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Explainer: How the Trump Administration is Aiming to ‘Modernize’ U.S. SanctionsTo successfully engage the private sector, civil society, and foreign governments, the administration needs to articulate its sanctions modernization efforts in greater detail...
By Alex Zerden
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Commentary
National Security Human Capital
Myths of Battlefield Triumph Are Destroying the U.S. MilitaryIt is the narrative of triumph forsaken: The United States can still defeat Iran if only it has the will and endurance....
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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Commentary
Indo-Pacific Security / Transatlantic Security / Middle East Security
The Axis of Upheaval Goes to WarThey are fine-tuning their cooperation to make their partners more resilient—and more dangerous to the United States—while limiting costs and risks....
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor & Richard Fontaine
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Commentary
Technology & National Security
Sharper: Countering Cyber ThreatsAdvanced AI and quantum capabilities are increasing the cyber threat to critical systems, making the development of proper resilience and responses a national security imperat...
By Charles Horn & Cadence Barker
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How Much More Trump Trouble Can Indonesia’s Prabowo Take?
Commentary
This article was originally published in Foreign Policy. That Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto skipped the annual inaugural proceedings of the U.N. General Assembly (UNGA...
By Derek Grossman
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How to Avoid Disaster in the Next Iran War
Commentary
Should full-scale fighting resume against a reconstituted Iran in the near term, coalition forces will run out of Patriot, THAAD, and Standard Missile interceptors in days, no...
By Stacie Pettyjohn & Philip Sheers
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Sea Drones a Taiwan Game Changer
Commentary
This article was originally published in the Taipei Times. China prefers to win without firing a shot in its bid to strangle Taiwan’s strategic autonomy. Chinese military str...
By Trey Meeks
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The Trump-Xi Summit Leaves Taiwan in Limbo
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Xi used the summit to mark the change Beijing wants. Trump did not publicly grant it. Whether he can keep negotiating with Xi while making Taiwan harder to conquer is now the ...
By Derek Grossman
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Sharper | Securing America’s Defense Industrial Base
Commentary
Six months of war with Iran has depleted America’s munitions capacity, leaving stockpiles of interceptors and precision weapons dangerously low and demand above the replacemen...
By Cadence Barker & Charles Horn
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Commentary
Technology & National Security
Mr. Xi Goes to Washington: An Opportunity for U.S.-China AI AssuranceArtificial intelligence is advancing too rapidly, and its ramifications too consequential, for either country to believe that competition alone is a strategy....
By Lt. Gen. Jack Shanahan
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A $5,000 Bike Shows Why It’s Hard to Build in America
Commentary
Decades of global economic integration mean that products built in the US, from cars to advanced battery packs, typically contain foreign-made parts. Manufacturers didn’t cons...
By Chris Kennedy
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Japan’s New CIA Could Be Takaichi’s Trump Card
Commentary
Intelligence reform may generate fewer headlines than higher defense spending, new missiles, or arms deals, but it represents another consequential way Tokyo is assuming great...
By Derek Grossman
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America’s Secret Weapon in the Nuclear Race
Commentary
The choice is between an integrated American system that combines public missions with private capital and a fragmented one facing off against China’s coordinated buildup....
By David Feith
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What Will the Latest Trump-Xi Summit Bring? Four Experts Set the Stakes.
Commentary
Both leaders want a big show, and their teams are going through the motions of staging one....
By Liza Tobin
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Defense Industrial Base Requires Energy Security
Commentary
Those who won the world wars had enough power. Those who lost did not....
By Will Rogers
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Iran Blockade Costs Are Draining America’s Global Military Power
Commentary
The US has poured billions of dollars into developing advanced weapons for a potential conflict with China. Now the Iran war has consumed a huge chunk of these high-tech arms,...
By Becca Wasser
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What America’s Adversaries and Allies Hope to Gain at the U.N. General Assembly
Commentary
This article was originally published in War on the Rocks. This year’s U.N. General Assembly officially opened on Tuesday, Sept. 8. The annual gathering gives diplomats and le...
By Nicholas Lokker
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How China Is Stealing America’s AI
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Sometimes the fingerprints are obvious: Kimi K3 has identified itself as “Claude,” Anthropic’s model; it was trained on so much of its rival’s output that it mistakes itself f...
By Liza Tobin
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Where Do We Go from Here?
Commentary
Introduction Over the past nine months, The New American Defense Industrial Base essay series has brought together a wide range of participants to deliver a variety of views o...
By Susanna V. Blume
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Commentary
Indo-Pacific Security / Technology & National Security
Sharper: China's AI RiseArtificial intelligence has become a strategic priority for Beijing and Washington, yet both countries continue to pursue dramatically different strategies in their bid for gl...
By Charles Horn & Cadence Barker
