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A Master List of Espionage Targets, Suspected Spies, and Potential Recruits

Jonathan Fredman

A Master List of Espionage Targets, Suspected Spies, and Potential Recruits

It was with alarm that I read the recent New York Times article reporting the regurgitation of a truly terrible idea that, like a bad meal, continues [...] More

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CIA Deaths Expose Fragile U.S.-Mexico Security Ties

Around two o’clock in the morning of April 19, an SUV veered off a twisting dirt road in a remote corner of the Sierra Madre, plunged into a ravine [...] More

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Why the Navy’s Next Battleship Faces Major Hurdles

Walter Pincus

Why the Navy’s Next Battleship Faces Major Hurdles

“The Navy and Coast Guard need to demonstrate that the approach to these [shipbuilding] programs is not a short-term deviation followed by returning [...] More

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The Dangerous Trade of State Secrets

At just after 2 a.m. on January 3, explosions echoed across Caracas. Low-flying aircraft struck military installations. Venezuelan President Nicolás [...] More

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The Pentagon’s $54 Billion Bet on Autonomous Warfare

Paul Miller

The Pentagon’s $54 Billion Bet on Autonomous Warfare

The Department of Defense does not always announce structural shifts loudly; often, it buries them in the dense columns of budget lines where only [...] More

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The Costly Illusion of the Golden Dome

Walter Pincus

The Costly Illusion of the Golden Dome

“The Golden Dome for America strategy [President Trump’s proposed nationwide anti-missile defense system] remains centered on affordable and scalable [...] More

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An FBI Perspective on FISA Section 702

Cynthia Kaiser

An FBI Perspective on FISA Section 702

I spent twenty years at the FBI supporting investigations into cybercrime, tracking ransomware gangs, and watching foreign adversaries tear through [...] More

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Drones Are Changing Warfare And America Isn’t Ready

Steve Blank

Drones Are Changing Warfare And America Isn’t Ready

Drones in Ukraine and in the War with Iran have made the surface of the earth a contested space. The U.S. has discovered that 1) air superiority and [...] More

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Can the U.S. Win the Critical Minerals Competition?

Can the U.S. Win the Critical Minerals Competition?

What U.S. national security interest binds Greenland, Argentina, the Congo, and the Cook Islands? What was the impetus for the recent “strategic [...] More

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Trump Is Getting His Way in Caracas — But It’s Complicated

Trump Is Getting His Way in Caracas — But It’s Complicated

In 2017, Marco Rubio, then Florida’s junior senator, was assigned a Capitol Police security detail because the U.S. received unverified but alarming [...] More

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The Quiet Expansion of Trump’s War on Cartels

Walter Pincus

The Quiet Expansion of Trump’s War on Cartels

“The [narco-trafficking] boat strikes [in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific] aren't the answer. What we're moving for right now might be an extension [...] More

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America’s Drone Future

Ernestine Fu Mak

America’s Drone Future

America is entering a future with millions of drones in our airspace. As the federal government works to determine how to manage what will become the [...] More

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America Is Digitally Fragile — and Our Adversaries Know It

Lt. Gen. Charles L. Moore Jr. (Ret.)

America Is Digitally Fragile — and Our Adversaries Know It

America has entered a moment in which it is fundamentally more vulnerable than at any point in modern history. For the first time, the systems that [...] More

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