Was this Email Forwarded to You? Subscribe! U.S. Soldiers maneuver through smoke during a live-fire exercise at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington, March 4, 2026. (Credit: U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Elijah Magaña) SIGNIFICANT ACTIVITIES Younger Veterans Carry Far More 'Forever Chemicals' Than Other Americans Younger military veterans carry far higher levels of toxic "forever chemicals" in their blood than other Americans their age, a Brown and Harvard study found. About half of veterans aged...
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Was this Email Forwarded to You? Subscribe! (Photo courtesy of Dino Garner / Crucibeljournal.com) SIGNIFICANT ACTIVITIES The House Is Sound, the Wiring Is Not SOFX contributor Dino Garner, edited by SOFX founder Sam Havelock, examines whether the turmoil at the Pentagon, including the removal of more than two dozen senior officers and cuts to promotion lists, points to anyone secretly directing events. Drawing on primary election results, probability models of secrecy, and the record of which...
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Was this Email Forwarded to You? Subscribe! Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine (DoW Photo by Benjamin Applebaum) SIGNIFICANT ACTIVITIES U.S. Forces Must Prepare to Be ‘Hunted’ by Autonomous Drones, Top General Says U.S. forces must assume they will be hunted by autonomous systems, jammed across the electromagnetic spectrum and tracked in real time, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine said as he urged the military to prepare for AI-driven warfare. Caine cited...
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Was this Email Forwarded to You? Subscribe! (Credit: YunSheYing / Shutterstock) SIGNIFICANT ACTIVITIES Satellite Images Point to a Chinese Mothership for Giant Underwater Drones Satellite images of a shipyard in Shanghai show an unusual vessel that Naval News assesses to be the world's first mothership built to carry and launch large underwater drones. Beijing has not acknowledged the ship or its purpose. From the imagery, analysts describe a stern dock and a dozen arms that lower drones into...
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Was this Email Forwarded to You? Subscribe! A U.S. Air Force F-15E Strike Eagle aircraft deploys flares after refueling from a U.S. Air Force KC-135 Stratotanker aircraft in the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility Aug. 19, 2026. (U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. James K. Thomas) SIGNIFICANT ACTIVITIES Footage Shows Rescue of U.S. Airmen Shot Down Over Iran Declassified videos released by the U.S. military show the rescue of two U.S. Air Force airmen after their F-15E Strike Eagle...
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Was this Email Forwarded to You? Subscribe! A Ukrainian soldier with the 61st Mechanized Brigade stands beside an unmanned ground vehicle at sunset. (Credit: 61st Mechanized Brigade) SIGNIFICANT ACTIVITIES Ukraine Opens Covert Front Against Russia's Mercenaries in Africa Ukraine has quietly expanded its fight against Russia into Africa, sending drone specialists to help local forces battle the Africa Corps, Moscow's successor to the Wagner Group, CNN reported. About 15 Ukrainian drone...
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Was this Email Forwarded to You? Subscribe! Aerial view of a major pipeline installation and infrastructure project across the arid desert landscape outside Riyadh (credit: Leonid Andronov / Shutterstock.com) SIGNIFICANT ACTIVITIES Saudi Arabia Shuts Its Hormuz-Bypass Pipeline After Strike Saudi Arabia shut down its East-West crude pipeline on Thursday after drone strikes on pumping stations injured several people. Riyadh blamed drones from Iraq but named no group. The line lets crude reach...
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Was this Email Forwarded to You? Subscribe! (Photo courtesy of Dino Garner / Crucibeljournal.com) SIGNIFICANT ACTIVITIES The Fence With No Gate China's coast guard spent the summer working the Pacific side of Taiwan, the ocean-facing coast any resupply from Japan or Guam would need. Cutters there hailed merchant ships for their crew counts, and a Singapore-flagged container ship answered. The pattern comes from a CRUCIBEL Journal assessment adapted for SOFX by Dino Garner, whose team now...
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Was this Email Forwarded to You? Subscribe! (Credit: Algi Febri Sugita / Shutterstock.com) SIGNIFICANT ACTIVITIES Anthropic Researchers Warn AI Could Kill All Humans Within a Decade Jacob Coxon, a former OpenAI and Anthropic researcher, warned that people developing AI believe the technology could kill everyone by the end of the decade. He said both companies are moving too quickly toward self-improving AI without adequately addressing the risks. Anthropic alignment-science lead Evan Hubinger...
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