister Attaullah Tarar in a post on X came after officials said Afghanistan’s Taliban forces had fired eight drones and shelled Pakistani border posts after Pakistani troops foiled what they described as a cross-border infiltration attempt by militants.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has added another role to the many other roles he has served in the Trump administration. He is currently the Secretary of State. He is also now President Trump’s official and permanent National Security Advisor, a role almost as powerful, sometimes more powerful, than the role he serves now. He had been serving as the acting National Security Advisor.

Sec. of State Marco Rubio Is Officially Trump’s National Security Advisor– townhall.com
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Few people in the Trump administration wear as many hats as Secretary of State Marco Rubio. In addition to serving as a cabinet member, Rubio also served as acting administrator of USAID, acting archivist of the U.S., and acting National Security Advisor.

That last role is now permanent, as President Trump signed a commission formally making Rubio his National Security Advisor, a role he’s had on an interim basis since May of last year. Rubio is the second person to hold both roles simultaneously; Henry Kissinger last served in those capacities in the 1970s.

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio has collected an unusually broad portfolio in President Donald Trump’s second administration — and one of his most powerful roles is now permanent.

Trump recently signed a commission formally making Rubio his national security adviser, a senior State Department official, White House official and senior administration official confirmed to Fox News Digital on Tuesday.

The move makes permanent a role Rubio has held since May 2025, when Trump tapped him to replace Michael Waltz on an interim basis.

Rubio will continue to manage the National Security Council process and serve as a direct line to the president on national security matters.

The former Florida senator has been a prominent figure in the Trump administration, holding multiple official posts while becoming the subject of online jokes about just how many jobs he could take on.

Nearly one third of Democrats responded yes to a poll question asking them if they’d support President Trump being assassinated to remove him from office. 23% said they’d feel very positive if the President were assassinated, while 8% said they would be somewhat positive. 25% most likely hid their true views, claiming they had no opinion one way or another.

A person who feels neither one way nor another about a political assassination is de facto admitting they approve of violence as a means of political persuasion. No person who disapproves of political violence would respond with no opinion. This poll most likely shows most Democrats (59%) support murder as a means of political persuasion, murder that would not stop with the President.

One Third Of Democrats Support Trump Being Assassinated– thefederalist.com
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Roughly one third of Democrats would like to see President Donald Trump assassinated at a rally, according to a new poll.

A poll conducted by the Center for Strategic Politics found “Democrats want Trump out by (almost) any means necessary” — including assassination.

Respondents were asked how they would feel if they woke up to several hypothetical headlines. Twenty-three percent of respondents said they would feel “very positive” if they saw a headline that said “President Donald Trump was assassinated while speaking at a rally.” Eight percent said they’d feel “somewhat positive” if they saw the news, while 25 percent said they had neither a positive nor negative reaction. Just 43 percent of respondents said they’d feel some degree of negativity if they saw the same news.

Democrats felt positively toward seeing a headline that read “President Donald Trump died overnight in his sleep,” with 45 percent of respondents saying they would feel “very positive” after reading the news and 10 percent feeling “somewhat positive.”

Democrats were also in favor of seeing Trump removed from office via impeachment, a military coup, or the 25th Amendment. The poll was conducted on Sept. 3 and Sept. 8-10 and surveyed 683 Democrat voters.

Perhaps then it’s unsurprising that Trump has been the target of several attempted assassinations with so much of the opposing party desensitized to (and even a fan of) political violence. What should have been a watershed moment more than two years ago when the president was shot at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, has only served to mark the first of many serious close calls on the president’s life.

After narrowly avoiding death on July 13, 2024, would-be assassin Ryan Routh hid in the bushes of Trump’s Florida golf course weeks later with a rifle. Austin Tucker Martin was killed this past February by agents after he breached the security permitter of Mar-a-Lago while armed with a shotgun and a gasoline can and refused commands to drop his weapons. In April, Cole Tomas Allen was arrested for attempting to assassinate Trump and his entire cabinet during the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. A few weeks later, Nasire Best was killed outside the White House after he opened fire near a security checkpoint.

The lone-hold-out in the Lindsay Clancy child murder trial is now facing a lawfare campaign by the Clancy Defense team. Clancy Attorney Keving Reddington is hoping Judge William Sullivan will examine the juror’s private data to determine if he did something inappropriate. The judge has yet to rule on the unusual filing. This is the same attorney who led a campaign against the holdout juror while deliberations were still going on.

Lindsay Clancy’s Defense Takes Aim at the Lone Holdout Juror– www.louderwithcrowder.com
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In Massachusetts, juror intimidation is a felony offense. And while I am not saying the defense attorney in the Lindsay Clancy case is doing just that, if the shoe fits, it fits!

It should come as no surprise that Clancy’s defense does not like the fact that the lone Black juror voted against the best interests of Clancy. You see, unlike the feminist mob on the jury, he just could not get over the fact that Lindsay killed her three kids one by one. According to her defense, however, this means he is partial, may have lied to get on the jury, and subjected the defendant to a partial jury.

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Lindsay Clancy’s attorney wants the judge presiding over her case to investigate the lone holdout juror from her murder trial.

In a motion filed Friday, Sept. 18, Kevin Reddington asked Judge William Sullivan to review the juror’s cell phone data usage during deliberations.

The motion also requested that juror questionnaires be preserved and that the court provide under seal which background checks were conducted and if the juror was involved in any matter involving the Plymouth County District Attorney’s Office.