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The American Vanguard

AUSA 2026: Billions in Defense Spending, Drone Autonomy, and the Democratic Accountability Questions Voters Should Be Asking

Every year, the Association of the United States Army convenes in Washington to chart the future of American military power — and the decisions made in those halls directly affect hundreds of thousands of service members who are also voters. This year's conference, held October 12–14, placed automation, unmanned systems, and rapid modernization front and center, but it also surfaced urgent questions about democratic accountability, military pay fairness, civilian oversight, and the voting rights of deployed troops that every American citizen deserves to understand.

U.S. Troops Are Expanding Operations in Panama. Voters Should Know Why.

When American voters go to the polls, they're choosing leaders who will make decisions about where U.S. troops are deployed, what alliances are built, and how tax dollars are spent abroad. The quiet but rapidly expanding U.S. military presence in Panama is exactly the kind of policy decision that flows directly from those electoral choices — and it's one that most Americans know almost nothing about.