#military-industrial-complex

#military-industrial-complex

On Monday, one week after six U.S. soldiers were killed by a drone strike in Kuwait, the Trump brothers announced they are backing a company called Powerus, which makes drones to operate in "high-risk environments," such as a war or whatever euphemisms lawmakers are using for Donald Trump's attack on Iran this week.

What many in the West perceived as a strategic blunder is increasingly seen in Moscow as a costly but necessary and ultimately successful gamble. As the all-out war in Ukraine enters its fifth year, Russian political elites remain convinced that their leader, Vladimir Putin, did not make a grave error by launching it in February 2022. Instead, they are looking back with a sense of achievement, and they have good reason to believe that the war is ending on their terms, perhaps even soon.

If the phrase "military industrial complex romantic comedy" rings your bells, Hailey Gates' feature directorial debut " Atropia" just might be for you. What if we told you it's also a bit of a satire? And it's based on real events and places? And it stars Alia Shawkat and Callum Turner, whose forbidden romance really blossoms inside the confines of, well, no spoilers here, but a decidedly unsexy space?

"Now, high-quality space systems are mandatory, but they're not relevant if we wait for them to be near-perfect before we put them in the hands of warfighters,"

lethal autonomous weapons, that is weapons that decide by themselves who to kill or maim, are a big advantage if a rich country wants to invade a poor country. The thing that stops rich countries invading poor countries is their citizens coming back in body bags, If you have lethal autonomous weapons, instead of dead people coming back, you'll get dead robots coming back.

Grady Means, a product of California's defense-driven economy, illustrates the intertwining of personal ambition and federal support, showcasing the era's optimism.