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America’s next war could reach US soil, top Army general warns
The American military has largely operated on a familiar premise: combat the enemy overseas before the fight reaches home.
But as drones, cyberattacks and long-range weapons pose growing threats to U.S. military installations and critical infrastructure, Army leaders are preparing for a future in which American forces could come under attack before they ever deploy overseas.
«If we’re going against a pacing threat, power projection will be contested,» Gen. Christopher LaNeve, the Army’s acting chief of staff, told Digital on Wednesday.
He said the military is rethinking assumptions that were held during decades of fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, when American forces could largely count on secure bases and supply lines at home.
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«During the Global War on Terror, we took a lot of things for granted, because we could,» LaNeve said during a small-group roundtable at the Association of the United States Army’s annual conference in Washington this week.
In a potential conflict with China, disrupting American military bases, transportation networks and communications could delay U.S. forces from reaching the battlefield. The Pentagon’s latest report on China’s military capabilities warns that Beijing has positioned cyber capabilities inside U.S. critical infrastructure networks that could be used to disrupt American military mobilization during a conflict.
The concerns come as the Pentagon places renewed emphasis on homeland defense and military installations as they prepare to potentially confront threats closer to home. U.S. officials have previously confirmed drone incursions over installations — including Joint Base Langley-Eustis in Virginia and Picatinny Arsenal in New Jersey. Though those incidents have not been publicly attributed to China.
The warning of a future fight on American soil comes amid the How the Army Fights rollout. The new operational framework places greater emphasis on preparing American forces to deploy, communicate and sustain operations even when military bases, supply lines and communications networks are under attack.
The guidance places greater emphasis on the Army’s ability to deploy and sustain forces under threat, including when communications, supply lines and military infrastructure are disrupted.
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LaNeve said the Army is using the framework to establish clearer priorities for how its formations train, fight and incorporate new technology.
«It was important to get this document out to provide a direction for our Army, a stake in the ground in where we’re moving,» LaNeve told Digital in an interview Wednesday.
The changes are being led by an Army leadership team serving in acting capacities following the departures of former Army Secretary Dan Driscoll and Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George. LaNeve remains the Senate-confirmed vice chief of staff.
LaNeve explained how the Army is preparing to keep fighting even when an adversary disrupts military communications.
«I think what you would see inside this command and control capability is the ability to operate disconnected and then reconnect when you have that capability, but to continue to be able to maneuver,» he said.
The Army is also rethinking how it protects military installations at home. LaNeve pointed to Joint Interagency Task Force 401, which is working with federal and local law enforcement to strengthen counter-drone defenses around military bases and critical infrastructure.
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Acting Army Secretary Adam Telle pointed to the southern border as an example of how soldiers are already confronting drone threats closer to home. He said soldiers are using the mission to test new counter-drone technology against real-world threats, gaining experience they can bring back to their units as the Army prepares for future conflicts.
The Army is also expanding its preparations for biological threats that could disrupt military operations. Officials announced this week that biological incidents will be incorporated into routine combat training as part of a broader effort to ensure soldiers can continue carrying out their missions through disease outbreaks or deliberate biological attacks.
During a separate panel Wednesday, Air Force Secretary Troy Meink warned that advances in surveillance technology could soon make it increasingly difficult for military forces to operate anywhere without being detected.
«We are rapidly heading to a point in time where, depending on what your signature is, how fast you’re moving, the enemy is going to have some sense to where you are no matter where you are on the planet,» Meink said.
He suggested that level of surveillance could emerge within five years, potentially sooner, as China and other adversaries expand their ability to track and target military assets.
Meink said the Pentagon is working to make its forces more survivable, including through autonomous systems capable of operating in dangerous environments where commanders might hesitate to send manned platforms.
War Secretary Pete Hegseth, speaking alongside Meink and the other service secretaries, criticized what he described as the Pentagon’s failure to keep pace with technological advances under the Biden administration.
