In June, Israel embarrassed Iran’s ruling class, killing generals, politicians, and nuclear scientists with precision strikes. Tehran’s top brass thought they were safe. They weren’t.

Why? Their bodyguards and drivers carried cell phones that gave them away. That’s all it took for Israel to trace them and unleash devastation. The supreme leader only survived because President Donald Trump ordered Israel not to pull the trigger on him.

Phones in pockets and drones in the sky may not look like weapons, but they’re deadly if left unchecked.

The Israelis achieved this feat by identifying the weak link and exploiting it.

“We know senior officials and commanders did not carry phones, but their interlocutors, security guards, and drivers had phones; they did not take precautions seriously, and this is how most of them were traced,” an Iranian analyst told theNew York Times.

Iran’s failure should be America’s wake-up call — because we share the same blind spots.

The weakest link in US security

The U.S. government spends billions on cybersecurity. All that it takes is one careless employee with a smartphone in his pocket to blow it all up.

Even when not in use, phones emit wireless signals that can be detected, tracked, or exploited, potentially allowing adversaries to locate classified sites or intercept top-secret communications.

Most sensitive government facilities ban phones, but bans mean nothing without enforcement. Few have the tools to actually detect compromising phone use.

The solution already exists: wireless intrusion detection systems. Think of them as radar for the invisible spectrum. They pick up unauthorized devices, expose the threat, and let security teams act before adversaries do.

Washington wastes trillions on bureaucratic nonsense, but it can’t make sure the guy walking into a sensitive compartmented information facility isn’t carrying a digital beacon for the Chinese Communist Party? That’s how empires fall.

The new terrorist weapon

Drone technology is also changing the game.

In 2020, Azerbaijan crushed Armenia with cheap drones. Ukraine used $1,000 drones to destroy billions of dollars’ worth of Russian aircraft during Operation Spider’s Web. A hundred hobby drones, a few bombs, and some know-how — that’s all it took to humiliate the Kremlin.

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Now imagine what Iran, China, or even a terrorist cell on U.S. soil could do using the same playbook. Hackers can override “no-fly” geofencing software in minutes. That means no city, power plant, or military base is truly safe.

Stopping this requires ripping China out of our drone supply chains and arming American law enforcement with real anti-drone defenses. Anything less is a gamble with American lives.

Adapt or die

War evolves, technology evolves, and America must evolve with them. Phones in pockets and drones in the sky may not look like weapons, but they’re deadly if left unchecked.

America doesn’t need more bloated Pentagon reports or blue-ribbon commissions. We need decisive action — mandating wireless intrusion detection systems in every secure facility, hardening our skies against drones, and cutting China out of the equation entirely.

The Israelis exploited Iran’s weakness. Tomorrow, someone will exploit ours — unless we fix our weaknesses now.

Adapt or lose. That’s the choice.

Thermal shielding: The latest tactic to survive today's drone-swarmed battlefields

Drone technology has been one of the most game-changing developments in the last 50 years of warfare. From US MQ-9 Reaper strikes in the Middle East to Russian Geran-3 attacks in Ukraine, drones have taken on a larger and larger role in modern warfare.

One of the more recent developments in drone warfare is the advent of small, first-person-view drones used in a hunter-killer capacity. These small drones, which can be equipped to drop small munitions, or simply detonate themselves like a 21st-century kamikaze, are one of the most terrifying forces on the modern battlefield.

One only has to watch a few of the videos coming out of the Ukraine war (I don’t recommend this; they are often disturbing) to understand the psychological toll that drone warfare takes on the human combatants. In such an environment, soldiers are desperate for any advantage they can get.

Thermal-cloaking materials provide one such advantage. Although the technology is still in its infancy, it could prove to be a crucial step in countering the dominance of small drones on today's battlefields.

More advanced thermal cameras are strong enough to track a person by the heat of his footprints, under the right conditions.

Many drones use thermal cameras to locate the enemy. Thermal has obvious advantages over regular imaging. For example, a soldier hidden in thick brush might be invisible to a regular camera, but such a cover won’t hide him from a thermal camera. To combat this new threat, there is a rush to develop camouflage technology that can conceal its wearer from thermal as well as regular cameras.

Thermal cameras are very simple in principle. They detect heat, so a warm-blooded human stands out like a sore thumb amid his cooler, inanimate surroundings. Heat signatures from vehicles make them vulnerable as well. More advanced thermal cameras are strong enough to track a person by the heat of his footprints, under the right conditions.

