Brain games can help boost focus, attention and improve processing speed. The best games to train brains are different to ticklers like wordle and cross words. Exercise and diet can also help suppress slowing cognitive functions.

The author argues Australia is unlikely to face invasion, yet it remains exposed. The real risk is disruption to fuel, trade, and supply chains — national resilience, not distant warfighting, is the priority for keeping the country functioning.

An acute global shortage of memory chips is forcing artificial intelligence and consumer-electronics companies to compete for dwindling and increasingly costly supplies. This could slow AI-based productivity gains and delay investment in digital infrastructure.

A senior pilot stayed in a dangerous airspace to protect their team, using quick decisions and skilful flying to manage missile threats and severe fuel limits, leading from the front and keeping everyone alive.

Oversleeping isn’t usually the problem itself. Seven to nine hours remains the healthy range; sleeping much longer often signals underlying physical or mental health issues rather than causing them.

Insomnia may arise from a weakened or delayed circadian rhythm that keeps the brain in “day-mode” at night. Poor sleepers show flattened mental rhythms and struggle to shift into the dream-like state needed for healthy rest.

Writing reshapes the brain. It names pain, creates distance, and brings clarity. It calms threat responses, strengthens decision-making, and builds resilience through presence, meaning-making, and deliberate reflection.

Bullying and hazing behaviours in US military are expected to increase significantly after Secretary of Defense announced proscriptions against bullying and hazing were “undercutting commanders”. This highlights the need for consistent messaging in line with extant policy.

Since 2021, China’s rhetoric toward NATO has shifted sharply negative, portraying NATO as a U.S. 'hegemonic tool' exporting instability to Asia. The narrative is driven by alignment with Russia and broader ideological confrontation with the West.

To remedy some of the problems that have hampered war-gaming for years, USAF plans to use WarMatrix—an AI-powered, cloud-based system that can run simulations 10,000x faster, enhance realism, decision-making, and scalability for joint operations.