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Around the Table with Abi Olvera
Commentary
Around the Table is a three-question interview series from the Make Room email newsletter. Each edition features a conversation with a peer in the national security community ...
By Abi Olvera
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Turkey’s Democracy Is Down but Not Out
Commentary
Turkey has a long way to go before it can be considered a liberal democratic country, but this election signals that there are pockets of resilience....
By Kate Johnston & Gibbs McKinley
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A Blueprint for a Functional China-US Working Group on AI
Commentary
Late last year U.S. President Joe Biden and China’s leader Xi Jinping met in San Francisco in an attempt to restabilize the relationship after a troubled year. The meeting end...
By Michael Depp
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The Axis of Upheaval
Commentary
The West has been too quick to dismiss the coordination among China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia....
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor & Richard Fontaine
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The Section 702 economic risks that few are talking about
Commentary
702 is vital to protecting the U.S. homeland and our allies from foreign threats....
By Daniel Silverberg & Elena McGovern
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Sharper: NATO 75
Commentary
From July 9–11, NATO leaders from across the Atlantic will gather in Washington, DC for the 2024 NATO Summit, which marks the 75th anniversary of the alliance. This meeting wi...
By Anna Pederson, Anna Avanesyan & Charles Horn
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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”
Commentary
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
Commentary
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
Commentary
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?
Commentary
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
Commentary
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
Commentary
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
Commentary
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
