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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
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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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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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?
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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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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
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Indo-Pacific Stability Depends on Eastern Africa’s Prosperity
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The Strait of Malacca, Taiwan, and the South China Sea dominate the Asian debate. However, chokepoints further from home could prove similarly devastating....
By Derek Grossman
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Manufacturing a New National Security
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Introduction The United States sits atop the world’s pedestal of military superpowers—particularly when it comes to developing and employing the most sophisticated technology—...
By James Swartout & Nick Doucette
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Technology & National Security
Why Empowering Private Companies to Fight Cybercrime Had to HappenThere is no question that the government needs to adapt to the reality of the evolving civilianization of the security environment. It should do so boldly, quickly, but carefu...
By Gary Corn
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The Impossible Middle East
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The Middle East today has some thinking to do. It will need to draw up new ways to preserve its wealth, to pursue greater self-sufficiency, and to diversify—and even own—its s...
By Becca Wasser
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We Cannot Let the Lebanon-Israel Breakthrough Slip Away
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The US has helped to open a window. For the sake of Lebanon, Israel and the wider region, they must not allow it to close....
By Rachel Brandenburg
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Technology & National Security
Beneath the Surface: Overlooked Cyber Security ThreatsThis article was originally published in War on the Rocks. Cyber security remains a persistent concern for public and private sector organizations alike. Given the potential i...
By Caleb Withers
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From Ukraine to Iran, Attacks on Civilian Sites Put Us All at Risk
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If more and more countries demonstrate a willingness to break these norms, their power will continue to diminish, and Russia may abandon any semblance of restraint it still re...
By Nicholas Lokker
