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Intelligence at the Speed of Relevance: Rethinking the Intelligence Cycle for the AI Era

Intelligence at the Speed of Relevance: Rethinking the Intelligence Cycle for the AI Era

OPINION — There’s a profound assumption embedded in much of today’s conversation about AI and intelligence: better technology will solve our core [...] More

Roses, Trees, and Power: The Symbolism Behind the Trump-Xi Summit

OPINION — Last week’s high-level summit in Beijing between President Trump and President Xi achieved few traditional ‘deliverables’ between the two [...] More

The administration needs a better relationship with the Vatican

OPINION — President Reagan formed an alliance with Pope John Paul II in the 1980s that contributed to the dissolution of the Soviet Union in [...] More

Sustaining Decision Advantage: The Case for Analytic Tradecraft Reform

OPINION -- In an era where warfighters and decision-makers have on-demand access to vast data holdings and AI-generated insights, the future of [...] More

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The Nuclear Arms Race Is Accelerating — and the U.N. Looks Increasingly Powerless

The Nuclear Arms Race Is Accelerating — and the U.N. Looks Increasingly Powerless

OPINION – Last week, the 11th Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, currently in session at the [...] More

Confidence, Interoperability, and the Limits of U.S. Decision Systems

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

The Intelligence Community’s Acquisition Revolution: Can Washington Move Fast Enough?

The Intelligence Community’s Acquisition Revolution: Can Washington Move Fast Enough?

OPINION -- On February 9, the CIA announced a major overhaul of its technology acquisition from the private sector. Director John Ratcliffe described [...] More

Two Fronts, One War: Why Ukraine and Iran Are Part of the Same Fight

Two Fronts, One War: Why Ukraine and Iran Are Part of the Same Fight

OPINION -- I recently had the opportunity to take part in a panel discussion on geopolitical issues at the Kyiv Security Forum in Kyiv. One of the [...] More

Getting Our Adversaries Out of Cuba Should be our Immediate Goal

Getting Our Adversaries Out of Cuba Should be our Immediate Goal

OPINION -- Since 1959, the U.S. and Cuban relationship has been defined by gray zone operations that have occasionally broken out into open [...] More

Corporate Cybersecurity Is the New Frontline of National Security

Corporate Cybersecurity Is the New Frontline of National Security

OPINION -- For decades, national security was defined by geography: borders, terrain, and physical infrastructure shaped how nations defended [...] More

Russia’s Victory Day Parade Signals Anything But Victory

Russia’s Victory Day Parade Signals Anything But Victory

Снявший голову, по волосам не плачут(When your head is cut off, you don’t cry about your hair)- Old Russian ProverbOPINION – Russia is readying for [...] More

America Is Fighting the Wrong Drone War

America Is Fighting the Wrong Drone War

America Is Fighting the Wrong Drone War

For two decades, U.S. drones hunting terrorists across the mountains of South Asia were the symbol of American military power: precise, lethal, and [...] More

The Pentagon’s $54 Billion Bet on Autonomous Warfare

The Pentagon’s $54 Billion Bet on Autonomous Warfare

The Department of Defense does not always announce structural shifts loudly; often, it buries them in the dense columns of budget lines where only [...] More

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