Defense

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — The United States has lifted a four-year arms embargo on Cambodia after announcing a resumption of the annual Angkor Sentinel military exercises in a sign that relations between Washington and China’s tiny but key regional ally are on the mend. Details of the resumptions were finalized by the Indonesia-based U.S. Mission to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations on…

Current and former military officers are warning that adversaries are likely to exploit a natural flaw in artificial intelligence chatbots to inject instructions for stealing files, distorting public opinion or otherwise betraying trusted users. The vulnerability to such “prompt injection attacks” exists because large language models, the backbone of chatbots that digest hordes of user text…

BERLIN — The first of eight P-8A Poseidon submarine-hunting aircraft ordered for the German Navy arrived in Berlin last week. The aircraft will serve to ensure no Russian submarines are able to enter the open Atlantic undetected, German officials said. Although based at the northern German air base Nordholz, the fleet of Poseidon aircraft that Germany ordered in 2021 will be spending a lot of…

MILAN — The “Typhoon” unit is a special forces unit within Ukraine’s National Guard that focuses exclusively on unmanned systems and all aspects related to the technology. Established in 2024, it initially specialized in frontline first-person-view operations but has since expanded its capabilities to other types of unmanned aerial systems. Its primary tasks include developing and…