Liberty
Iranian drone plot in England labeled ‘alarming’
Editors at National Review Online assess the recent Iranian scheme to wreak havoc with drones. The U.S. rushed to evacuate its fleet of B-1 bombers from England’s Royal Air Force…
Unmanned aerial vehicle
aircraft intended for use without onboard human crew members
Liberty
Designing robots to ‘die so we don’t’
Luther Ray Abel writes for National Review Online about an interesting development in defense technology. Anduril Industries, arguably the Apple of this new generation of venture-capital-funded defense tech firms, just…
Liberty
Labeling some developments in the Iran war ‘extraordinary’
Jim Geraghty writes for National Review Online about major events in the military campaign against Iran. One: Sunday night, Iran fired “nearly 30 ballistic missiles” at Israel. Now, in the…
Liberty
Learning valuable lessons from the Iran war
Mackenzie Eaglen writes about lessons American leaders should learn from the recent conflict with Iran. In the rubble of key infrastructure losses to the U.S. military in the Middle East…
Research Brief
Energy
Offshore wind: known and speculative national security risks
Citing national security risks, the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) announced on Dec. 22, 2025, that it was pausing the leases “for all large-scale offshore wind projects under construction in the…
Liberty
Drone Sightings Labeled ‘Out of Control’ Problem
Tom Rogan writes for the Washington Examiner about the recent controversy surrounding unexplained drone sightings. The government seems either unwilling or incapable of resolving rapidly growing public concern over the…
Regulation
NC licensing board threatens drone photographer for illegal “land surveying”
This kind of nonsense probably wouldn't happen so much if North Carolina learned from the state's stinging U.S. Supreme Court loss in North Carolina Board of Dental Examiners v. Federal…
Liberty
Warning about intrusive Chinese drones
Rebecca Heinrichs writes at National Review Online about the dangers of Chinese drone technology. The U.S. government at the federal, state, and local levels is using Chinese drones that the…
Health Care
Medical drones at WakeMed
We talk about telemedicine as a way that patients and doctors can access each other at a distance for treatment. But, what about connecting medical facilities with drones? That’s the…
Transportation
At South by Southwest, Raleigh Mayor Predicts the Future
Raleigh Mayor Nancy McFarlane has been at the South by Southwest event. She and other mayors were asked to think about the future, as Governing reports. Not all the predictions…
Liberty
Man-bites-dog alert: National Review Online praises Obama
Arthur Herman writes at National Review Online about one of the rare instances in which President Obama’s defense policy deserves kudos. It’s not often that President Obama does something right,…
Liberty
Using Eagles to Hunt Drones
Police the world over are trying to figure out how to deal with wayward drones. Nets and even laser “death rays” are being developed. But in Holland the police are working…