The Joint Force Is Buying Autonomy Faster Than It Can Measure Whether It Can Fight Without It

Every automated system the joint force fields is a system an adversary will try to switch off. The neglected question is not whether anyone can still fight when it goes dark, but whether the force knows, unit by unit and service by service, who can.

Earlier this year, in an expansive training area, soldiers from one brigade loaded an autonomous ground vehicle and watched it move supplies forward without a driver. It worked.

Across the joint force, the same story is repeating with different hardware: autonomous resupply, AI-assisted targeting, machine-speed sensor fusion, uncrewed systems threaded through nearly every warfighting function. The Air Force is developing collaborative combat aircraft to fly alongside crewed fighters, and the Navy is teaching uncrewed surface vessels to cross oceans. The American military is fielding autonomy at a pace that would have seemed fantastical a decade ago, and much of it works as advertised.

That success

Topline: Susan Noel, the former clerk and treasurer of the Town of Washington, Oklahoma, allegedly used public funds to buy a puppy, sofa, vacuum cleaner, electric dog clippers, and much more.

Nearly a third of the small town's spending in a four-year period was “fraudulent or unauthorized," according to a new report by State Auditor Cindy Byrd, who called the scandal "the worst example of board oversight I have seen in my 29 years of government auditing experience."

Key facts: The audit alleges that Noel stole $676,368 from the town from 2020 to 2024. That included $267,160 used to pay off her and her husband's personal Bank of America credit cards, $191,777 worth of PayPal payments, and purchases at Lowe's and Amazon.

Noel also used her town debit card for almost $30,000 of "payments for the purchase, grooming,

The New York Times has lamented the distressing duty fulfilled by an anti-Trump judge appointed by Barack Obama who had to, as part of his judicial duties, dismiss the Jan. 6 protest cases against members of the Oath Keepers.

He was “pained,” the publication complained.

The judge, Amit Mehta, also lashed out at the Trump administration’s request to dismiss the case because he said it was “unearned grace” for the defendants by “wiping their records clean.”

Mehta complained that the events of that day, a protest turned into a riot at the Capitol, which sustained vandalism damage, caused immense damage to the people there as well as politics.

The Times confirmed the

Democrats’ lawfare against President Donald Trump multiple times was based on “facts” that had the patina of possible truth, that is, they were allegations made and while unlikely, had not yet been disproven.

Like the claims in Russiagate that he conspired with Russia during the 2016 election, claims that later were debunked entirely.

Now a new report from the Federalist reveals the leftist party’s agenda to attack Trump became so virulent that members even used claims that were known to be false to base a new investigation.

The report said it involved a “subcomponent investigation” of Crossfire Hurricane, the Russian collusion hoax.

While an endorsement from Donald Trump is usually election gold for Republicans, a little-known candidate for a swing House seat crushed the president’s pick despite having dropped out of the race a month ago and barely campaigning.

In the Republican primary for Michigan’s Eighth Congressional District, retired engineer Tom Smith, who reportedly spent less than $2,000 campaigning, collected 50.4% of the vote compared to Trump-backed Navy veteran Amir Hassan who had 33.2%.

“I fell short last night,” Hassan said Wednesday in a video recorded in his car. “I make no excuse. It was a tough race.”

“I know what God has in store for me is something greater,

President Donald Trump says the Democrat primary win by Abdulrahman Mohammad El-Sayed for the Michigan U.S. Senate race is a good thing.

The National Republican Senatorial Committee dropped an ad describing him as a terrorist-supporting activist whose friends believe America “deserved” 9/11 and who wants to tax waitresses and delivery drivers only minutes after the announcement.

And one of El-Sayed’s endorsers, his “bestie boo, streamer and nepo-nephew Hasan Piker,” dropped a foul-mouth rant in which he seemed unable to complete a sentence without multiple uses of the F-word, calling those who didn’t support El-Sayed “unbelievably Islamophobic pieces of s***.'”

The NRSC debuts first attack ad in the US Senate Michigan race against Abdul El-Sayed pic.twitter.com/d3N3RB3CGT

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