Jared Keller

Jared Keller is the Managing Editor for content at Military.com. He is the former managing editor of Task & Purpose and previously worked for The Atlantic, Bloomberg Media, Al Jazeera America, and Maxim magazine. A former columnist for Pacific Standard magazine (RIP), his writing has appeared in Entrepreneur, Fast Company, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Smithsonian magazine, Wired, and many other outlets.

Email: Jared.Keller@Military.com

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A viewing of ‘Mission: Impossible -- Dead Reckoning Part One’ at Camp David heightened President Joe Biden’s concern about the dangers of artificial intelligence, or AI.

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Lockheed Martin's Indirect Fire Protection Capability-High Energy Laser

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U.S. soldiers, assigned to 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment, train with the Integrated Visual Augmentation System and the Enhanced Night Vision Goggles during Project Convergence 2022 (PC22) at Fort Irwin, Calif.

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Airman checks pallets of 155 mm shells ultimately bound for Ukraine.

Russian Fronts, Criminal Gangs: US Couldn't Account for Weapons Sent to Ukraine Last Year

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