China appears to be building 100 more missile silos.
HASC Chairman questions private funding of National Guard deployment to Texas. Military Times says it’s legal.
IISS assesses various national cyber capabilities.
Pew study of 2020 presidential election shows different strengths of Trump and Biden.
Donald Rumsfeld died yesterday. I’ll send an assessment separately.
FYI, I have a lot of Grandparent Duty this month, so postings will be infrequent.
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