«On hypersonics, they took a nap. On space, they took a nap. On weaponization of space, they took a nap. On drones, they took a nap,» Hegseth said.
LaNeve emphasized that despite the Army’s growing reliance on advanced technology, soldiers must still be able to carry out their missions when those systems are unavailable.
«Soldiers are our number one platform. It is the Army’s platform,» he told Digital.
The technology, he said, is intended to make troops more capable, but soldiers must remain grounded in the fundamental skills needed to fight without it.
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La Tierra sumó por unos meses un acompañante diminuto. El asteroide 2026 QQ8 quedó atrapado de forma temporal por la gravedad terrestre y trazará una vuelta y media en las cercanías del planeta antes de alejarse en 2027.
El fenómeno no altera la dinámica de la Luna ni representa una amenaza, pero aporta una oportunidad para observar cómo actúa la gravedad en la región donde compiten la influencia de la Tierra y la del Sol.
El Centro de Planetas Menores de la Unión Astronómica Internacional informó el hallazgo a fines de octubre. El astrónomo húngaro Krisztián Sárneczky, conocido por sus descubrimientos de asteroides, detectó por primera vez la roca espacial el 20 de agosto. Para ese momento, QQ8 ya se encontraba en una trayectoria ligada a nuestro planeta desde finales de abril.
La denominación de miniluna describe un satélite natural temporal. No se trata de una segunda Luna estable ni de un cuerpo destinado a permanecer en el sistema Tierra-Luna durante miles de años. Es un objeto pequeño que, por su velocidad y por la geometría de su aproximación, entra durante un período limitado en la zona donde la atracción terrestre logra modificar su recorrido alrededor del Sol.
Los cálculos indican que 2026 QQ8 completa una órbita solar cada 359 días, un lapso equivalente a 0,98 años terrestres. Esa cadencia lo conduce cerca de la Tierra aproximadamente una vez por década. En 2026, la aproximación presentó las condiciones necesarias para que el planeta lo retuviera por unos meses.
En 1965 pasó también cerca de la Tierra, aunque sin ingresar en una trayectoria de captura. Otra aproximación está prevista para 2058, sin perspectivas de una nueva miniluna.
QQ8 pasará a 568.000 kilómetros y no supone riesgo de impacto
La distancia mínima estimada entre el objeto y la Tierra será de 568.000 kilómetros, unas 1,5 veces la separación media entre nuestro planeta y la Luna. Esa cifra equivale a cerca de 177.000 kilómetros más que la distancia lunar promedio. Por eso, el término miniluna puede inducir a error si se interpreta como cercanía: QQ8 permanece mucho más lejos que nuestro satélite natural permanente.
Las estimaciones sobre su diámetro oscilan entre uno y dos metros. Incluso la cifra mayor lo sitúa entre los objetos espaciales más pequeños que logran una captura temporal reconocible. Si una roca de ese tamaño siguiera una ruta de colisión, la atmósfera terrestre la destruiría antes de que alcanzara la superficie. El episodio produciría, como mucho, un fenómeno luminoso en el cielo, sin consecuencias para la población.
La confirmación de su naturaleza resultó central en las observaciones posteriores al anuncio. Al principio surgió la duda de si QQ8 podía ser un fragmento de basura espacial, como una pieza desprendida de un cohete o de un satélite. Equipos astronómicos realizaron nuevas mediciones con el telescopio de 2,2 metros de la Universidad de Hawái y con el Telescopio Discovery de Lowell. Esos datos permitieron descartar un origen artificial.
El Centro de Planetas Menores concluyó que se trata de un cuerpo natural, probablemente un asteroide pequeño. La distinción tiene importancia científica: los restos tecnológicos pueden seguir trayectorias cercanas a la Tierra, pero no aportan la misma información sobre la población de rocas que circula por el vecindario planetario. QQ8 pertenece a esa segunda categoría y ayuda a estudiar cuerpos que suelen escapar a los registros por su tamaño reducido.
