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This white paper provides a comprehensive analysis of modern warfare through five interconnected characteristics that have been prominently displayed throughout the Ukraine conflict:
- The rise of autonomous systems and their impact on force architecture
- The information domain as a critical battleground
- Electronic warfare and spectrum superiority
- The challenges of sustaining logistics in contested environments
- The evolution of air defense strategy
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Lessons from the Ukraine Conflict: Modern Warfare in the Age of Autonomy, Information, and Resilience
As warfare evolves, the Ukraine conflict offers policymakers a blueprint for modern defense strategy—emphasizing autonomy, contested logistics, electromagnetic superiority, and adaptive organizational models.

"The most reliable predictor of future conflict in a place is past conflict in that place. In large part, this is because of unresolved injustices. Resentments over past crimes simmer. Then, they boil over.
In other words, 'they got away with mass murder' is not a great way to build a lasting peace" -- @…

Justice vs Peace
As the world watches the shaky ceasefire in Gaza, the issues of peace and justice intermingle, strain, and collide. For those who work on conflicts, these are familiar tensions, but the underlying debates rarely get wider attention. The basic issue is this: to get any kind of peace deal in

I’ve seen students panic and ••delete their entire local clone•• of a project (discarding all of their unpushed work!!) because they were so sure they’re ruined everything when they encountered a tiny merge conflict.
Of course I try to counter this — warning them up front about what a merge conflict looks like, helping them overcome their fear of asking for help, doing hands-on exercises with intentionally creating merge conflicts — but the fact “OMG DELETE EVERYTHING” could •ever• be a newcomer’s response to a minor merge conflict is a blaring klaxon of design failure.
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college_freshmen: Dutch college freshman (1995)
A small network of friendships among freshmen at Dutch College in 1994-1995. Friendship ties were surveyed at 7 different times over the year, and each edge is timestamped. The direction of an edge indicates that person i named person j, and the edge weight represents their level of friendship, ranging from -1 (risk of conflict) to 3 (best friend).
This network has 32 nodes and 3062 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted, Tim…

Baby girl in Gaza dies from cold amid Israeli aid restrictions | Israel-Palestine conflict | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2026/1/20/baby-girl-in-gaza-dies-from-cold-amid-israeli-aid-restrictions?traffic_source=rss

Something that just drives me up the wall about this particular area of Git (merge conflicts) is that, beyond the all-too-typical Git problem of sloppy terminology, this is bad feature design. In most situations, “use ours” and “user theirs” are •both• the wrong answer! There are two doors, and they’re •both• trapdoors.
If you have a merge conflict, that means that you changed something •and• somebody else changed something, and your job is to •synthesize• both changes. To use one is to discard the other, which is usually not what you want!
The thing Git (and every Git GUI) ought to surface is a three-way merge: show me what I changed and what they changed ••relative to the nearest common ancestor••. Yes yes yes, I know it’s possible to finagle that into view with Git. It should be the danged default. It is what I should see first. It is what I should see if I have no idea what I’m doing.
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The Trump administration is preparing to upend a foundational safeguard of the Department of Justice,
by proposing a rule that would effectively bar DOJ attorneys from recusing themselves from cases due to conflicts of interest.
The rule, expected to be filed in the Federal Register as early as this week,
would grant Attorney General Pam Bondi final authority over all recusals.
Under the proposal, career prosecutors and political appointees alike would be required to…

There is another war Israel is waging – one that is not making headlines | Israel-Palestine conflict | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2026/1/20/there-is-another-war-israel-is-waging-one-that-is-not-making

"However, international justice can seem like a faith-based community. We believe in it, but proof of its existence is rare, and almost miraculous when it happens" -- @…
Let's all pray for a miracle, then.

Justice vs Peace
As the world watches the shaky ceasefire in Gaza, the issues of peace and justice intermingle, strain, and collide. For those who work on conflicts, these are familiar tensions, but the underlying debates rarely get wider attention. The basic issue is this: to get any kind of peace deal in

I spend a lot of my teaching life helping students learn to use Git, and I cannot emphasize enough how hostile the user experience of a merge conflict is for a new user. It looks like everything is broken. The terminology is crap. The verbiage is bamboozling. The default actions are all booby traps. The most important information is buried. The UI is terrible (both CLI and most GUIs). It’s incredibly easy to accidentally commit the conflict markers. It’s a nightmare.
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