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The Year Moscow Felt the War

In Moscow this year, people stopped answering “How are you?” with “Fine.” They started saying, “I’m full tank.”K. first heard it from a friend, right [...] More

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In Its Race to Field AI, The Pentagon’s Testing Can’t Keep Up

CNN reported, citing four sources familiar with the episode, that the U.S. military prepared to intercept a Chinese vessel after an AI-assisted [...] More

The Missing Dimension of Cyber Preparedness

The technical aspect of incident response can be immense. In extreme scenarios, such as the NotPetya incident in 2017, global organisations such as [...] More

BLUF: The Next AI Problem for Intelligence Is Not the Model, It's the Manager

The Intelligence Community has decided AI agents are coming. It has not decided how they will be supervised, checked and held to analytic standards. [...] More

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