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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
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
The Military’s Race to Operationalize AI
“I feel as though I was catapulted into a dystopian future in which the battlefield (or ‘kill zone’ as Ukrainians call it) is dominated by drones and [...] More
The Authority We Cannot Keep
Washington announced permanent control of Greenland on Friday. The two governments that must ratify it announced, in the same breath, that the text [...] More
How China Is Building an Architecture of Control Across the Heart of Asia
In the years following the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan, much of the world treated the region as strategically peripheral - unstable, [...] More
Dark Transits are a Stopgap not a Solution
Washington has accomplished an important feat by stealthily moving oil through the Persian Gulf despite Iran’s proclaimed closure. But the means it [...] More
