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Around the Table with Evan Gaul
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 ...
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There Are No Magic Beans: Easy Options to Deter China Militarily Do Not Exist
The only assured way to deter an attack on Taiwan is to have sufficient survivable forces and munitions properly postured before a Chinese attack....
By Tom Shugart
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Sharper: Axis of Upheaval
A loose but growing coalition between Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea demonstrates that their combined strategic interests have the potential to pose significant economic...
By Anna Pederson
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Regulating Artificial Intelligence Must Not Undermine NIST’s Integrity
A strong NIST will continue to help build standards that are adopted globally and lay the foundation for further American AI innovation and dissemination....
By Keegan McBride
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How Thailand’s political turmoil complicates ties with the US
Thailand has sought to move closer to China in multiple domains – in addition to courting Chinese investment and tourism, Bangkok has also increased military ties between the ...
By Nathaniel Schochet
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The United States Should Not Ignore Kuwait’s Democratic Backslide
In May, Meshal al-Ahmad al-Jaber Al Sabah, the emir of Kuwait, suspended the country’s National Assembly. This was a striking move against one of the more powerful legislative...
By Aaron Arnett
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The Will and the Power: China’s Plan to Undermine Pax Americana
From Washington’s Farewell Address to Biden’s national security strategy, the core U.S. national interest, unsurprisingly, has not changed: to ensure the fundamental security ...
By Richard Fontaine & Robert Blackwill
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Preparing for the Possibility of a Draft without Panic
Conscription has never had a political constituency in Congress. It remains a serious, costly, and potentially deadly tool meant to protect Americans from the extreme conseque...
By Taren Sylvester & Katherine L. Kuzminski
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Comments on Provisions Pertaining to U.S. Investments in Certain National Security Technologies and Products in Countries of Concern
Submitted by: Sarah Bauerle Danzman (Associate Professor, Indiana University Bloomington; Non-Resident Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council), Tim Fist (Senior Technology Fellow, In...
By Emily Kilcrease, Geoffrey Gertz, Tim Fist, Sarah Bauerle Danzman & Ngor Luong
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Into the unknown: Managing conventional and nuclear uncertainty in the Indo-Pacific
Rather than dismiss, ignore, or overlook conventional-nuclear integration discussions, US operational leaders must understand that China’s nuclear future is dangerous and unce...
By Andrew Metrick & Philip Sheers
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Making an Iranian attack Tehran’s worst option
The Supreme Leader will be less likely to launch a major missile attack if he believes the US military will preemptively strike to defang it....
By Jonathan Lord
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The 1960s Novella That Got AI (Mostly) Right
A secret military project. A vast artificial mind. Questions of consciousness. These form the premise of Dino Buzzati’s The Singularity, originally published in 1960 at the da...
By Paul Scharre
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The Military Needs to Make Human-Performance Optimization Part of Daily Ops
Ukraine’s fierce defense against Russia’s better-on-paper invasion force underscores—once again—how soldiers represent human weapons systems, bringing cognitive, physical, and...
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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The Rise and Fall of the Economic Pivot to Asia
The notion of Chinese political liberalization through trade and globalization was abandoned years ago....
By Richard Fontaine & Robert Blackwill
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Sharper: Economic Security
U.S. international economic policy now centers squarely on economic security objectives, as a result of geopolitical competition with China, post-pandemic awareness of the fra...
By Anna Pederson & Emily Kilcrease
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Around the Table with Alyse LaVoie
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 ...
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Sharper: NATO Summit
The 75th NATO Summit was held in Washington DC, last week, and brought together leaders and governments to discuss pressing issues facing the world's oldest alliance. A bridge...
By Anna Pederson
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For Putin, the EU Is a Bigger Threat Than NATO
Russia, by aiming to prevent the EU’s enlargement and impose its own control over Ukraine, Moldova, and Georgia, is on a campaign to reassert its imperial idea in Europe....
By Nicholas Lokker & Kate Johnston
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NATO and the EU Need to Get Real on Ukrainian Membership
At NATO’s landmark 75th anniversary summit in Washington, a key issue on the agenda will be the nature of the alliance’s commitment to Ukraine’s future membership. Following v...
By Nicholas Lokker
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Around the Table with Taren Sylvester
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 ...