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Russia’s Victory Day Parade Signals Anything But Victory

Russia’s Victory Day Parade Signals Anything But V...

14 hours ago 1

The Last Undefended Perimeter

The Last Undefended Perimeter

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Inside the Pentagon’s High-Stakes Nuclear Overhaul

Inside the Pentagon’s High-Stakes Nuclear Overhaul...

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From Socialist Surge to Regional Realignment- Latin America’s Pink Tide Is Receding

From Socialist Surge to Regional Realignment- Lati...

2 days ago 9

Human vs. Machine: Operational Realities from Ukraine’s Frontline

Human vs. Machine: Operational Realities from Ukra...

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That Other Nuclear Nightmare: North Korea Sounds New Alarms

That Other Nuclear Nightmare: North Korea Sounds N...

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Why Abu Dhabi Walked Away from OPEC After Nearly 60 Years

Why Abu Dhabi Walked Away from OPEC After Nearly 6...

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Britain’s Antisemitism Crisis Is Now a National Security Threat

Britain’s Antisemitism Crisis Is Now a National Se...

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Deep in Cartel Country: CIA Deaths Expose Fragile U.S.-Mexico Security Ties

Deep in Cartel Country: CIA Deaths Expose Fragile ...

1 week ago 9

The Houthi Card

The Houthi Card

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Pakistan’s Terror Landscape Continues to Threaten South Asia

Pakistan’s Terror Landscape Continues to Threaten ...

1 week ago 8

From Chernobyl to Ukraine: The Enduring Cost of Kremlin Lies

From Chernobyl to Ukraine: The Enduring Cost of Kr...

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Pyongyang’s Bet: Nuclear Growth and Great Power Support

Pyongyang’s Bet: Nuclear Growth and Great Power Su...

1 week ago 8

Why the Navy’s Next Battleship Faces Major Hurdles

Why the Navy’s Next Battleship Faces Major Hurdles...

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America Is Fighting the Wrong Drone War

America Is Fighting the Wrong Drone War

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The Dangerous Trade of State Secrets

The Dangerous Trade of State Secrets

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Half Measures and Maximum Risk in Iran

Half Measures and Maximum Risk in Iran

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The Pentagon’s $54 Billion Bet on Autonomous Warfare

The Pentagon’s $54 Billion Bet on Autonomous Warfa...

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Anthropic Mythos - We’ve Opened Pandora's Box

Anthropic Mythos - We’ve Opened Pandora's Box

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America’s Cyber Strategy Has a Budget Problem

America’s Cyber Strategy Has a Budget Problem

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How Extremist Groups Are Sharing a Global Media Strategy

How Extremist Groups Are Sharing a Global Media St...

2 weeks ago 5

Pakistan: Broker of Peace While Still at War

Pakistan: Broker of Peace While Still at War

2 weeks ago 8

The Costly Illusion of the Golden Dome

The Costly Illusion of the Golden Dome

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Trump, Iran, and the Stress Test of Western Alliances

Trump, Iran, and the Stress Test of Western Allian...

2 weeks ago 12

An FBI Perspective on FISA Section 702

An FBI Perspective on FISA Section 702

2 weeks ago 13

Why Greenland is the Linchpin of the Golden Dome

Why Greenland is the Linchpin of the Golden Dome

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The Most Dangerous Extremist Movement in America Has No Ideology

The Most Dangerous Extremist Movement in America H...

2 weeks ago 9

The Trump-Xi Summit: A Chance to Change the Global Narrative

The Trump-Xi Summit: A Chance to Change the Global...

2 weeks ago 7

What Iran Is Learning from Russia’s War and Why the U.S. Should Be Concerned

What Iran Is Learning from Russia’s War and Why th...

3 weeks ago 9

Copy of Trump’s Cyber Strategy Is a Strong Playbook, but It’s All in the Execution

Copy of Trump’s Cyber Strategy Is a Strong Playboo...

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Avoiding Another 9/11 and my 3 Key Reasons to Reauthorize Section 702

Avoiding Another 9/11 and my 3 Key Reasons to Reau...

3 weeks ago 8

The Navy is changing the way it does business and its still pretty pricey

The Navy is changing the way it does business and ...

