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The Authority We Cannot Keep
Washington announced permanent control of Greenland on Friday. The two governments that must ratify it announced, in the same breath, that the text [...] More
How China Is Building an Architecture of Control Across the Heart of Asia
In the years following the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan, much of the world treated the region as strategically peripheral - unstable, [...] More
Dark Transits are a Stopgap not a Solution
Washington has accomplished an important feat by stealthily moving oil through the Persian Gulf despite Iran’s proclaimed closure. But the means it [...] More
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
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
