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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

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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

The Nuclear Arms Race Is Accelerating — and the U.N. Looks Increasingly Powerless

Ambassador Joseph DeTrani

The Nuclear Arms Race Is Accelerating — and the U.N. Looks Increasingly Powerless

OPINION – Last week, the 11th Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, currently in session at the [...] More

Ambassador Joseph DeTrani

Congress Faces a Growing Blind Spot in the Pentagon’s Expanding Budget

Walter Pincus

Congress Faces a Growing Blind Spot in the Pentagon’s Expanding Budget

OPINION -- “That brings me to a concern I want to put on the record. In addition to the billions requested for the F-35 [fighter-bomber] enterprise, [...] More

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Confidence, Interoperability, and the Limits of U.S. Decision Systems

Masoud Andarabi

Confidence, Interoperability, and the Limits of U.S. Decision Systems

OPINION -- In recent months, U.S. policy debates have increasingly acknowledged that the decisive contests of the 21st century will not be fought [...] More

Why June Is the Oil Market’s Point of No Return

Chip Usher

Why June Is the Oil Market’s Point of No Return

OPINION -- Two months into the U.S.-Iran war, the global oil market has shifted from shock to siege. The Strait of Hormuz — through which roughly 20 [...] More

Chip Usher

The New Extremist Recruitment Funnel Starts With Children

Bob Pearson

The New Extremist Recruitment Funnel Starts With Children

OPINION -- Technology has a way of helping us skip steps.China skipped mass adoption of credit cards and went straight to mobile payments. Nigeria [...] More

The Intelligence Community’s Acquisition Revolution: Can Washington Move Fast Enough?

Gloria Glaubman

The Intelligence Community’s Acquisition Revolution: Can Washington Move Fast Enough?

OPINION -- On February 9, the CIA announced a major overhaul of its technology acquisition from the private sector. Director John Ratcliffe described [...] More

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Two Fronts, One War: Why Ukraine and Iran Are Part of the Same Fight

Glenn Corn

Two Fronts, One War: Why Ukraine and Iran Are Part of the Same Fight

OPINION -- I recently had the opportunity to take part in a panel discussion on geopolitical issues at the Kyiv Security Forum in Kyiv. One of the [...] More