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2026 DEFENSE BUDGET
U.S. National Security Budget tops $1 Trillion;
Prioritizes China, Missiles, Missile Defense, Drones, Shipbuilding
July 14, 2025 | 8 min | Straight Arrow News
General Jack Keane on whether
the US could ‘win a war’ against China
May 2025 | 4 min | Sky News Australia
NATO CHIEF
China's Military Expansion means NATO must be More Lethal - says NATO Chief
June 9, 2025 | 2 min | Chatham House
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NATO CHIEF
Russia Could Be Ready to Use Military Force Against NATO by 2030 - says NATO Chief
June 9, 2025 | 1 min | Chatham House
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AI & Drones are two different things, but sometimes, more recently, they are starting to be used together. Drone Technology has definitely become a part of modern warfare, from its use in surveillance to its use as delivery platforms for weapons. Drones have been human controlled, FPV (First-Person View) Drones, but more recent advancements is making them autonomous, under various levels of AI (Artificial Intelligence) controls. From the Front Line, to the Supply Line, to the Home Front - AI is also being used in other areas like surveillance and early detection to logistics, accounting, and processing of large amounts of data.
FEATURED
AI in the Military - The Future of Warfare
- General Mark Milley, Former Chairman
of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Oct 2023 | 4 min | CBS 60 Minutes
U.S. vs. China: The Design and Technology Behind Military Drones
Nov 2021 | 7 min | Wall St Journal
The Manta Ray: How America's Futuristic Underwater Drone will Change Warfare
July 2024 | 19 min | Megaprojects
Inside the U.S. Navy's Cutting-Edge Drone Boat Tech
Jan 2023 | 9 min | Wall St Journal
SEE ALSO: Chinese Threats to Navigation, Freedom of the Seas
CSIS Chart: China Dominates the Shipbuilding Industry (world shipbuilding chart) - March 2025
CSIS Report: Ship Wars: Confronting China’s Dual-Use Shipbuilding Empire (downloads, audio option) - March 2025
CSIS Report: The Threat of China’s Shipbuilding Empire (audio option) - May 2024
Newsweek: Map Shows America's Shipyards Disappear as China's Naval Empire Rises - March 2025
CNN: US can’t keep up with China’s warship building, Navy Secretary says - Feb 2023
Freedom of Navigation Operations (FONOPs)
2 min
How One Company Wants to Help the US Navy Create a ‘Hellscape’ in the Pacific
May 21, 2025 | 10 min | Straight Arrow News
Port Alpha: The US Navy's Astonishing Next-Gen Shipyard
May 19, 2025 | 20 min | Megaprojects
FEATURED
China's Plan to Dominate the Seas
Nov 2024 | 15 min | DW News
How China Came to Dominate Global Shipbuilding
April 2025 | 11 min | Bloomberg
How China's $100B+ Shipbuilding Empire Dominates
April 2024 | 8 min | Wall St. Journal
How the World's Largest Shipyard in South Korea is Challenging China's Dominance
Sept 2024 | 7 min | Wall St. Journal
DETAILED INDUSTRY ANALYSIS
Review of Trump's Executive Order on Shipbuilding (White House Fact Sheet)
April 2025 | 35 min | What's Going on With Shipping?
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SEE ALSO: China's Economic Warfare
The U.S. Trade Imbalance with China, Wall Street Investors, and loose Government Policies have allowed the United States Economy to be directly and in-directly Funding the Communist China's Military Expansion and Cold War Against the West, including the Fentanyl Drug Crisis that kills tens of thousands each year.
American First Investment Policy Memorandum - Trump Administration - Feb 21, 2025
"The United States will also use all necessary legal instruments to further deter United States persons from investing in the PRC's military-industrial sector."
PRC is China's Communist Government the People's Republic of China
Bartiromo: We have been talking about this for ‘years,’ and now it’s happening:
Trump's American First Investment Policy
March 13, 2025 | 9 min | Fox Business
How Your Money Is Being Used to Fund China's Military at a Massive Scale
- Warns Roger W. Robinson, Jr. -
April 11, 2025 | 1 hour 20 min | American Thought Leaders
During the Reagan administration, Roger Robinson served as senior director of international economic affairs at the National Security Council, where he played a linchpin role in Reagan’s economic strategy against the Soviet Union. He’s the co-founder of the Prague Security Studies Institute and former Chairman of the Congressional U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission.
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CCP = Chinese Communist Party, Gov of Mainland China
FEATURED
"I think this is the most dangerous moment in History." - Gordon Chang
“This is an existential struggle…
and we better win it.”
April 17, 2025 | 30 min | American Thought Leaders
Opinion by Victor Davis Hanson (bio)
Trump's Strategy to Trump China on the World Stage
April 2, 2025 | 7 min | The Daily Signal
How Who Will Prevail in US-China Trade War?
- Christopher Balding Explains the Playing Field -
Senior Fellow at the Henry Jackson Society
April 10, 2025 | 1 hour 8 min | American Thought Leaders
Articles on: The Epoch Times, Bloomberg
- Larry Kudlow (bio) -
China Continues Their Same Old Ways
Intellectual Property Theft, Fentanyl
April 11, 2025 | 6 min | Fox Business
Inside China's Economic Espionage Warfare Against the West
Feb 2023 | 21 min | Sky News Australia