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Proxy battles: Iraq, Iran, and the turmoil in the Middle East
Commentary
Since Hamas’s attacks sparked the war in Gaza on 7 October 2023, a dangerous cycle of escalation has played out across the Middle East. Iran and its proxies – such as the Hout...
By Hamzeh Hadad
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How DOD missed its opportunity to counter extremism in the ranks
Commentary
It is clear that extremism in the ranks still poses a challenge, and we are in desperate need of an administrative nerve center capable of addressing it....
By Samantha Olson
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Stock Buybacks in Defense: What Drives Them, and How That Can Change?
Commentary
Lack of capital is not a problem hindering investment at the largest defense primes. The issue revolves around the capital allocation decision....
By Mikhail Grinberg, Jerry McGinn & Lloyd Everhart
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Countering China’s Influence in Myanmar
Commentary
The United States must act now to capitalize on the momentum of the EAOs, taking immediate action to help shore up their efforts against the Junta....
By Nathaniel Schochet
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Response to NTIA Request for Comment: “Dual Use Foundation Artificial Intelligence Models with Widely Available Model Weights”
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In February 2024, the Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) issued a Request for Comment (RFC) on the implications of “ope...
By Caleb Withers
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Sharper: Maritime Security
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The importance of securing the maritime domain is rapidly increasing. From the South China Sea to the Red Sea, the U.S. and its allies are experiencing escalating challenges t...
By Anna Pederson & Charles Horn
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Innovation Adoption for All: Scaling across Department of Defense
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The Department of Defense does act quickly when properly motivated and catalyzed by effective leadership....
By Robert O. Work, Michael Brown & Ellen Lord
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Will France Be the AI Hub of Continental Europe?
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It is uncertain whether France’s achievement as the AI hub of continental Europe would make it one of the prominent global AI centers, not simply a major regional player....
By Noah Greene
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Compiling Advantage: Unlocking the Competitive Power of Software Adaptability
Commentary
To fall short now would not be just a bureaucratic debacle. It would pose an imminent threat to the US military’s ability to deter, fight, and win....
By Ellen Lord
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Around the Table with Ayla Francis
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Ayla Francis is a Senior Advisor for policy & government relations at Humanity United. The views expressed are those of the author and do not reflect the position of Human...
By Ayla Francis
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A World Full of Missiles
Commentary
If the United States wants to maintain its role as the international security guarantor in today’s missile age, it must reckon with this growing cost....
By Andrew Metrick
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Don’t Betray the Women of Afghanistan
Commentary
Normalizing relations with the Taliban before they reverse their anti-women policies would amount to pretending as if those two decades of progress never happened....
By Lisa Curtis & Hadeia Amiry
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To Govern AI, We Must Govern Compute
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Computing power—compute, for short—is a key driver of artificial intelligence (AI) progress. Over the past 13 years, the amount of compute used to train leading AI systems has...
By Lennart Heim, Markus Anderljung & Haydn Belfield
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The Next Step in Military AI Multilateralism
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As part of the deluge of new artificial intelligence (AI) policy documents surrounding the AI Safety Summit in November 2023, the United States released a long-awaited update ...
By Michael Depp
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It’s time for Congress to commit to better U.S.-EU relations
Commentary
The United States and European Union can only tackle their joint challenges through greater dialogue....
By Nicholas Lokker & Jason C. Moyer
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Sharper: Regulating Technology
Commentary
The pace of technological change presents both immense opportunity for private industry and complex challenges for national security. These technologies, including artificial ...
By Anna Pederson & Julia Arnold
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Congress Can Help Ukraine With Confiscated Iranian Weapons
Commentary
Sending more Iranian weapons to Ukraine would be an effective complement to a larger aid effort at almost no additional cost to the U.S. taxpayer....
By Jonathan Lord & Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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A New Approach to Sanctions Is Pushing Up Energy Prices and Crimping Russia’s Revenue
Commentary
Heightened U.S. sanctions enforcement has also raised the importance of China as the buyer of last resort for Russia....
By Rachel Ziemba
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Is Iraqi Federalism Under Threat
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It is inevitable that Baghdad will get caught up in a contest between the KDP and PUK....
By Hamzeh Hadad
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Indo-Pacific nations need to put more focus on cybersecurity
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Recent developments point to a troubling reality: China is increasingly embracing cyberattacks as a geopolitical weapon. Last month, Japanese officials disclosed that Chinese ...
By Vivek Chilukuri