3 weeks ago 9

The Case for Reauthorizing Section 702

The Case for Reauthorizing Section 702

3 weeks ago 5

Is the U.S. lagging when it comes to drone warfare superiority?

Is the U.S. lagging when it comes to drone warfare...

3 weeks ago 11

The Strategic Realignment: Iran, China, and the Great Power Contest

The Strategic Realignment: Iran, China, and the Gr...

3 weeks ago 5

Why Australia's National Spy Museum Is A Strategic Necessity

Why Australia's National Spy Museum Is A Strategic...

3 weeks ago 8

America’s AI Strategy Is Fighting the Last War

America’s AI Strategy Is Fighting the Last War

3 weeks ago 12

America’s Drone Strategy Has a Supply Chain Problem

America’s Drone Strategy Has a Supply Chain Proble...

3 weeks ago 13

Drones Are Changing Warfare And America Isn’t Ready

Drones Are Changing Warfare And America Isn’t Read...

3 weeks ago 15

How the Iran War Is Reordering the World, Second and Third-Order Effects

How the Iran War Is Reordering the World, Second a...

4 weeks ago 11

U.S. Intel’s Sobering Assessment of Iran’s War Resilience

U.S. Intel’s Sobering Assessment of Iran’s War Res...

4 weeks ago 7

Admiral James Stavridis (Ret.)

Admiral James Stavridis (Ret.)

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A Wartime Budget Without an Innovation Strategy

A Wartime Budget Without an Innovation Strategy

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A Declining Demand for Strategic Intelligence? US and Israeli cases

A Declining Demand for Strategic Intelligence? US ...

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Iran War Scorecard Looks Bad for America’s Strategic Interests

Iran War Scorecard Looks Bad for America’s Strateg...

1 month ago 15

While the U.S. Focuses on Iran, Russia and China See Strategic Gain

While the U.S. Focuses on Iran, Russia and China S...

1 month ago 9

New Presidential Executive Order Targets Transnational Cybercrime

New Presidential Executive Order Targets Transnati...

1 month ago 12

Why a War in the Middle East Is Hitting Australians at the Petrol Pump

Why a War in the Middle East Is Hitting Australian...

1 month ago 13

Taking a Stand on Adversaries’ Influence in the Western Hemisphere

Taking a Stand on Adversaries’ Influence in the We...

1 month ago 12

Iran Is Building the Disinformation Architecture of the Future—Right Now

Iran Is Building the Disinformation Architecture o...

1 month ago 14

America’s “Most Dangerous Dependence”: Can the U.S. Win the Critical Minerals Competition?

America’s “Most Dangerous Dependence”: Can the U.S...

1 month ago 16

Iran Exposed a New Reality for U.S. Air Power

Iran Exposed a New Reality for U.S. Air Power

1 month ago 17

How Close the Iran War Came to a Nuclear Disaster

How Close the Iran War Came to a Nuclear Disaster

1 month ago 10

Telling China's Story Well: The PRC's Strategic Narrative as an Instrument of National Power

Telling China's Story Well: The PRC's Strategic Na...

1 month ago 10

The Chalk Mark Still Matters: Russian Espionage Handling in the Modern Era

The Chalk Mark Still Matters: Russian Espionage Ha...

1 month ago 12

Blockade by Permission: How Iran Determines Who Gets Through Hormuz

Blockade by Permission: How Iran Determines Who Ge...

1 month ago 12

Trump’s Cyber Strategy Is a Strong Playbook, but It’s All in the Execution

Trump’s Cyber Strategy Is a Strong Playbook, but I...

1 month ago 10

Why the ‘Day After’ Is The Most Important Day in the Iranian Conflict

Why the ‘Day After’ Is The Most Important Day in t...

1 month ago 10

From Kyiv’s Skies to the Persian Gulf: How Ukraine’s Drone Technology Is Reshaping Global Defense

From Kyiv’s Skies to the Persian Gulf: How Ukraine...

1 month ago 8

Why Hasn’t Iran Buckled Under U.S.-Israeli Pressure?

Why Hasn’t Iran Buckled Under U.S.-Israeli Pressur...

