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We Are In An Unpredictable War Of Attrition
We are squarely in the target sights of ‘Unintended Consequences.’What do I mean by this? Think of it as a broad spectrum of possible consequences [...] More
Can America’s All-Volunteer Force Survive the Next War?
“It made sense for the United States to transition from this mixed force of conscripts and professionals to an All-Volunteer Force. It has enabled us [...] More
Not the Destroyer of Worlds: Why Compute is Humanity’s Most Vital Defense
Eighty years ago, the architects of our first dual-use revolution whispered that they had “become Death, the destroyer of worlds.” Today, a new power [...] More
The Compute We Cannot Power
On September 9, Oracle reported a cloud backlog of $664 billion — up $209 billion from a year earlier, an order book the size of a mid-cap national [...] More
25 years after 9/11. Whatever happened to mass-effect terrorism?
One remaining mystery about 9/11 is why there have been no attacks of comparable scale since. But, with the combination of new motivations, enhanced [...] More
Twenty-Five Years Later, Remembering 9/11
In “Aftermath,” a 1919 retrospective poem on his war, Siegfried Sassoon asked: “Have you forgotten yet?” “Look up,” he appealed, “and swear by the [...] More
