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The Pakistani General Running Washington’s Backchannel to Tehran

OPINION -- As Washington and Tehran edge closer to escalation, the most critical line of communication keeping the crisis from spiraling is being run [...] More

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America’s Cyber Strategy Has a Budget Problem

The threat from cyberattacks has never been more acute, but there is reason to worry America is not rising to the challenge. It is not the lack of a [...] More

Trump, Iran, and the Stress Test of Western Alliances

The war with Iran has grown beyond just a regional war; it is also a preliminary test of the cohesion of Western alliances under President Donald [...] More

America’s AI Strategy Is Fighting the Last War

Washington’s strategy for artificial general intelligence (AGI), or the ability to replace human cognitive labor, assumes the United States is locked [...] More

Why a War in the Middle East Is Hitting Australians at the Petrol Pump

Economic insulation is no longer guaranteed by geography. Australia is nevertheless very vulnerable to geopolitical unrest in the Middle East despite [...] More

Iran Exposed a New Reality for U.S. Air Power

For thirty years, American wars have contained a quiet assumption: that the skies were uncontested. From Grenada and Panama, through Desert Storm, [...] More

Telling China's Story Well: The PRC's Strategic Narrative as an Instrument of National Power

Executive SummarySince President Xi Jinping's 2013 directive to "tell the story of China well" (讲好中国古事), the People's Republic of China has developed [...] More

Romania Pays the Cyber Price for Backing Ukraine. Where is the EU?

When ransomware groups hit Romania’s national water agency, its largest coal-fired power producer and oil pipeline operator all in recent months, it [...] More

National Security Starts at Home — Not on the Battlefield

The current conflict with Iran highlights a longstanding, core premise that national security comes from visible instruments of power - weapons. [...] More

America’s Drone Future

America is entering a future with millions of drones in our airspace. As the federal government works to determine how to manage what will become the [...] More

AFGHANISTAN-PAKISTAN-CONFLICT

While the World Watches the Middle East, War Is Brewing in South Asia

For decades, strategists have warned that the most dangerous flashpoint in South Asia lies between India and Pakistan. The reasoning appeared [...] More

America Is Digitally Fragile — and Our Adversaries Know It

America has entered a moment in which it is fundamentally more vulnerable than at any point in modern history. For the first time, the systems that [...] More

The Drone War’s Real Problem Isn’t Technology — It’s Speed

When Steve Blank and I sat down over coffee a decade ago and realized that the customer discovery process in Lean was identical to what I'd been [...] More