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Pentagon On Lockdown Briefly After False Air Quality Alert

The AI Race Won't Be Won by the Best Model—But by the Fastest Military

The United States Intelligence Community does not ordinarily deal in hyperbole. When the Office of the Director of National Intelligence released its [...] More

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

America’s “Exquisite Class” Weapons Shortage

OPINION — “We just concluded a very good meeting with the largest U.S. Defense Manufacturing Companies where we discussed Production and Production [...] More

The Transparency Challenge: Europe’s Defense Supply Chain Blind Spot—and Why the Pentagon Went to War Footing

In this issue we will discuss how the security of the defense industrial base (DIB) has moved from a logistics concern to a Tier-1 strategic threat. [...] More

From the Monroe Doctrine to Maduro: The Precedent Problem in U.S.

In 1895, Secretary of State Richard Olney sent a diplomatic note to Britain that contained one of the most remarkable sentences in American foreign [...] More

America’s Intelligence Satellites are Proliferating: Their Protection is Not, With Exceptions

The pace of U.S. national-security launches over the past several months has been staggering. But buried beneath the impressive cadence is an [...] More

The 2026 National Defense Strategy: No Surprises but Plenty of Mandate

OPINION The 2026 National Defense Strategy (NDS) follows closely the 2025 National Security Strategy, as it should. It also falls in line with the [...] More