Su ruta tampoco forma un círculo regular alrededor de la Tierra. La esfera de Hill explica mejor el proceso. Esa región marca, de forma aproximada, el espacio en el que la gravedad terrestre puede imponerse sobre la del Sol para retener temporalmente un objeto. Fuera de ese límite, la fuerza solar determina el movimiento. QQ8 cruzó esa frontera gravitatoria en abril, por lo que quedó sujeto a una órbita transitoria y compleja.
El desenlace está previsto para diciembre. En ese punto, las perturbaciones gravitatorias devolverán al asteroide a una trayectoria dominada por el Sol. Algunas proyecciones sitúan su salida definitiva cerca de enero de 2027, una diferencia que depende de cómo se defina el inicio y el final exactos de la captura. En cualquier caso, el paso de QQ8 por las cercanías terrestres durará alrededor de nueve meses.
La Tierra recibe satélites temporales con más frecuencia de la que parece
La presencia de una miniluna no constituye un hecho excepcional, aunque cada caso ofrece condiciones distintas. Entre los antecedentes recientes figuran 2020 SO, 2020 CD3 y 2024 PT5. También aparece 2025 PN7, catalogado como cuasiluna. La diferencia importa: una cuasiluna comparte una órbita solar parecida a la terrestre y, vista desde nuestro planeta, parece acompañarlo; sin embargo, no queda capturada por la gravedad de la Tierra como un satélite temporal.
Un estudio publicado el año pasado planteó que la Tierra podría contar con hasta seis minilunas a la vez. Muchas pasarían inadvertidas porque miden apenas decenas de centímetros y permanecen poco tiempo cerca del planeta. Un modelo elaborado este año estimó un diámetro medio de 75 centímetros para esos satélites fugaces. El mismo trabajo calculó una permanencia media cercana a nueve meses, un valor compatible con el período previsto para 2026 QQ8.
Esa comparación también ubica a QQ8 por encima del tamaño medio propuesto para las minilunas. Las simulaciones indican que una roca espacial de unos tres metros de ancho podría mantenerse bajo control gravitatorio terrestre entre 10 y 20 años. No obstante, esos escenarios dependen de múltiples variables: la velocidad de llegada, el ángulo de aproximación, la influencia solar y el efecto gravitatorio de la Luna.
Algunas de estas rocas quizá proceden del propio satélite natural de la Tierra. Grandes impactos sobre la superficie lunar pueden expulsar material al espacio y enviar fragmentos hacia órbitas que cruzan el entorno terrestre. Kamo’oalewa, descubierto en 2016 y clasificado como cuasisatélite, figura entre los candidatos a ese origen. Tiene unos 40 metros de diámetro, mucho más que QQ8, y mantiene una relación orbital distinta con la Tierra.
“Su espectro se asemeja mucho al de las muestras lunares erosionadas por el espacio, lo que sugiere un origen lunar de Kamo’oalewa”, escribieron los autores de un estudio sobre ese objeto. La afirmación vincula la composición de Kamo’oalewa con material expuesto durante largo tiempo al entorno espacial en la Luna. Ese posible parentesco amplía el interés por los cuerpos pequeños que transitan cerca de la Tierra.
Los investigadores sostuvieron además que un origen lunar para Kamo’oalewa señalaría que los impactos dispersan fragmentos considerables por el sistema Tierra-Luna. Esa información resulta relevante para reconstruir la procedencia de los objetos próximos a la Tierra, entender la formación de satélites de planetas rocosos y evaluar riesgos potenciales. Los objetos cercanos a la Tierra, conocidos por la sigla NEO, suelen existir entre uno y 10 millones de años, aunque algunos persisten hasta 150 millones.