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Romania Pays the Cyber Price for Backing Ukraine. Where is the EU?

Romania Pays the Cyber Price for Backing Ukraine. ...

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Trump Is Getting His Way in Caracas — But It’s Complicated

Trump Is Getting His Way in Caracas — But It’s Com...

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While Washington Looks to Iran, Putin Gains Ground

While Washington Looks to Iran, Putin Gains Ground...

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The Quiet Expansion of Trump’s War on Cartels

The Quiet Expansion of Trump’s War on Cartels

1 month ago 13

National Security Starts at Home — Not on the Battlefield

National Security Starts at Home — Not on the Batt...

1 month ago 10

When Deepfakes Become Doctrine

When Deepfakes Become Doctrine

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NATO’s Fractures Are Not Its End

NATO’s Fractures Are Not Its End

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Zelensky Plays His Hand

Zelensky Plays His Hand

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Iran’s Long Record of Terror and a Long-Delayed Response

Iran’s Long Record of Terror and a Long-Delayed Re...

1 month ago 11

America’s Drone Future

America’s Drone Future

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The Next Battlefield Is Perception, Not Territory

The Next Battlefield Is Perception, Not Territory

1 month ago 11

While the World Watches the Middle East, War Is Brewing in South Asia

While the World Watches the Middle East, War Is Br...

1 month ago 11

China’s Military Purges Were Larger Than We Thought

China’s Military Purges Were Larger Than We Though...

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Down But Not Out: Iran’s Axis of Resistance

Down But Not Out: Iran’s Axis of Resistance

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Why the U.S. Must Build the Ultimate Multi-Modal Foundation Model

Why the U.S. Must Build the Ultimate Multi-Modal F...

1 month ago 11

GPS Denied: Time to Upgrade

GPS Denied: Time to Upgrade

1 month ago 12

America Is Digitally Fragile — and Our Adversaries Know It

America Is Digitally Fragile — and Our Adversaries...

1 month ago 12

At the Center of the World’s Most Dangerous Chokepoint

At the Center of the World’s Most Dangerous Chokep...

1 month ago 13

Inside Trump’s Thinking on the Iran War

Inside Trump’s Thinking on the Iran War

1 month ago 13

Defining Victory in the Iran War

Defining Victory in the Iran War

1 month ago 12

China's Military: Five Lessons from the Iran War

China's Military: Five Lessons from the Iran War

1 month ago 22

How GEOINT Can Sustain US Advantages in Africa

How GEOINT Can Sustain US Advantages in Africa

1 month ago 17

The Future of War Is Now: What Washington Needs to Hear from the Battlefield

The Future of War Is Now: What Washington Needs to...

1 month ago 18

After the War and After Putin: Three Potential Succession Scenarios for Russia’s Modern Tsar

After the War and After Putin: Three Potential Suc...

1 month ago 9

America’s “Exquisite Class” Weapons Shortage

America’s “Exquisite Class” Weapons Shortage

1 month ago 13

The Drone War’s Real Problem Isn’t Technology — It’s Speed

The Drone War’s Real Problem Isn’t Technology — It...

1 month ago 14

Interceptor Math: How Iran’s Drone Swarms Strain U.S. Defenses

Interceptor Math: How Iran’s Drone Swarms Strain U...

1 month ago 17

The War’s Next Phase: Five Indicators That Matter Most

The War’s Next Phase: Five Indicators That Matter ...

1 month ago 13

Cheap Drones, Expensive Consequences: The New Economics of War

Cheap Drones, Expensive Consequences: The New Econ...

1 month ago 13

Iran: War, the Abraham Accords, and the Psychology of Its Leadership

Iran: War, the Abraham Accords, and the Psychology...

2 months ago 19

A Quiet Peace in the Caucasus Could Change the Balance of Power

A Quiet Peace in the Caucasus Could Change the Bal...

2 months ago 15

Nuclear Expansion and Conditional Diplomacy: North Korea’s New Strategy

Nuclear Expansion and Conditional Diplomacy: North...

2 months ago 12

The Constitutional and Strategic Fallout of Trump’s Strike on Iran

The Constitutional and Strategic Fallout of Trump’...

