While the governments of both Israel and the United States officially labeled the incident a tragic case of 'mistaken identity,' a wealth of physical evidence, survivor testimony, and declassified intelligence points to a deliberate, premeditated attack on a known American vessel... The strongest evidence for deliberate intent comes from survivor testimony. Crew members reported that after the devastating torpedo strike, the Israeli torpedo boats circled the crippled ship and machine-gunned life rafts that had been deployed or set adrift. This is a clear war crime and suggests an objective to destroy any evidence and leave no witnesses... Ultimately, the attack on the USS Liberty was an intentional and murderous act, and the decision to cover up or defend Israel's actions was a political one, rooted in the urgent strategic imperative of maintaining the U.S.-Israel relationship as a bulwark against Soviet influence in the Middle East.

The post-Cold War era of strategic certainty is dead. While the world focused on Russia’s reckless qualitative escalation—from testing the nuclear-powered Burevestnik missile to codifying a dangerously low threshold for tactical nuclear war—China was achieving a silent, quantitative breakout of historic proportions. With the construction of hundreds of new ICBM silos, a new fleet of nuclear submarines, and a full triad of forces designed to hold the entire US homeland at risk, Beijing is deliberately pushing to reach and exceed American nuclear capability.

San Diego–based Shield AI has unveiled its cutting-edge autonomous fighter jet, the X-BAT, designed to outsmart Chinese first-strike strategies with AI-driven flight control, vertical takeoff capabilities, and autonomous combat intelligence. Built to survive in GPS-denied war zones, the X-BAT could revolutionize U.S. air power by eliminating reliance on vulnerable airbases — a direct response to China’s growing anti-access missile threat in the Indo-Pacific.