Morning Brief: Kurdish Strikes Escalate Iran Conflict, Pressure Mounts on Cuba, Ukraine Offers Drone Defense

Morning Brief: Kurdish Strikes Escalate Iran Conflict, Pressure Mounts on Cuba, Ukraine Offers Drone Defense

Iran expanded cross-border strikes against Kurdish militant groups as regional tensions escalate, while U.S. officials say munitions stocks remain sufficient for sustained operations. In the Western Hemisphere, Cuba faces mounting economic pressure amid power outages and a collapse in tourism revenue, while Ukraine offers its drone interception expertise to Gulf states confronting Iranian unmanned threats.

The Pentagon’s Favorite Digital Assassin: The ‘Claude’ Anthropic Standoff

The Pentagon’s Favorite Digital Assassin: The ‘Claude’ Anthropic Standoff

While Silicon Valley argues over guardrails and democratic values, the Department of War is wiring artificial intelligence straight into the kill chain, building a sleepless digital hunter that watches every pixel, maps every pattern of life, and waits patiently for the one anomaly that turns a red dot into a smoking crater.

Hegseth Forces Out Senior Pentagon Public Affairs Officer

Hegseth Forces Out Senior Pentagon Public Affairs Officer

Pete Hegseth’s push to remove a senior Army spokesman has exposed a quiet power struggle inside the Pentagon, where promotions, past loyalties, and politics are colliding in ways the Army is not eager to explain.