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The Next Drone Won't Have a Radio Link, Our Intelligence Enterprise Needs to Plan for That Now

The Next Drone Won't Have a Radio Link, Our Intelligence Enterprise Needs to Plan for That Now

On the last day of the 2026 World Cup, NORAD F-16s fired flares over northern New Jersey to warn off civilian pilots who had flown into restricted [...] More

How America Wins the AI Race With Open Source

Speaking in Shanghai on July 17, Xi Jinping offered the world a vision of AI “for the positive, for good and for humanity.” He called for open [...] More

Unique Risks of AI Adoption in Developing Economies

The U.S. must set dominance of global AI sector as a strategic economic and national security priority. If the PRC becomes the dominant provider of [...] More

Nasrallah is Dead. Hezbollah’s Social Lifeline is Not.

Two years after Israel killed Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah is weaker but not finished. WaTaawanou, a crowdfunded charity outside Hezbollah’s formal [...] More

Two years after Israel killed Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah is weaker but not finished. WaTaawanou, a crowdfunded charity outside Hezbollah’s formal [...] More

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The Coupang Breach and the Danger of Punishing the Headline Number

The Coupang Breach and the Danger of Punishing the Headline Number

The headline number from the Coupang data breach — more than 33 million user accounts — sounds like a major incident that implies a catastrophic [...] More

Iran’s Regime Is Weaker Than It Looks

Iran’s Regime Is Weaker Than It Looks

For five and a half years, I was a hostage of the Islamic Republic of Iran. During that time, I came to believe something about the regime that may [...] More

Navigating a More Uncertain World: Lessons from CIA’s Red Cell

Navigating a More Uncertain World: Lessons from CIA’s Red Cell

Twenty-five years after 9/11, the United States is confronting yet another era of profound uncertainty and potential dangers. The pace and scale of [...] More

AI Is Coming for the Chain of Command

AI Is Coming for the Chain of Command

The voice belonged to Gen. Tareq Saleh. It was telling his men to fall back. Or so it seemed.“Advances and retreats are a normal part of war,” the [...] More

The Nations That Don’t Appear on the Map

The Nations That Don’t Appear on the Map

The most influential media network operating inside a dozen allied countries today has no masthead, no headquarters and no country of incorporation. [...] More

Heads They Win, Tails They Win: The CMMC Trap and the Way Out

Heads They Win, Tails They Win: The CMMC Trap and the Way Out

Here is a prediction from inside the compliance trenches: the CMMC Reform Task Force closed its sixty-day review on September 11 and is now [...] More

Will Physical AI Underpin the Reindustrialization Win that Western Allies Need?

Will Physical AI Underpin the Reindustrialization Win that Western Allies Need?

Having spent most of my life working in “advanced nations” that have strategically accentuated financial and professional services growth while [...] More

The Houthis’ Coastal Gambit

The Houthis’ Coastal Gambit

For the first time in years, large swaths of Yemeni territory are changing hands. The Houthis’ recent losses in the east of the country were quickly [...] More

65 Billion Barrels Is Only the Beginning

65 Billion Barrels Is Only the Beginning

President Trump announced this weekend that the United States had secured majority control over more than 65 billion barrels of Venezuela’s proven [...] More

Setting Terms with America’s Tech Giants

Setting Terms with America’s Tech Giants

If China attacked Taiwan tomorrow, the question might not be which aircraft carrier sails first to the Pacific, but whether a private company will [...] More

When Policy and War Collapse Into One: Fighting in the Sixth Domain

When Policy and War Collapse Into One: Fighting in the Sixth Domain

We may soon face conflict with nation-states in a new model of warfare—one not defined by geography, but instead defined by AIs competing directly [...] More

The Battle for Decision Autonomy, The New Front in Strategic Competition

This is the talk Dave Pitts gave at the Sarajevo Security Conference in September 2026, which was based on the talk presented at the Cognitive [...] More

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