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America’s Digital Achilles’ Heel

The United States’ Reliance on Sensitive Technology Leaves It Vulnerable to Attacks For all its tremendous benefits, digital technology carries innumerable downsides. Cellphones enable location tracking that erodes privacy. Data can be manipulated and destroyed. Mechanical systems can be hijacked by a malicious actor who finds chinks in their digital …

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Iran’s New Patrons

Why China and Russia Are Stepping Up Their Support On assuming power in 1979, Iran’s revolutionaries prided themselves on rejecting the global order. Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the country’s first supreme leader, declared that his state would be “neither East nor West.” Khomeini viewed the United States as “the Great Satan”—the …

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US top general talks Syria, NATO with new Turkey counterpart

Gen. Mark Milley’s first announced call with newly appointed Turkish armed forces chief Metin Gurak follows reports that the United States is exploring alternate routes for Ukraine’s grain exports. Washington’s outgoing top general, Mark Milley, spoke by phone Wednesday with his counterpart in Turkey, Metin Gurak, in their first announced …

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