2 months ago 12

The Hormuz Standoff: Global Energy Flow Severs After 'Epic Fury' Strikes

The Hormuz Standoff: Global Energy Flow Severs Aft...

2 months ago 17

After the Strikes: Is Iran on the Brink?

After the Strikes: Is Iran on the Brink?

2 months ago 13

Breaking Down our "Red October" Moment for AI

Breaking Down our "Red October" Moment for AI

2 months ago 16

Purpose-Built or Perilous: Congress Faces a Critical FBI Headquarters Decision

Purpose-Built or Perilous: Congress Faces a Critic...

2 months ago 21

What the Latest Policy and Tech Shifts Mean for National Security

What the Latest Policy and Tech Shifts Mean for Na...

2 months ago 11

Where crime and terror meet: Australia’s illicit tobacco market

Where crime and terror meet: Australia’s illicit t...

2 months ago 8

Revisionist History – Aliens, Secrets and Conspiracies

Revisionist History – Aliens, Secrets and Conspira...

2 months ago 16

Why Russia’s War Effort Signals Strategic Decline

Why Russia’s War Effort Signals Strategic Decline

2 months ago 21

Building the Talent Pipeline for America’s Security Future

Building the Talent Pipeline for America’s Securit...

2 months ago 15

The Cognitive Battlefield is Now Decisive Terrain

The Cognitive Battlefield is Now Decisive Terrain

2 months ago 18

Killing Mencho

Killing Mencho

2 months ago 11

Tracing the Evolution of Russian Hybrid Warfare

Tracing the Evolution of Russian Hybrid Warfare

2 months ago 15

Evelyn Farkas on Alliances, Ukraine, and China’s Growing Challenge

Evelyn Farkas on Alliances, Ukraine, and China’s G...

2 months ago 15

Washington’s Venezuelan Gamble: The Old Guard’s Continued Grip on Power

Washington’s Venezuelan Gamble: The Old Guard’s Co...

2 months ago 14

Defending the Homeland: Pentagon Shifts Strategy on Drone Threats

Defending the Homeland: Pentagon Shifts Strategy o...

2 months ago 15

How Cuba's Infrastructure Crisis Is Opening the Door to Foreign Intelligence Networks

How Cuba's Infrastructure Crisis Is Opening the Do...

2 months ago 19

Media Literacy Isn’t Enough Anymore

Media Literacy Isn’t Enough Anymore

2 months ago 9

From the Monroe Doctrine to Maduro: The Precedent Problem in U.S.

From the Monroe Doctrine to Maduro: The Precedent ...

2 months ago 19

Inside the High-Stakes U.S. Pressure Campaign on Iran

Inside the High-Stakes U.S. Pressure Campaign on I...

2 months ago 13

Confidence, Interoperability, and the Limits of U.S. Decision Systems

Confidence, Interoperability, and the Limits of U....

2 months ago 15

Autonomy on the Battlefield

Autonomy on the Battlefield

2 months ago 14

Standing Up to a Spy: My Run-In with Aldrich Ames

Standing Up to a Spy: My Run-In with Aldrich Ames

2 months ago 17

Russia’s Foreign Fighter Pipeline: How Moscow Exploits Global Poverty to Feed Ukraine’s Frontlines

Russia’s Foreign Fighter Pipeline: How Moscow Expl...

2 months ago 12

After New START: America Weighs a New Nuclear Strategy

After New START: America Weighs a New Nuclear Stra...

2 months ago 16

The Former Head of NSA on the Future of U.S. Cybersecurity

The Former Head of NSA on the Future of U.S. Cyber...

2 months ago 11

Xi Jinping Tightens Grip as China’s Military Purge Deepens

Xi Jinping Tightens Grip as China’s Military Purge...

2 months ago 10

From Secrets to Sensors: Why Open Source Data Must Drive Modern Intelligence

From Secrets to Sensors: Why Open Source Data Must...

2 months ago 13

The Kremlin Files: Russian Double Agents and Operational Games

The Kremlin Files: Russian Double Agents and Opera...

3 months ago 15

EU Takes Aim at Tehran: IRGC Terror Listing Opens New Front in Europe’s Iran Policy

EU Takes Aim at Tehran: IRGC Terror Listing Opens ...

