Ark Midnight 506 – The Intelligence Briefing / Edge of War

The world is moving through a period of overlapping conflict, military pressure and strategic uncertainty. Tonight on Ark Midnight, John B. Wells brings together military and national-security voices to examine the forces shaping the global battlefield — from Iran and the Strait of Hormuz to Russia and Ukraine, China and Taiwan, Arctic security, cyber warfare and the vulnerabilities inside critical infrastructure.

The Intelligence Briefing looks beyond individual headlines to the larger strategic picture: what the United States is trying to protect, how competing theaters are stretching resources and attention, where escalation could come from, and how military planners assess risk when several crises are moving at once.

Tonight, we follow the map, examine the strategy, test the information and look at the systems that could determine what happens next — at the Edge of War.

Ark Midnight 505 – The Intelligence Briefing / Wargames

Tonight, we honor America’s prisoners of war and those still missing in action with John Malloy.

Mary Fanning and Lt. Gen. Thomas McInerney examine America’s race for artificial-intelligence superiority and the consequences of surrendering that advantage to China.

Edward Haugland exposes the cognitive war already being waged inside the United States, while Indy Pederson takes us inside the darker possibilities of superintelligence, nuclear command and machines capable of manipulating the human beings who hold launch authority.

The battlefield is the mind, the weapon is information, and the war game has already begun.