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The Day We Cannot Choose

Washington made three decisions this week, and none of them has an end date. On the night of October 14, Ukrainian units in the field found that [...] More

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The Next Drone Won't Have a Radio Link, Our Intelligence Enterprise Needs to Plan for That Now

On the last day of the 2026 World Cup, NORAD F-16s fired flares over northern New Jersey to warn off civilian pilots who had flown into restricted [...] More

Election Security: Keeping Our Disagreements Our Own

About one month before Election Day, Americans deserve to know how their government is protecting elections from foreign threats. The Pentagon’s [...] More

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Exactly how could AI kill humans?

Nobel laureate Geoffrey Hinton walked out of a closed-door Capitol Hill briefing on September 17 and gave lawmakers a deadline.“Maybe a year, but not [...] More

BLUF: Russian Strategic Culture Drives its Callous and Brutal Actions

My friends and family often ask me why Russia behaves so offensively. They are baffled by Russia’s lack of humanity and Moscow’s actions such as [...] More

How the Intelligence Community Can Shape AI Trust With New Terminology

The Intelligence Community (IC) has an opportunity now to influence how we talk about, and thus how we approach, AI use in our work by formally [...] More

Trump’s Rejection of Iran Offer Highlights Another Big Problem

Beijing says artificial intelligence will give the state a visible hand to allocate capital. Here’s the rub: Washington’s economic authority sits in [...] More

A warning about ‘model welfare’

Download a highlighted marked-up version of the Claude ConstitutionDownload the taxonomy as a PDFThis essay was originally published here and is [...] More

AI Is Coming for the Chain of Command

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 [...] More

The Nations That Don’t Appear on the Map

The most influential media network operating inside a dozen allied countries today has no masthead, no headquarters and no country of incorporation. [...] More

Heads They Win, Tails They Win: The CMMC Trap and the Way Out

Here is a prediction from inside the compliance trenches: the CMMC Reform Task Force closed its sixty-day review on September 11 and is now [...] 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

When Policy and War Collapse Into One: Fighting in the Sixth Domain

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 [...] More