The U.S. Army's McAlester Army Ammunition Plant in Oklahoma, one of the country's main bomb-making sites, will manufacture and load explosive payloads for drones built by Perennial Autonomy, the drone company backed by former Google CEO Eric Schm
The proposed $1.5 military budget for next year is only the tip of the iceberg. Actual military spending and military-related spending will bring the bill up closer to $2.5 trillion. Is this sustainable? Also today: Trump is sending another Carrier G
The mates sit down with Palmer Luckey on Moonshots Live to discuss autonomous weapons, AI risk, Anduril's approach to humanoids, the real threats posed by AI, VR's peak, and what's next for the future of technology.
You know about the missing trillions, right? You know, the $2.3 trillion missing from the Pentagon's coffers that was announced to the public on September 10, 2001, and then never mentioned again? …Of course, if that IS your understanding of the
The vastness of the American Empire is built upon a mountain of civilian corpses and an ocean of innocent blood. Despite historical revisionism to the contrary, US imperialism remains the greatest threat to world peace.
Five months of on and off US bombing of Iran has left the US in a worse position than when the war began. Iran now controls the Strait of Hormuz. Most if not all US bases in the Gulf region are destroyed or seriously damaged. Billions of dollars wort
This past weekend, Israel Prime Minister Netanyahu was brimming with confidence that the U.S. and Israeli militaries would be merged into a unified partnership by the U.S. Congress due to the presence of Section 224 in the NDAA. But on Tuesday, Netan
Dropsite news broke a story yesterday that President Trump's envoys to Ukraine/Russia and the Middle East - his son-in-law Jared Kushner and his real estate developer friend Steve Witkoff - have been spending most of their time trying to make a buck
"If Section 219 is signed into law, the American people should see it as Congress fully capitulating our nation's autonomy to foreign influence." Khanna, once the committee killed the measure, wrote:
While Trump Administration officials continue to provide low-ball figures for how much the Iran war has cost the United States, a thorough look at this "most unpopular war in US history" reveals an astronomical price tag that will only get bigger ove
When it was reported that Wegmans grocery stores were utilizing facial recognition technology (FRT) to collect data on their customers, the company declined to disclose the software-end of its surveillance machine.
Last week "Secretary of War" Pete Hegseth insulted Americans by claiming that a 50 percent increase in the US military budget – from an incomprehensible one trillion dollars to an impossible one and a half trillion – was a "fiscally respons
From $225 million in fiscal year 2026 to $54.6 BILLION in fiscal 2027: a 24,300 percent increase! The "agentic AI infrastructure that enables battle management and kill chain execution at machine speed" is being developed at scale with drone syst
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's claim that the Iran war has cost the US $25 billion is laughable. The actual cost according to a new study is at least three times more than that. And that leaves out other costs such as opportunity costs. And what di
Vietnam War economics, military-industrial complex, Bretton Woods collapse--this deep dive tracks how Gulf of Tonkin escalation turned into a profit engine. We unpack military Keynesianism, cost-plus-award-fee contracts, RMK-BRJ no-bid deals, Agent
The U.S. military's 55-day war with Iran has alarmingly drawn down several categories of high-end air-delivered munitions, forcing the Department of War to draw from critical stockpiles in Asia and Europe.