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The Command We Must Fund

The Army's Armored Force was born in July 1940, a few weeks after France fell. No act of Congress created it, and no budget line funded it. The Chief [...] More

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Fire Base Australia: Can America’s Southern Base Sustain a Pacific War?

American access to Australian bases is only as valuable as Australia’s ability to keep them operating under attack. For Washington, expanding [...] More

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The Coming Age of Robotic Warfare

A battalion of armed robots moves against a unit of soldiers, aiming to seize territory. In the ensuing battle, the robots open fire, communicate [...] More

The Command We Must Start

In 1928, Secretary of War Dwight Davis ordered the Army to assemble an experimental mechanized force of tanks, armored cars, and motorized infantry [...] More

The Terms We Must Set

On October 23, Russia's deputy prime minister said three tankers were at sea, that supply contracts were being finalized, and that volumes would rise [...] More

The Intelligence Community’s Missing Discipline

Economic statecraft has become a primary instrument of US national security, deployed with a frequency and ambition that outpaces the intelligence [...] More

We’re Losing the Cognitive Space Race

Over the last century, modern medicine achieved a historic feat. We increased the human lifespan by 33%. But at the same time, we completely failed [...] More

The Thirteenth Mile: This Is What Gray Zone War Looks Like

On the morning of October 23, the cargo ship Khoryv sent a distress call 13 nautical miles off Constanța, Romania. Territorial waters end at twelve. [...] More

Russia Never Left the International Financial System. It Built a Way Back In.

A7’s OpenAI prompt was six words long: "Translate [name] to [language]. Answer only translated text."Developer code leaked in 2025 from A7—the [...] More

Technology Is Outrunning the Way We Fight

The United States is racing to field AI and autonomous systems. It is not racing to figure out how to fight with them. This imbalance between [...] More

Hybrid Threats: Why Awareness Must Transcend Individual Cyberattacks

Every October, Cybersecurity Awareness Month puts practical security measures in the spotlight. Can an employee recognize a phishing email? Will [...] More

America's Counter-Drone Authority Is Real, The Capacity Isn't Yet

Here is a number worth sitting with: federal teams seized roughly 700 drones around World Cup venues this summer. Seven hundred — at one tournament, [...] More

The Hidden Risks of AI-Powered Intelligence

Picture an intelligent analyst's screen. Data about troop movements, a port closure, a terrorist attack, or a weapons transfer sits at the center of [...] More