3 months ago 12

Should Western Tech Giants Partner With Pro-Hamas Network Al Jazeera?

Should Western Tech Giants Partner With Pro-Hamas ...

3 months ago 12

Inside the $35 Billion Plan to Track Hypersonic Missiles from Space

Inside the $35 Billion Plan to Track Hypersonic Mi...

3 months ago 15

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

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

3 months ago 16

Greenland’s Worth a Fight and Russia’s Trying to Start One

Greenland’s Worth a Fight and Russia’s Trying to S...

3 months ago 18

Export Controls Backfire: The China Innovation Paradox

Export Controls Backfire: The China Innovation Par...

3 months ago 12

The Rise of China's Strategic Soft Power and its Global Impact

The Rise of China's Strategic Soft Power and its G...

3 months ago 13

America’s Intelligence Satellites are Proliferating: Their Protection is Not, With Exceptions

America’s Intelligence Satellites are Proliferatin...

3 months ago 14

The 2026 National Defense Strategy: No Surprises but Plenty of Mandate

The 2026 National Defense Strategy: No Surprises b...

3 months ago 18

China’s Stunning Military Purge – and What It Means For Taiwan

China’s Stunning Military Purge – and What It Mean...

3 months ago 15

Signs of Trouble from Venezuela's Regime Could Be Subtle at First

Signs of Trouble from Venezuela's Regime Could Be ...

3 months ago 12

Inside Trump’s New ‘Board of Peace’

Inside Trump’s New ‘Board of Peace’

3 months ago 15

Russia’s War Economy Lifeline: Inside the Sanctions Evasion Network

Russia’s War Economy Lifeline: Inside the Sanction...

3 months ago 12

They're Coming for Our Kids: How Extremists Target Children Online

They're Coming for Our Kids: How Extremists Target...

3 months ago 13

The Next FATF Test: Can the West Demand Results from Pakistan?

The Next FATF Test: Can the West Demand Results fr...

3 months ago 14

Russia is Targeting Civilians in Ukraine

Russia is Targeting Civilians in Ukraine

3 months ago 19

Loosening the Gordian Knot of Global Terrorism: Why Legitimacy Must Anchor a Counterterrorism Strategy

Loosening the Gordian Knot of Global Terrorism: Wh...

3 months ago 15

Iran at the Breaking Point: How Afghanistan and Iraq Still Inform U.S. Strategy

Iran at the Breaking Point: How Afghanistan and Ir...

3 months ago 14

The Kremlin Files: Russia’s Way to the Gray Zone

The Kremlin Files: Russia’s Way to the Gray Zone

3 months ago 12

The Long Arc Of American Power

The Long Arc Of American Power

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New Reports Reveal Years of Unaddressed Osprey Safety Risks

New Reports Reveal Years of Unaddressed Osprey Saf...

3 months ago 10

The Coast Guard's Mission in the Gray Zone

The Coast Guard's Mission in the Gray Zone

3 months ago 11

The Country’s First ‘Cognitive Advantage’ Chief: Influence Is the New Battlefield

The Country’s First ‘Cognitive Advantage’ Chief: I...

3 months ago 15

What U.S. – China Cooperation Means for the World

What U.S. – China Cooperation Means for the World

3 months ago 16

Remembering Aldrich Ames and the Lives He Destroyed

Remembering Aldrich Ames and the Lives He Destroye...

3 months ago 15

Ruling Venezuela with a 2,000 Mile Hammer is Not Likely to End Well

Ruling Venezuela with a 2,000 Mile Hammer is Not L...

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Russia Signals Minimal Desire for Peace

Russia Signals Minimal Desire for Peace

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Why Labeling Muslim Brotherhood “Chapters” as Terrorist Groups Is Problematic

Why Labeling Muslim Brotherhood “Chapters” as Terr...

3 months ago 14

Uber Krysha: How Russia Turns Crime into Power—and Poison

Uber Krysha: How Russia Turns Crime into Power—and...

3 months ago 18

Iran’s Crumbling Revolutionary Facade: How Today’s Protests Could Reshape the Region in 2026

Iran’s Crumbling Revolutionary Facade: How Today’s...