En el caso de la Tierra, 2026 QQ8 no modifica ninguno de esos equilibrios a gran escala. Su valor reside en la observación de un proceso breve: una roca de dimensiones modestas entra en la zona de influencia terrestre, completa parte de un recorrido condicionado por esa atracción y vuelve a integrarse en su órbita solar. Desde diciembre, la miniluna dejará de acompañar al planeta, pero sus mediciones permitirán afinar modelos sobre estas visitas temporales.
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The husband of a TV anchor was arrested in Pakistan Sunday after his wife was found dead with a gunshot wound to the head, according to officials.
Rabiya Ahsan, 41, was allegedly killed inside her home in Rawalpindi, according to Punjab Information Minister Azma Zahid Bokhari.
Ahsan worked as a program host for 92 News, where she established herself as a dedicated journalist alongside senior colleagues. She also frequently posted videos about national affairs on social media.
Officials identified her husband as Ahsan Tahir Khan, who claimed he was playing with a firearm in the home when it accidentally discharged, Bokhari said.
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News anchor Rabiya Ahsan speaks in a video recorded before she was found fatally shot Sunday. (@rabiyaahsanofficial/Instagram)
Khan reportedly works as a civil service officer at the Overseas Pakistanis Foundation, a government agency that supports citizens living abroad, according to local outlet The Express Tribune, citing police sources.
Police are preparing to pursue a murder case against the suspect, according to the report.
Rawalpindi police also confirmed in a post on X that a woman was killed in a Sunday shooting but did not immediately identify her.
Authorities said officers seized the suspected weapon in connection with the husband’s arrest.
Ahsan’s body was also transferred to a hospital for a postmortem examination.
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Ahsan was found dead in her home in Pakistan over the weekend. (@Rabiya_Ahsan/X)
The news of her death sparked an outpouring of grief across Pakistan’s journalism community.
«I am deeply saddened to learn that our ex-colleague anchorperson Rabiya Ahsan is no longer with us,» one former colleague said on X.
The Pakistani presidency also expressed sadness over the killing and called for a transparent investigation to ensure those responsible are held accountable.
«The First Lady has expressed deep sadness over the killing of journalist Rabia Ahsan and strongly condemned the violence,» the statement read, referring to First Lady Aseefa Bhutto-Zardari.
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Rabiya Ahsan, 41, addresses viewers in a social media video recorded before her death. (@Rabiya_Ahsan/X)
She also voiced concern over what she described as a «disturbing pattern» of professional women being targeted and allegedly killed by their husbands in the same metropolitan area.
The first lady recalled the case of Hina Javed, a media executive who was found dead with signs of torture three months ago, according to Dawn. Her husband and a domestic worker were reportedly arrested in connection with her killing.
«Such incidents demand serious attention and accountability. Women must be able to live and work without fear for their lives,» the Pakistani presidency said.
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Shanghai-based tycoon Neville Roy Singham’s ‘Squad,’ Bernie Sanders donations resurface
A Shanghai-based tycoon known for pushing Chinese Communist Party talking points, whose activist network is flooding Capitol Hill this week, has directly funded some of the most powerful progressives in Congress, including members of «The Squad.»
Federal Election Commission records show that Neville Roy Singham and his wife, CodePink co-founder Jodie Evans, have given more than a combined $47,000 to Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Reps. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., and Chuy García, D-Ill.
Omar’s campaign took $4,200 from the couple from 2019 to 2023, according to FEC records. Singham gave her campaign $2,700 in March 2019, just weeks after she took office, and Evans gave $1,500 in two contributions in November and December 2023. None of it has been refunded.
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Sanders’ campaigns have taken in at least $6,800 from the couple, according to FEC records, most of it for his presidential bids. Singham gave $2,700 to Sanders’ 2016 presidential campaign. Evans gave the 2016 campaign $2,800, of which it refunded $200, and at least $252 to his 2020 campaign in 2019. She also gave $1,250 to his Senate campaign committee, Friends of Bernie Sanders, in 2011.
