The FBI’s first Antifa-related terrorism indictments test the limits of Trump’s unprecedented domestic terror designation, revealing a deep clash between security imperatives, constitutional law, and the politicization of counterterrorism.

As open-source intelligence becomes indispensable to modern espionage, warfare, and accountability, Washington’s internal struggle over its institutionalization will determine whether the U.S. intelligence community leads or lags in the information age.

JNIM’s fuel blockade and newly imposed Sharia-style road laws mark the transformation of al-Qaeda’s Malian affiliate from insurgent force to parallel government, deepening Mali’s economic collapse and exposing the junta’s failure to govern.

The U.S. Army’s SkyFoundry and acquisition reforms mark a decisive shift toward rapid, industrial-scale drone warfare—restoring tactical parity with global adversaries will depend on whether mass production is matched by integrated counter-UAS and resilient command networks.

Axis of Resistance media are exploiting the Gaza ceasefire to project Israel’s defeat, glorify “resistance” movements, and frame U.S. diplomacy as deceit—revealing an increasingly synchronized propaganda strategy aimed at sustaining ideological warfare despite battlefield exhaustion.

Trump’s escalation of the U.S.–China trade war amid Beijing’s rare earth restrictions marks a strategic rupture that intertwines economic decoupling with growing military cooperation between China and Russia, heightening the risk of a future conflict over Taiwan.