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Alex Younger: An Unusually Likeable Human Being, And A Spy

Nick Fishwick

Alex Younger: An Unusually Likeable Human Being, And A Spy

Sir Alex Younger died earlier this week at the age of 62. He had been fighting cancer for some time. Alex was Chief of the Secret Intelligence [...] More

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China’s Uneasy Partnerships With Russia and North Korea

Ambassador Joseph DeTrani

China’s Uneasy Partnerships With Russia and North Korea

China’s summit with Russia last month and the reported likely upcoming visit of President Xi Jinping to North Korea are tactical moves that ignore [...] More

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From Terror Networks to Hybrid Threats: A Partner Approach to a Growing Threat

Colin Clarke

From Terror Networks to Hybrid Threats: A Partner Approach to a Growing Threat

The hybrid threat challenge facing Europe today is reminiscent of the terrorist threat challenge of the post-9/11 Global War on Terrorism (GWOT) era. [...] More

Christopher Costa

Put the Next Generation to Work: Digital Transformation Has Only Just Begun

Mark Munsell

Put the Next Generation to Work: Digital Transformation Has Only Just Begun

Put the Next Generation to Work: Digital Transformation Has Only Just BegunWe are witnessing a historic bottleneck in the technology sector. [...] More

Before Funding a Record Defense Budget, Congress Should Demand Answers on Iran

Michael C. Casey

Before Funding a Record Defense Budget, Congress Should Demand Answers on Iran

As I listened to Defense Secretary Hegseth testify about the proposed $1.5 Trillion defense budget, the quote from Robert Heinlein, the science [...] More

Part II: When a Machiavellian and a Charismatic Met

Dr. Ursula M. Wilder

Part II: When a Machiavellian and a Charismatic Met

In our pre-summit piece on the Xi/Trump meeting [When a Charismatic and a Machiavellian Meet 12 May] we wrote: "When a gifted political charismatic [...] More

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AI, Autonomous Weapons, and the Pentagon’s $55 Billion Bet on Future War

Walter Pincus

AI, Autonomous Weapons, and the Pentagon’s $55 Billion Bet on Future War

“The [Defense] Department (DoD) is requesting a massive increase for DAWG. For those in the audience that may not know, DAWG is the Defense [...] More

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Sweden and Denmark are in a Position of Power Over Russia

Joey Gagnard

Sweden and Denmark are in a Position of Power Over Russia

Two straits, six thousand kilometers apart, are defining the global balance of power in 2026. The first, Hormuz, is closed by force and heavily [...] More

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Rethinking the Intelligence Cycle for the AI Era

Geof Kahn

Rethinking the Intelligence Cycle for the AI Era

There’s a profound assumption embedded in much of today’s conversation about AI and intelligence: better technology will solve our core problems. We [...] More

Inside the FBI’s New Push to Track Leaks and Monitor Employees

Walter Pincus

Inside the FBI’s New Push to Track Leaks and Monitor Employees

OPINION — “The FBI requests $7 million to procure and deploy a digital watermarking solution capable of embedding unique digital forensic watermarks [...] More

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Roses, Trees, and Power: The Symbolism Behind the Trump-Xi Summit

Kenneth Dekleva

Roses, Trees, and Power: The Symbolism Behind the Trump-Xi Summit

Last week’s high-level summit in Beijing between President Trump and President Xi achieved few traditional ‘deliverables’ between the two leaders, [...] More

The administration needs a better relationship with the Vatican

Ambassador Joseph DeTrani

The administration needs a better relationship with the Vatican

President Reagan formed an alliance with Pope John Paul II in the 1980s that contributed to the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.This is a [...] More

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Sustaining Decision Advantage: The Case for Analytic Tradecraft Reform

Brian Lessenberry

Sustaining Decision Advantage: The Case for Analytic Tradecraft Reform

OPINION -- In an era where warfighters and decision-makers have on-demand access to vast data holdings and AI-generated insights, the future of [...] More