U.S. National Security

Greenlanders rejected U.S. President Donald Trump's renewed call for U.S. control of Greenland at a traditional kayaking championship in Nuuk. Trump made the demand at a NATO summit in Ankara, arguing it was important for U.S. national security.

The Cuban Anti-Communist Foundation organized a caravan from Tropical Park to Manolo Reyes Park in Southwest Miami-Dade to demand action against the Cuban regime. Participants called for dismantling the regime, citing humanitarian crises and threats to U.S. national security.

The article argues that the U.S. faces a critical gap between how confident its strategic decisions appear and how reliable they actually are, particularly in Gray Zone conflicts. It identifies institutional overconfidence as a structural problem in national security decision-making, where judgments expressed with 80-90% confidence often prove accurate only 50-70% of the time in complex environments. The author uses Afghanistan as a case study of how extensive analysis and documentation failed to create a unified learning system to prevent strategic failures.

The article warns of potential severe consequences for international peace and U.S. national security due to Trump's flawed strategic communications in Iran. It calls on congressional Republicans to exercise their constitutional powers to intervene timely.