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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 New Extremist Recruitment Funnel Starts With Children

OPINION -- Technology has a way of helping us skip steps.China skipped mass adoption of credit cards and went straight to mobile payments. Nigeria [...] More

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

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

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

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

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

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

How Extremist Groups Are Sharing a Global Media Strategy

In the private sector, we analyze competitors to understand where they excel, so we can improve our approach. With this same mindset, I reviewed how [...] More

An FBI Perspective on FISA Section 702

I spent twenty years at the FBI supporting investigations into cybercrime, tracking ransomware gangs, and watching foreign adversaries tear through [...] More

Why Greenland is the Linchpin of the Golden Dome

When President Trump first proposed the purchase of Greenland, the world’s reaction leaned toward mockery. But as the strategic landscape of the [...] More

No Ideology: America's Deadliest Extremists

She Was 13. She'd Been Inside This World Since She Was 8.A week after her birthday, Audree was dead.Her mother didn't know why – not until a [...] More