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Congress Questions Pentagon Spending—and the Future of Trump’s Battleship

Walter Pincus

Congress Questions Pentagon Spending—and the Future of Trump’s Battleship

“I’m deeply concerned that the Presidential proposal for $350 billion mandatory funding [to be carried in a reconciliation bill and not an [...] More

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Cuba’s New Spy Array Raises Concerns for U.S. Security

Renee Pruneau Novakoff

Cuba’s New Spy Array Raises Concerns for U.S. Security

BLUFF — On 18 June, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) researchers released a new study that says Cuba has completed construction [...] More

Renee Pruneau Novakoff

The Deal That Should Not Have Happened

Chip Usher

The Deal That Should Not Have Happened

The announcement of a ceasefire between the United States and Iran surprised many observers. The underlying conditions appeared unfavorable to an [...] More

Chip Usher

Before the IC Trusts AI, It Needs to Prove It Can Assure It

Gloria Glaubman

Before the IC Trusts AI, It Needs to Prove It Can Assure It

Artificial intelligence is moving quickly into national security work. That is not a future trend. It is already happening in analysis, collection [...] More

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Learning Velocity: The Next Strategic Advantage

Bob Pearson

Learning Velocity: The Next Strategic Advantage

Entrepreneurs realize that speed compresses learning. They know some of their initial assumptions will be wrong or only partially right, so going [...] More

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The Forty-Year Cyber Policy Failure Congress Refuses to Address

Matt Stern

The Forty-Year Cyber Policy Failure Congress Refuses to Address

Late last month, the former deputy assistant director of the FBI's Cyber Division testified before the House Homeland Security Committee that the [...] More

A Historic Summit between China and North Korea

Ambassador Joseph DeTrani

A Historic Summit between China and North Korea

There was no absence of Chinese and North Korean media coverage of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to North Korea for meetings with Chairman Kim [...] More

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AI Is Speeding Up Intelligence, But Not the System Around It

Geof Kahn

AI Is Speeding Up Intelligence, But Not the System Around It

AI is compressing parts of the intelligence cycle, but modernization is occurring unevenly across collection, analysis, validation, dissemination, [...] More

Can the Pentagon Buy Faster Before the Next War Arrives?

Walter Pincus

Can the Pentagon Buy Faster Before the Next War Arrives?

“The reasons why DoD (the Defense Department) accepts flawed business cases are both structural and cultural in nature. Poor acquisition decisions [...] More

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Economic Security in an Age of Strategic Competition

Calder Walton

Economic Security in an Age of Strategic Competition

There is a growing perception among long-standing US allies that they need to expand commercial relations with the People’s Republic of China (PRC). [...] More

Calder Walton

The Morning Brief: What the PDB Can Offer the Corporate Leadership Team

Phillip Consentino

The Morning Brief: What the PDB Can Offer the Corporate Leadership Team

CEOs of major corporations need to make hugely consequential decisions every day, but many start their mornings in fragmented and reactive [...] More

How Gulf States Turned Crisis Into Confidence

Patrick Weninger

How Gulf States Turned Crisis Into Confidence

The Epidemic of PatriotismHow war, intelligence, technology, and state competence are building a new nationalism in the Gulf.There is an old idea in [...] More

The Forgotten History Moscow Doesn’t Want Remembered

Glenn Corn

The Forgotten History Moscow Doesn’t Want Remembered

Sadly, few in the U.S. and Europe know the complicated history of the Kremlin’s actions in the years leading up to Hitler’s Invasion of the USSR. [...] More