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Department Of War

The Pentagon Built a Faster Engine, Nobody Built the Steering

The Department of War has just executed the most ambitious acquisition reform in six decades. It scrapped JCIDS — the requirements process that [...] More

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Breaking Down our "Red October" Moment for AI

OPINION -- In the climax of the 1990 movie “The Hunt for Red October”, the Soviet captain of the V.K. Konovalov makes a fatal error. Intent on [...] More

The Transparency Challenge: Europe’s Defense Supply Chain Blind Spot—and Why the Pentagon Went to War Footing

In this issue we will discuss how the security of the defense industrial base (DIB) has moved from a logistics concern to a Tier-1 strategic threat. [...] More

Defending the Homeland: Pentagon Shifts Strategy on Drone Threats

“This memorandum consolidates approximately ten separate outdated memoranda that were inadequate to address the current, complex unmanned aircraft [...] More

The U.S.-China Economic Cold War Is No Longer Silent

For decades, the United States (U.S.) operated under a fatal delusion that free trade with China would liberalize its politics and that the global [...] More

Dead Drop: Week of September 8

CHINA KILLS ‘IMMORTAL’ VIDEO: Remember that recent video of President Xi and Putin caught on a hot mic talking about how organ transplants may soon [...] More