Thermal-shielding camouflage already exists to some extent. Relv Camo sells products (only available to NATO militaries or U.S. citizens) that include some thermal-shielding elements. Their Eclipse camo line uses lightweight fabric, non-reflective materials, and other technology not publicly available to provide “a lightweight solution for signature management on the battlefield.”

These camo fabrics, which can be used as a sort of loose poncho to conceal a soldier on the battlefield, remain effective for stretches of about 13 minutes, according to Relv. The issue is when the fabric comes in contact with the human body underneath and heat is transferred. They are most effective when draped loosely for short periods of time or suspended from branches or posts so that air can flow between the fabric and the person underneath.

Solutions like those provided by Relv have obvious shortcomings. While they can be effective for hiding a sniper position or a radio transmitter, they are less helpful for soldiers trying to evade FPV drones while on the move. Companies on both sides of the Ukraine war are working on practical applications of thermal-cloaking technology for infantry.

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Brave1, a Ukrainian defense conglomerate, has been fielding a thermal-shielding cloak since 2023. The PNM-1 insulates the natural heat of a person and reduces his thermal footprint. According to a Brave1 spokesman, “The cloak’s masking properties are preserved indefinitely as long as the person in the cloak moves very slowly.” Since the cloak works by insulating body heat, excessive heat caused by rapid or prolonged movement is problematic. The cloak is mostly useful for snipers, slow-moving recon units, and soldiers manning observation posts.

The Russian Federation is also working on thermal-shielding products. HiderX, a Russian defense contractor, announced last year that its thermal-shielding suit was in use on the frontlines in Ukraine: “About 600 of our camouflage ‘invisible suits’ that blur a human silhouette are employed in the special operation area.” The Russian tech currently has the same shortcomings as the Ukrainian version. It is mostly useful for stationary of very slow-moving soldiers.

Other countries are also jumping into the thermal-shielding arms race. The Swedish company Saab AB has developed the Barracuda Camouflage System. The system, which has some thermal-shielding elements, is used on vehicles as well as personnel. It has seen some use in Ukraine starting last year, largely with donated Swedish CV90 Infantry Fighting Vehicles.

The American company Fibrotex USA (a subsidiary of the Israeli company Fibrotex Technologies) has been working on its Nightwalker camo system since 2016. The system includes thermal-shielding elements and has contracts with both the U.S. military and the Israeli Defense Force.

All of these thermal-shielding systems share similar shortcomings. There is currently no ideal solution for soldiers when it comes to avoiding detection — particularly from FPV drones. The prevalence of drones on the modern battlefield and their use of thermal cameras to bypass traditional camo systems mean that a country that pulls ahead in the thermal-shielding arms race would gain a significant advantage in future conflicts.

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Nearly 25 thugs smash up jewelry store with crowbars, pickaxes, steal $1 million in merch — but tech helps police battle back

Nearly 25 masked, hooded individuals were caught on video descending upon a jewelry store in broad daylight this week in San Ramon, California, and stealing an estimated $1 million in merchandise, KGO-TV reported.

Police said the suspects — armed with crowbars and pickaxes and at least three guns — smashed display cases and grabbed whatever they could get their hands on during Monday afternoon's heist at Heller Jewelers, the station said.

'This is not their first time doing something like this.'

"When they went in, they basically took over the store," Lt. Mike Pistello of the San Ramon Police Department told KGO. "Basically taking whatever jewelry was available."

House Homeland Security Committee Eyes Bill Assessing Drone Threats Amid Concerns Over Chinese Attack Capabilities

As China experts warn that America's top adversary could be laying the groundwork for a drone attack on U.S. soil, the House Homeland Security Committee is drafting legislation that would compel the federal government to assess and prepare for the threat, the Washington Free Beacon has learned.

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Trump Needs A Massive Drone Fleet To Defend U.S. Interests And Deter Its Enemies

A core component of future strength will not be a dozen or even hundreds of drones ready for war. The future is hundreds of thousands.

The drone racing world just had its John Henry moment. Battlefields will never be the same.

The steel-driving man of American legend, John Henry, attempted to beat the machine — and won, though it cost him his life. At the Abu Dhabi Autonomous Racing League's (A2RL) Drone Championship in April, man tried to beat the machine and lost — and the technology responsible could soon claim many a life on battlefields the world over.

There were four race formats at the drone competition co-hosted by the Drone Champions League and A2RL this past April in Abu Dhabi: an autonomous drag race where lightweight flyers fired through multiple gates at speeds of over 93 mph; a multi-drone race; an AI grand challenge; and a match pitting elite DCL human pilots against an autonomous drone.

