Author: Filio Ganide

PROLOGUE: THE INFORMATION WAR In 1950, Sen. Joseph McCarthy claimed that he had proof of a communist spy ring operating inside the government. Overnight, the explosive accusations blew up in the national press, but the details kept changing. Initially, McCarthy said he had a list with the names of 205 communists in the State Department; the next day he revised it to 57. Since he kept the list a secret, the inconsistencies were beside the point. The point was the power of the accusation, which made McCarthy’s name synonymous with the politics of the era. For more than half a…

The Army now has a permanent garrison in Poland, a major milestone underscoring that country’s central role as a hub of NATO support for Ukraine’s fight against invading Russian forces. Thus far, however, the garrison is shaping up to be a fraction of the size of the service’s other installations in three other European countries, all of which are much farther from Russian territory. The Army’s V Corps, headquartered at Fort Knox, Kentucky, has had a forward presence at Camp Kosciuszko in Poland since 2020, largely to manage logistics of the Pentagon’s sprawling mission in the region bolstering NATO’s front lines. President Joe…

OpenAI, the company behind the popular chatbot ChatGPT, has crunched the numbers on different jobs’ exposure to artificial intelligence (AI) – and those numbers are eye-opening. Using its latest machine learning language model (LLM), the recently released GPT-4, as well as human expertise, researchers investigated the potential implications of language models on occupations within the US job market. While the researchers stress the paper is not a prediction, they found around 80 per cent of the US workforce could have at least 10 per cent of their work tasks affected by GPTs, or Generative Pre-trained Transformers. Around 19 per cent…

Bomb shelters across Russia are undergoing systematic inspections and repairs following a Kremlin order to upgrade the country’s crumbling Soviet-era infrastructure, according to current and former officials who spoke to The Moscow Times. Many of Russia’s thousands of bunkers, reinforced cellars and other safe hideouts have been mothballed for decades. But as the war in Ukraine drags on, local authorities appear to be spending hundreds of millions of rubles to again make them fit for habitation. “A decision to inspect the network of bomb shelters was made by the government in the spring,” said one Russian official, citing knowledge of…

In an interesting twist to the excruciating task of arming Ukraine against Russia, Greece has offered to transfer its S-300 surface-to-air missile (SAM) system to Kiev/Kyiv – in exchange for Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) as a replacement. Interestingly, this development comes when the Biden administration is finalizing plans to send a Patriot system to Ukraine after months of Ukrainian demands and consternation in Washington. Interestingly, the Greeks want to deploy the Patriot missiles on the island of Crete. This is the same island on which a Greek S-300 allegedly “locked” Turkish F-16 fighters on August 23 this year. Greece needs advanced SAM systems in…