García’s campaign took in $1,000 from Singham in August 2018, according to FEC records. He was running for his first term in Congress at the time, after winning the Democratic primary for Illinois’ 4th Congressional District, Singham’s home city of Chicago. The campaign has not refunded the contribution.
Jayapal has received more from the couple than any other member of Congress, a net $35,700 from 2016 to 2022, according to FEC records. Singham gave her campaign $17,800 and none of it was refunded. Evans gave $22,900, and the campaign refunded $5,000 of it in three payments between 2020 and 2023, leaving $17,900. Most of the couple’s money came in 2019 and 2021, including back-to-back maximum contributions from Singham in both years.
Under Federal Election Commission rules, a campaign has 10 days to decide whether to deposit a check or return it.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s, D-NY, campaign returned a $500 contribution from Evans through ActBlue on the day it arrived, Aug. 4, 2018, during her first run for Congress.
Digital reached out to the offices of Sanders, Jayapal, García and Ocasio-Cortez and Omar’s office for comment but did not receive responses.
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After his wedding to Evans in 2017 and the sale of ThoughtWorks, the technology company he founded, Singham directed $285 million to nonprofits and media organizations, according to a Digital investigation. The People’s Forum received $22.4 million from Singham, while CodePink received $1.33 million. BreakThrough BT Media Inc., which operates BreakThrough News, received $1.098 million, according to tax filings. Singham and his wife, who are both American citizens, now live in Shanghai, China.
Organizations within the Singham network regularly participate in staged anti-ICE, anti-capitalist, anti-data centers and anti-Israel protests – many of which garner national and social media coverage.
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Last month, Evans and CodePink co-founder Medea Benjamin embarked on a China propaganda tour across the communist country.
The trip, according to an event promotion link for sign-up on the CodePink website, was 12 days and 11 nights in Shanghai, Chongqing, Zunyi, Loushanguan, Maotai Village and Guiyang with the cost of attendance between $3,000 and $4,000 depending on the total number of participants. The CodePink website said attendees will be «greeted by local Shanghai comrades,» and a tour with Benjamin and Code Pink co-founder Jodie Evans is included.
«Explore China’s revolutionary history, while marveling at high-tech infrastructure and modern socialist development,» the event description reads. «Highlights include Red Memorials, Historical Re-Enactments and Museums, Socialist Infrastructure, and Rural Revitalization.»
Singham’s wife’s California-based nonprofit does not shy away from their mission to rebrand China as an ally – displaying the tagline «China is not our enemy» on their website while actively promoting the «revolutionary history» of the communist country.
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A slew of federal and congressional investigations have been opened into the Singham network, including a grand jury probe led by the Department of Justice and the Southern District of New York – though Singham has yet to be charged with any crime.
During a House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on South and Central Asia committee hearing in September, Mike Gonzalez, a senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation, cited research saying Singham shares premises with Maku Cultural Communication, a Chinese communications firm that promotes a favorable image of China, and was photographed attending a Chinese Communist Party strategic communications workshop in 2023.
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In a video that Digital unearthed, Singham stood at the Golden Tulip Hotel in Shanghai during a November 2025 conference and expressed support for «a new world order that is based on multilateralism that President Xi and the CPC [Communist Party of China] and China have proposed.»
Earlier this year, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent traveled to New York City for a meeting with Goldman Sachs Chairman and CEO David Solomon, and sources told Digital that Bessent gave a blunt ultimatum to Solomon.
Bessent told Solomon that Goldman Sachs could face scrutiny for alleged conspiracy in the funneling of the Singham money and urged Solomon to cooperate with federal investigators.
A person familiar with the meeting told Digital that the discussion wasn’t contentious and that Solomon readily agreed to pledge his cooperation with the Justice Department investigation. A spokesperson for the bank said «all distributions from Mr. Singham’s donor-advised fund were made to legal nonprofits, as determined by the IRS. There have been no distributions from the account since August 2023, and it was closed in early 2024.»
Digital reached out to Singham, CodePink and Evans but did not receive responses.
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