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Breaking Down our "Red October" Moment for AI

Mark Munsell

Breaking Down our "Red October" Moment for AI

EXPERT PERSPECTIVE/OPINON -- In the climax of the 1990 movie “The Hunt for Red October”, the Soviet captain of the V.K. Konovalov makes a fatal [...] More

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Why Russia’s War Effort Signals Strategic Decline

Walter Pincus

Why Russia’s War Effort Signals Strategic Decline

OPINION — “Despite claims of battlefield momentum in Ukraine, the data shows that Russia is paying an extraordinary price for minimal gains and is in [...] More

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The Cognitive Battlefield is Now Decisive Terrain

Bob Pearson

The Cognitive Battlefield is Now Decisive Terrain

OPINION -- Senior policymakers, military leaders, technologists and narrative strategists had one thing on their minds as they gathered in a Reston [...] More

Tech/CyberAlternative Perspectives

Alliances, Ukraine, and China’s Growing Challenge

Evelyn Farkas

Alliances, Ukraine, and China’s Growing Challenge

EXPERT Q&A — Evelyn Farkas has spent decades working at the center of U.S. national security and transatlantic defense policy. A former Deputy [...] More

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Defending the Homeland: Pentagon Shifts Strategy on Drone Threats

Walter Pincus

Defending the Homeland: Pentagon Shifts Strategy on Drone Threats

OPINION — “This memorandum consolidates approximately ten separate outdated memoranda that were inadequate to address the current, complex unmanned [...] More

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Media Literacy Isn’t Enough Anymore

Jennifer Ewbank

Media Literacy Isn’t Enough Anymore

OPINION — For years, media literacy has been treated as the solution to misinformation. I've advocated that position as well.Teach people to question [...] More

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

Standing Up to a Spy: My Run-In with Aldrich Ames

Renee Pruneau Novakoff

Standing Up to a Spy: My Run-In with Aldrich Ames

OPINION — I had an unpleasant episode with Aldrich Ames which taught me some life lessons. I was a mid-level CIA analyst working Caucasus and Central [...] More

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After New START: America Weighs a New Nuclear Strategy

Walter Pincus

After New START: America Weighs a New Nuclear Strategy

OPINION — “Militarily, the expiration [last Thursday] of New START [2010 Treaty with Russia] enables the United States to take parallel steps. We [...] More

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EU Takes Aim at Tehran: IRGC Terror Listing Opens New Front in Europe’s Iran Policy

Michael Jacobson

EU Takes Aim at Tehran: IRGC Terror Listing Opens New Front in Europe’s Iran Policy

OPINION — On January 29, Europe found its voice against Iran’s apparatus of terror. The European Union (EU) announced that it is adding Iran’s [...] More

Middle EastEuropeAlternative Perspectives

Should Western Tech Giants Partner With Pro-Hamas Network Al Jazeera?

Toby Dershowitz

Should Western Tech Giants Partner With Pro-Hamas Network Al Jazeera?

OPINION — A few weeks ago, Al Jazeera named Google Cloud as its primary technology provider for “The Core,” a sweeping program designed to integrate [...] More

Middle EastAlternative Perspectives

Inside the $35 Billion Plan to Track Hypersonic Missiles from Space

Walter Pincus

Inside the $35 Billion Plan to Track Hypersonic Missiles from Space

OPINION — “The Department of Defense’s Space Development Agency (SDA) is developing a new space-based architecture comprised of a large constellation [...] More

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The U.S.-China Economic Cold War Is No Longer Silent

Paul Miller

The U.S.-China Economic Cold War Is No Longer Silent

OPINION — For decades, the United States (U.S.) operated under a fatal delusion that free trade with China would liberalize its politics and that the [...] More

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