The Ghosts of the Iraq War Still Haunt Me, and Our Foreign Policy
RespStatecraft As a young National Guardsman I reported for duty on March 21, 2003. Why are there still troops there today?
Day: March 22, 2025
Pentagon Fast-Tracks AI Into Drone Swarm Defense
Kris Osborn, Warrior Maven Drone swarm attacks are designed to be essentially indefensible
Boeing Wins Air Force Contract for NGAD Next-Gen Fighter F-47
Breaking Defense Boeing’s selection to produce the Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) fighter is a game-changer for the company’s challenged defense arm.
France Rejects Backdoor Mandate
The French National Assembly has rejected a controversial provision that would have forced messaging platforms like Signal and WhatsApp to allow government access to encrypted private conversations, lawmakers voted Thursday night. The measure, embedded…
UK should step in to fund scheme tracing Ukrainian children, say Lib Dems
Ministers urged to act after US ended support to help locate an estimated 20,000 children taken to RussiaThe Liberal Democrats are urging the government to provide replacement funding to an American project that locates Ukrainian children kidnapped by …
Turkey protests intensify as detained Istanbul mayor faces second day of questioning
Defying a ban on public rallies, demonstrators took to the streets in Istanbul, Ankara and several Turkish cities for a third night to protest the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoglu, a popular opposition politician and key challenger to Turkish …
What do we know about the new F-47 fighter?
While much of the aircraft’s specifications remain classified, here’s what we know so far.
The post What do we know about the new F-47 fighter? first appeared on UK Defence Journal.
The lost-for-over-100-years sculpture found under a dust sheet
This week on The Sound Kitchen you’ll hear the answer to the question about Camille Claudel’s sculpture. There’s a lovely spring poem from RFI Listeners Club member Helmut Matt, The Sound Kitchen mailbag, “The Listener’s Corner” with Paul Myers, and E…
“Wild, Multi-Layered Magic”: Elon Musk’s Ex-Wife Describes Their Daughter
In an interview with Teen Vogue, Ms Justine couldn’t get tired of praising her daughter, saying, “Vivian has always had an uncompromising sense of who she is – and who she needs to be.”
Russian drone pilots hunting down Ukrainian civilians on the streets: ‘Like playing a computer game’
Ukrainians living in bombed-out Kherson tell world affairs editor Sam Kiley how Russian drones target them as they go about their daily lives – and how their brutal injuries are cared for in a hospital forced underground