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America’s Eroding Airpower
Commentary
To have a chance at success, the United States would need more low-end drones and missiles that can provide it with mass....
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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The United States Must Avoid AI’s Chernobyl Moment
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The United States cannot let speculative fears trigger heavy-handed regulations that would cripple U.S. AI innovation....
By Janet Egan
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Hegseth Brings the Culture War to Combat
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The fundamental challenge of military leadership lies in creating cohesive teams that can work together in an environment of mortal risk and, when called upon to do so, use le...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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Around the Table with Christina Powell
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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: The Transatlantic Relationship
Commentary
The last few weeks have seen dramatic developments in the transatlantic relationship between the United States and its European allies. President Trump’s phone call with Vladi...
By Kate Johnston & Charles Horn
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Friends with Benefits: How Russia’s Opportunistic Partnerships Stymie Nonproliferation Efforts
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To respond to Russia’s increasing disregard for the nonproliferation regime, the United States and its allies must raise the costs of violation....
By Nicholas Lokker
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Going it Alone
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The penalties were not designed to change behavior but to downsize China’s role in the world economy....
By Edward Fishman
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How America Wasted Its Most Powerful Economic Weapon
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As Donald Trump embarks on his much-anticipated peace negotiations, they will provide important leverage—Putin will be desperate to recover them, while Ukrainian President Vol...
By Edward Fishman
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Build Allied AI or Risk Fighting Alone
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Amid the hype about artificial intelligence (AI) and autonomous systems, militaries around the world are developing, experimenting with, and integrating these tools into every...
By Becca Wasser & Josh Wallin
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As Trump Reshapes AI Policy, Here’s How He Could Protect America’s AI Advantage
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The nation that solidifies its AI advantage will shape the trajectory of the most transformative technology of our era....
By Janet Egan, Paul Scharre & Vivek Chilukuri
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Ukraine Symposium – The Continuing Autonomous Arms Race
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This war-powered technology race does not appear to be losing steam, and what happens on the battlefields of Ukraine can potentially define how belligerents use military auton...
By Samuel Bendett
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Firing Civil Servants and Dismantling Government Departments Is How Aspiring Strongmen Consolidate Personal Power – Lessons from Around the Globe
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Bureaucracies, in this way, are an important part of democracy that constrain executive behavior....
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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The Superpower Has Left the Building: Munich 2025
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Behind the frustration and fears of abandonment lies a major question: What will — what can — Europe do about it?...
By Richard Fontaine
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Gaza After Hamas
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To permanently remove Hamas from power, the United States must work alongside its Arab and Israeli partners to support the PA’s return to Gaza....
By Delaney Soliday
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Beyond DeepSeek: How China’s AI Ecosystem Fuels Breakthroughs
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While the United States should not mimic China’s state-backed funding model, it also can’t leave AI’s future to the market alone....
By Ruby Scanlon
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France Pursues an AI “Third Way”
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This AI third way is not AI sovereignty in a traditional sense, which at a high level is a nation’s policy of placing the development, deployment, and control of AI models, in...
By Pablo Chavez
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How Can We Develop AI That Helps, Rather Than Harms, People?
Commentary
In every technological revolution, we face a choice: build for freedom or watch as others build for control. With AI the stakes couldn’t be higher. It already mediates 20 per ...
By Brendan McCord
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Trump and Erdogan Have The Chance To Reset U.S.-Turkey Relations
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Turkey’s role as a middle power becomes more valuable in a shifting world order....
By Gibbs McKinley & Kate Johnston
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A World Safe for Prosperity
Commentary
U.S. President Donald Trump jolted the global economy this past weekend when he announced sweeping tariffs on Canada, China, and Mexico, the United States’ three largest tradi...
By Geoffrey Gertz & Emily Kilcrease
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Sharper: Iran and the Axis of Upheaval
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Despite suffering geopolitical setbacks since Hamas’s October 7 attacks on Israel, a potentially nuclear Iran continues to pose a significant threat to U.S. and allied interes...
By Delaney Soliday & Charles Horn