3 months ago 10

Trump’s Power Doctrine: A $1.5 Trillion Military, Greenland Ambitions, and a World Ruled by Force

Trump’s Power Doctrine: A $1.5 Trillion Military, ...

3 months ago 14

Now Comes the Hard Part in Venezuela

Now Comes the Hard Part in Venezuela

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Maduro and Noriega: Assessing the Analogies

Maduro and Noriega: Assessing the Analogies

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How China Built AI Dominance on Stolen American Silicon

How China Built AI Dominance on Stolen American Si...

3 months ago 14

After Maduro’s Removal, the U.S. Faces Its Hardest Test Yet in Venezuela

After Maduro’s Removal, the U.S. Faces Its Hardest...

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Agentic AI and the “Human-in-the-Loop” Luxury in Modern Defense

Agentic AI and the “Human-in-the-Loop” Luxury in M...

3 months ago 13

The Kremlin Files: Russia, the Modern Surveillance State

The Kremlin Files: Russia, the Modern Surveillance...

3 months ago 15

Iran’s Supreme Leader Should Listen to the People

Iran’s Supreme Leader Should Listen to the People

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Deepfakes and the War on Trust

Deepfakes and the War on Trust

9 months ago 15

Sabotage Without Warning: Why the Gray Zone Could Be America’s Biggest Blind Spot

Sabotage Without Warning: Why the Gray Zone Could...

9 months ago 21

China and Russia: True Partnership or an Alliance on Borrowed Time?

China and Russia: True Partnership or an Alliance ...

9 months ago 12

Two Existential Threats: CIA’s Reputation vs. Democracy’s Survival

Two Existential Threats: CIA’s Reputation vs. Demo...

9 months ago 12

Guanxi-Warfare: How the U.S. Can Exploit China’s Disposable Alliances

Guanxi-Warfare: How the U.S. Can Exploit China’s D...

9 months ago 12

Golden Dome: A Multi-Billion Dollar Space Gamble

Golden Dome: A Multi-Billion Dollar Space Gamble

9 months ago 17

Regime Change in Iran: Complexities and Limits

Regime Change in Iran: Complexities and Limits

9 months ago 23

Can the U.S. Fix a Broken System of Acquiring Weapons?

Can the U.S. Fix a Broken System of Acquiring Weap...

9 months ago 17

Operation Midnight and the President's War Powers

Operation Midnight and the President's War Powers

9 months ago 19

To Counter Xi, President Trump Needs a New ‘Holy Alliance’

To Counter Xi, President Trump Needs a New ‘Holy A...

9 months ago 21

Expert Q&A: The Major African Terror Group You’ve Probably Never Heard Of

Expert Q&A: The Major African Terror Group You’ve ...

9 months ago 20

The Huawei Dilemma: Why Europe Needs Strong Intelligence Guardrails

The Huawei Dilemma: Why Europe Needs Strong Intell...

9 months ago 21

China's Disinformation Offensive in Taiwan

China's Disinformation Offensive in Taiwan

9 months ago 19

Trapped by His Own Lies: Putin’s Echo Chamber Backfires—Again

Trapped by His Own Lies: Putin’s Echo Chamber Back...

9 months ago 14

Third-Country Deportations in Legal Limbo Under Trump

Third-Country Deportations in Legal Limbo Under Tr...

9 months ago 16

America’s Moonshot Moment in AI

America’s Moonshot Moment in AI

9 months ago 20

Experts Warn of Insurgents' Paradise in West Africa

Experts Warn of Insurgents' Paradise in West Afric...

9 months ago 14

Expert Q&A: Putin Overplayed His Hand with Trump on Ukraine

Expert Q&A: Putin Overplayed His Hand with Trump o...

9 months ago 15

Ukraine’s Defense may hinge on Offensive Operations

Ukraine’s Defense may hinge on Offensive Operation...

9 months ago 19

CIA's Latest Existential Challenge

CIA's Latest Existential Challenge

9 months ago 19

China Can Do More to Improve Relations with the U.S.

China Can Do More to Improve Relations with the U....

9 months ago 20