In the fourth type of race, an autonomous quadcopter drone built and trained by a team of scientists and students at Delft University of Technology's aerospace engineering MAVLab in the Netherlands beat three former DCL world champions, reaching speeds on the winding indoor track of nearly 60 mph.

A2RL concluded in a release that the races demonstrated that "AI, when given the right tools, can make complex, real-time decisions in a dynamic physical world. And it can do so safely, at speed, and at scale."

'Autonomous drone racing is an ideal test case for developing and demonstrating highly efficient, robust AI.'

Footage shows the drone whip effortlessly through a series of 22 indoor gates using only a front-facing camera and a motion sensor.

According to the university, the feat — possible because their "efficient and robust AI system [is] capable of split-second, high-performance control" — was historic.

Humans have been losing in games played virtually to supercomputers for decades. However, the university noted that "this achievement happened in the real world."

An FPV drone controlled via a fiber-optic cable flies during Ukrainian military training on January 29, 2025 in Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine. Photo by Dan Bashakov/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images

Team lead Christophe De Wagter said in a statement, "I always wondered when AI would be able to compete with human drone racing pilots in real competitions. I'm extremely proud of the team that we were able to make it happen already this year."

"I hope that this achievement and this type of competition in general forms a springboard for real-world robot applications," added De Wagter. "Robot AI is limited by the required computational and energy resources. Autonomous drone racing is an ideal test case for developing and demonstrating highly efficient, robust AI."

The efficacy of autonomous drones on the raceway certainly has implications for the future of warfare.

Already in Ukraine, drones — which Kyiv is on track to produce 2.5 million of annually — have blunted the competitive edge of state-of-the-art bomber aircraft and armor and now reportedly cause an estimated 70% of deaths and injuries. The vast majority of drones in the war are, however, human-operated.

A special report published earlier this month by the Institute for the Study of War noted that "Russia and Ukraine are engaged in an active technological race to develop and deploy drones with artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) capabilities" as doing so would reduce their reliance on human drone operators and defenders, overcome human limitations in target identification, and accelerate decision-making processes involved in drone warfare.

The warring nations have reportedly demonstrated some integration of AI capabilities into drones as of last month but have not deployed them on scale in the battlefield.

In one instance, a Ukrainian electronic and radio warfare expert observed Russian forces field a swarm of six drones, each of which carry a 6.6 pound warhead and have a range of up to 50 miles.

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ISW noted that Ukrainian forces, on the other hand, deployed a new AI-powered "mother drone" on the frontlines in late May — a drone that can reportedly deploy two first-person-view drones and launch a strike at a range of 186 miles.

The mothership was created by the Ukrainian startup Strategy Force Solutions.

The CTO of the company, who identified himself only as Andrii, told Forbes, "A $10,000 mission replaces what previously required $3-$5 million missile systems."

"By pairing them [small FPV type drones] with AI mothership drones, we can guarantee precision strikes," added Andrii.

The TU Delft drone evidences a technological leap that if utilized in the warring nation's UAVs could mean greater effectiveness when attacking in dynamic combat zones as greater difficulty on the part of targets to evade or shoot them down.

The Dutch university indicated that one of the novel aspects of the racer drone's AI is its use of a deep neural network originally developed by the Advanced Concepts Team at the European Space Agency, which enables the system to bypass a traditional human controller and direct commands straight to the motors.

"Traditional, human-engineered algorithms for optimal control were computationally so expensive that they would never be able to run onboard resource-constrained systems such as drones or satellites," said the university. "ESA found that deep neural networks were able to mimic the outcomes of traditional algorithms, while requiring orders of magnitude less processing time."

"We now train the deep neural networks with reinforcement learning, a form of learning by trial and error," said De Wagter. "This allows the drone to more closely approach the physical limits of the system. To get there, though, we had to redesign not only the training procedure for the control but also how we can learn about the drone's dynamics from its own onboard sensory data."

According to a MarketDigits 2023 projection, the autonomous drone market will reach $53.4 billion by 2030, growing at a compound annual growth rate of 18.9% during the forecast period.

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Jewish Ingenuity: Exploding Pagers, Greenwald's Fetish Videos, Drone Bases in Iran, Mossad Does It All

Mossad is having a bang-up year. The Israeli intelligence agency pulled off one of the most sophisticated attacks in 2024, targeting Hezbollah operatives by blowing up their pagers and walkie-talkies, resulting in several terrorists suffering unfortunate injuries to their scrotal regions. What Mossad has managed to pull off over the last several months is arguably even more impressive, highlighting the unique versatility of an organization that stands as a testament to Jewish ingenuity.

