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The Bells are Ringing Again, and This Time Sweden is Inside the Alliance
On August 25, CIA Director John Ratcliffe landed in Moscow. He met Russian officials, warned them against attacking NATO, raised Moscow’s support for [...] More
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
