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Subterranean Warfare - An Urgent DoW Need Without An Owner

Steve Blank

Subterranean Warfare - An Urgent DoW Need Without An Owner

The DoW urgently needs to organize its scattered subterranean warfare assets into a single unified organization. Ideally, a Direct Reporting [...] More

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Hegseth’s Vision for a New American Military

Walter Pincus

Hegseth’s Vision for a New American Military

“It's worth saying again so that the fake news understands it. We are no longer the woke department or the weak department. Simple translation of [...] More

Walter Pincus Fine Print

Election Security: Keeping Our Disagreements Our Own

Shelby L. Pierson

Election Security: Keeping Our Disagreements Our Own

About one month before Election Day, Americans deserve to know how their government is protecting elections from foreign threats. The Pentagon’s [...] More

The Pentagon’s 2027 Drone Problem

Richard Berry

The Pentagon’s 2027 Drone Problem

On September 30, at Quantico, the Secretary of War announced a four-star command for autonomous warfare. The memorandum behind it is two pages long. [...] More

Iran Calls Itself the Victim, Its Record Tells Another Story

Ambassador Joseph DeTrani

Iran Calls Itself the Victim, Its Record Tells Another Story

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian’s speech at the United Nations did not mention Iran’s history of terrorism and the thousands of innocent victims [...] More

Ambassador Joseph DeTrani

How the Intelligence Community Can Shape AI Trust With New Terminology

Dr. Jerry Laurienti

How the Intelligence Community Can Shape AI Trust With New Terminology

The Intelligence Community (IC) has an opportunity now to influence how we talk about, and thus how we approach, AI use in our work by formally [...] More

Dr. Jerry Laurienti

The Houthis Took the Red Sea Coast. How Did Washington Miss It?

Mark Fowler

The Houthis Took the Red Sea Coast. How Did Washington Miss It?

The recent military moves taken by Yemens Houthis resulted in stunning victories and significant strategic gains, virtually unopposed. By taking the [...] More

AI Is Coming to the Counter-Drone Fight

Walter Pincus

AI Is Coming to the Counter-Drone Fight

“Twenty years ago, the state of North Dakota poured in multiple millions of dollars to figure out what it looks like to do beyond visual [...] More

Walter Pincus Fine Print

Trump’s Rejection of Iran Offer Highlights Another Big Problem

Richard Berry

Trump’s Rejection of Iran Offer Highlights Another Big Problem

Beijing says artificial intelligence will give the state a visible hand to allocate capital. Here’s the rub: Washington’s economic authority sits in [...] More

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NATO Can’t Count Its Way to Maritime Superiority

Matthew Van Wagenen

NATO Can’t Count Its Way to Maritime Superiority

Allied navies are still counting hulls. The contest at sea is now about who sees, decides, and acts first.Earlier this month, Western officials [...] More

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A warning about ‘model welfare’

Mustafa Suleyman

A warning about ‘model welfare’

Download a highlighted marked-up version of the Claude ConstitutionDownload the taxonomy as a PDFThis essay was originally published here and is [...] More

When Threats Move Faster Than Institutions

Jennifer Ewbank

When Threats Move Faster Than Institutions

A major aspect of the national security story of the past year comes down to one gap. Our adversaries, and increasingly the machines they use, now [...] More

Putin Is Testing the West’s Resolve

Rob Dannenberg

Putin Is Testing the West’s Resolve

In the preface to volume one, “The Gathering Storm,” of his six-volume memoir of World War II, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill recalls a [...] More