Andrew Strickland - Editor In Chief

While we didnt post much new content over the summer,we have been busy. Our Software Team has been working on our first AI based app. See the demonstration under the newly active AI TAB. This is a real AI neural net program that shows a simple military use of AI. This app demonstrates supervised image classification using a browser-based, fully connected feed-forward neural network trained with backpropagation.You will train the network,then execute the mission. This is an example of perceptive AI. Have fun ....

Later we will create another AI app that demonstrates generative AI. This app will be more complex and more real world. We will also show how AI participated in the whole development cycle from concept,thru requirements,to coding,to validation. Bascially,how AI was used to generate AI. Facinating ...

Also, we have completed our series on counter insurgency. The first article is now available under the NATO tab. More to follow.

At a personal level I am now returning to D.C. for my second semester masters program at John Hopkins University. I love Global Security and Strategic Studies and I am really looking forward to the new curricula.

To recap 2024, Spring semester was quite quite busy and I spent spring break as a Focus Catholic Missionary in Lima Peru. We helped build stairs and retaining walls in the poor areas. It was a powerful experience. I also finished my summer 2024 University classes in Orvieto, Italy. Italy was awesome. Orvieto is a very ancient (as in Etruscan) and beautiful hill top town in Umbria. The wines and food of Umbria are great ! After classes finished, I stayed with my family that lives in the Val Baganza in Northern Italy. What great time!

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