Adam Rawnsley is a Philadelphia-based reporter covering technology and national security. He co-authors FP’s Situation Report newsletter and has written for The Daily Beast, Wired, and War Is Boring.
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Afghan security personnel stand guard at the scene of a roadside bomb explosion at Khair Khana in Kabul on March 29, 2016.
A roadside bomb attack in a residential area of Kabul killed two civilians and wounded nine people, Sediq Sediqqi, the Spokesperson to the Afghan Ministry of Interior Affairs, said. / AFP / WAKIL KOHSAR (Photo credit should read WAKIL KOHSAR/AFP/Getty Images)
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SEATTLE (Nov. 20, 2014) A P-8A Poseidon aircraft departs Boeing Field in Seattle for Naval Air Station Jacksonville, Fla., where it will join other Poseidon aircraft as part of the War Eagles of Patrol Squadron (VP) 16, the Navy's first operational P-8A squadron. This marks the delivery of the 19th long-range maritime patrol aircraft to the Navy. The multi-mission aircraft, based on the next-generation Boeing 737-800 platform, provides anti-submarine warfare, anti-surface warfare, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities and will replace the Navy P-3 Orion fleet. (U.S. Navy photo courtesy of Boeing Aircraft/Released)
Syrian opposition fighters from the Syrian Free Army fire a home-made rocket launcher connected to a tractor in the Sheikh Maqsud neighbourhood of the northern Syrian city of Aleppo on December 2, 2015. AFP PHOTO / ISMAIL ABDULRAHMAN / AFP / ISMAIL ABDULRAHMAN (Photo credit should read ISMAIL ABDULRAHMAN/AFP/Getty Images)
The P-8 Poseidon is parked at the Paya Lebar Airbase in Singapore on August 1, 2014. The P-8 Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft, capable of hunting submarines, participated for the first time in the Singapore-US CARAT exercise, an annual bilateral naval drill with the city-state, one of the US closest security partners in Asia. The US Navy maintains a logistical command unit in Singapore to coordinate warship deployment and logistic in the region. AFP PHOTO/MOHD FYROL (Photo credit should read MOHD FYROL/AFP/Getty Images)
Members of the security forces walk at the site of a NATO airstrike which destroyed two fuel tankers hijacked by the Taliban in northern Kunduz on September 4, 2009. A NATO airstrike destroyed two fuel tankers hijacked by the Taliban in Afghanistan, igniting a fireball that an Afghan official said killed about 90 people - mostly insurgents. AFP PHOTO/STR (Photo credit should read STR/AFP/Getty Images)
This picture taken from a Vietnam Coast Guard ship on May 14, 2014 shows a Vietnamese Coast Guard ship (L) is challended by a China Coast Guard ship near to the site of a Chinese drilling oil rig (R, background) being installed at the disputed water in the South China Sea off Vietnam's central coast. Vietnam National Assembly's deputies gathered for their summer session are discussing the escalating tension with China over the South China Sea's contested water. AFP PHOTO/HOANG DINH Nam (Photo credit should read HOANG DINH NAM/AFP/Getty Images)
IN FLIGHT - JULY 6: In this handout image provided by the U.S. Air Force, an F-15 Strike Eagle flies over Southwest Asia during combat operations in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom July 6, 2004 while in flight. (Photo by Lee O. Tucker/U.S. Air Force via Getty Images)
Smoke billows following reported air strikes by Syrian government forces in a rebel-held area of Daraa in southern Syria, on February 17, 2016. / AFP / MOHAMAD ABD ABAZID (Photo credit should read MOHAMAD ABD ABAZID/AFP/Getty Images)
WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 30: `U.S. President Barack Obama waits on the South Lawn as he retuns to the White House after having lunch with formerly incarcerated individuals who have received commutations, on March 30, 2016 in Washington, D.C.. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch-Pool/Getty Images)
LAS VEGAS, NV - DECEMBER 19: A pair of F-15C fighter jets from Nellis Air Force Base perform a flyover before the Brigham Young Cougars and Utah Utes play in the Royal Purple Las Vegas Bowl at Sam Boyd Stadium on December 19, 2015 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Utah won 35-28. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images)
US troops with Abrams tanks exercise at the taining range in Drawsko Pomorskie on May 7, 2015. AFP PHOTO / JANEK SKARZYNSKI (Photo credit should read JANEK SKARZYNSKI/AFP/Getty Images)
