The voice belonged to Gen. Tareq Saleh. It was telling his men to fall back. Or so it seemed.“Advances and retreats are a normal part of war,” the [...]
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The most influential media network operating inside a dozen allied countries today has no masthead, no headquarters and no country of incorporation. [...]
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The most influential media network operating inside a dozen allied countries today has no masthead, no headquarters and no country of incorporation. [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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We may soon face conflict with nation-states in a new model of warfare—one not defined by geography, but instead defined by AIs competing directly [...]
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On September 9, Oracle reported a cloud backlog of $664 billion — up $209 billion from a year earlier, an order book the size of a mid-cap national [...]
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In Washington, Field Marshal Asim Munir increasingly looks like the man who can make Pakistan useful to the United States. Pakistan has just written [...]
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Artificial intelligence, drones and commercial satellites are transforming the way intelligence is collected, analyzed and used — but as technology [...]
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Last week, I argued in these pages that the United States is buying an army it cannot command — writing procurement checks at a scale its adversaries [...]
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The most important lesson emerging from the Iran conflict may not actually be about Iran. It is about the changing economics of warfare and what [...]
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Andy Burnham was a few weeks into the job as the new Prime Minister of the UK when he found himself exchanging messages with someone claiming to be [...]
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In our last two articles for The Cipher Brief, Sami Omari and I explained why modern limited wars are so challenging for democracies.We argued that [...]
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A Post-Cold War Assumption That No Longer HoldsFor three decades, the Alliance operated under a dangerous assumption: that the electromagnetic [...]
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Tehran’s new power brokersA wave of assassinations rebuilt Iran’s leadership from the top down, leaving a severely wounded supreme leader and a [...]
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The U.S. administration’s strategic expectations are increasingly colliding with a set of hard realities. While Iran has taken a considerable [...]
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Almost every AI security framework we are applying rests on one misguided assumption: danger scales with size. Compute thresholds, export controls, [...]
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