Topic: Defense Policy
Defense Policy
has 53.7% among topics.
BS Score: 3.6%.
Articles analyzed: 3.
Words analyzed: 3,792.
Analyzed articles
MS NOW
- By Steve Benen
- 6/18/2026, 7:52 PM
Post Hoc (False Cause) 26.6% - Status Quo Bias 21.9% - Negativity Bias 21.6%
The latest flu season generated 340,000 hospitalizations and 21,000 deaths in the United States. Nevertheless, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, instead of focusing his energies on the ongoing war, came up with a bold idea in April: The Pentagon he leads would no longer mandate flu vaccines for service members. While service members could... more
The Japan Times
- By Michael Macarthur Bosack
- 6/17/2026, 2:52 AM
Hasty Generalization 29.3% - Representativeness Heuristic 19% - Framing Effect 13.8%
When the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan’s (CDP) Chikage Koga said that volunteers enlisting in the Self-Defense Forces are economically disadvantaged, she rekindled a long-standing debate over the SDF’s characterizations in political discourse — exposing a widening gap between public support and the political debates that... more
The Japan Times
- By Jesse Johnson
- 3/31/2026, 2:27 AM
Framing Effect 31.9% - Appeal to Authority 28.6% - Confirmation Bias 25.2%
Japan has for the first time deployed its homegrown longer-range missiles and new hyper velocity gliding projectiles (HVGP) to military bases as the country’s “counterstrike capability” begins to take shape. The upgraded Type-12 surface-to-ship missiles, which have a range of about 1,000 kilometers, were officially set up at the Ground... more