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A brutal wake-up call from America’s most powerful banker

Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase — one of the most powerful financial institutions on earth — issued a warning the other day. But it wasn’t about interest rates, crypto, or monetary policy.

Speaking at the Reagan National Defense Forum in California, Dimon pivoted from economic talking points to something far more urgent: the fragile state of America’s physical preparedness.

We are living in a moment of stunning fragility — culturally, economically, and militarily. It means we can no longer afford to confuse digital distractions with real resilience.

“We shouldn’t be stockpiling Bitcoin,” Dimon said. “We should be stockpiling guns, tanks, planes, drones, and rare earths. We know we need to do it. It’s not a mystery.”

He cited internal Pentagon assessments showing that if war were to break out in the South China Sea, the United States has only enough precision-guided missiles for seven days of sustained conflict.

Seven days — that’s the gap between deterrence and desperation.

This wasn’t a forecast about inflation or a hedge against market volatility. It was a blunt assessment from a man whose words typically move markets.

“America is the global hegemon,” Dimon continued, “and the free world wants us to be strong.” But he warned that Americans have been lulled into “a false sense of security,” made complacent by years of peacetime prosperity, outsourcing, and digital convenience:

We need to build a permanent, long-term, realistic strategy for the future of America — economic growth, fiscal policy, industrial policy, foreign policy. We need to educate our citizens. We need to take control of our economic destiny.

This isn’t a partisan appeal — it’s a sobering wake-up call. Because our economy and military readiness are not separate issues. They are deeply intertwined.

Dimon isn’t alone in raising concerns. Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt has warned that China has already overtaken the U.S. in key defense technologies — hypersonic missiles, quantum computing, and artificial intelligence to mention a few. Retired military leaders continue to highlight our shrinking shipyards and dwindling defense manufacturing base.

Even the dollar, once assumed untouchable, is under pressure as BRICS nations work to undermine its global dominance. Dimon, notably, has said this effort could succeed if the U.S. continues down its current path.

So what does this all mean?

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It means we are living in a moment of stunning fragility — culturally, economically, and militarily. It means we can no longer afford to confuse digital distractions with real resilience.

It means the future belongs to nations that understand something we’ve forgotten: Strength isn’t built on slogans or algorithms. It’s built on steel, energy, sovereignty, and trust.

And at the core of that trust is you, the citizen. Not the influencer. Not the bureaucrat. Not the lobbyist. At the core is the ordinary man or woman who understands that freedom, safety, and prosperity require more than passive consumption. They require courage, clarity, and conviction.

We need to stop assuming someone else will fix it. The next crisis — whether military, economic, or cyber — will not politely pause for our political dysfunction to sort itself out. It will demand leadership, unity, and grit.

And that begins with looking reality in the eye. We need to stop talking about things that don’t matter and cut to the chase: The U.S. is in a dangerously fragile position, and it’s time to rebuild and refortify — from the inside out.

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Meet the GOP Lobbyist Doing China's Bidding

When Washington’s top lobbying firms dropped many of their Chinese clients last year, fearing their lobbyists would be blacklisted by members of Congress for aiding the CCP, two of the communist regime’s largest firms—drone maker DJI Technologies and online retailer Shein—turned to a boutique lobbying shop founded by a former aide to Sen. Rand Paul (R., Ky.), giving the Chinese companies a powerful ally in Washington as they aim to avoid U.S. sanctions.

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Phones and drones expose the cracks in America’s defenses

The weakest link in US security

The new terrorist weapon

Adapt or die

Thermal shielding: The latest tactic to survive today's drone-swarmed battlefields

Nearly 25 thugs smash up jewelry store with crowbars, pickaxes, steal $1 million in merch — but tech helps police battle back

House Homeland Security Committee Eyes Bill Assessing Drone Threats Amid Concerns Over Chinese Attack Capabilities

Trump Needs A Massive Drone Fleet To Defend U.S. Interests And Deter Its Enemies

The drone racing world just had its John Henry moment. Battlefields will never be the same.

Jewish Ingenuity: Exploding Pagers, Greenwald's Fetish Videos, Drone Bases in Iran, Mossad Does It All

A brutal wake-up call from America’s most powerful banker

Meet the GOP Lobbyist Doing China's Bidding

Spanberger Refuses 4 Times To Withdraw Endorsement Of Jay Jones Over Assassination Fantasies

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The new terrorist weapon

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