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Introducing ‘The China Intelligence’
Everyone needs to understand China better. Open-source intelligence can help.
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Army Generals Are Not Prepared for the Future
Service leaders love to tout innovation, but can they make the changes necessary to succeed?
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The F-35’s Painful Lessons Must Inform Future Programs
Congress and the Pentagon must question dubious technical requirements, rosy buy-in costs, and optimistic schedule promises.
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Is DarkSide Really Sorry? Is It Even DarkSide?
Deciphering the mysterious apology of the mysterious group that shut down a major U.S. pipeline.
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Blinken’s Arctic Opportunities
The secretary of state can make real diplomatic progress on several key areas.
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Détente with Iran Could Unlock a Foreign Policy Gold Mine
Bringing Tehran back into the diplomatic fold would foster other progress.
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The ‘Rule of Thirds’ Is Bunk
The military services’ shares of overall defense spending have always fluctuated with strategy and need.
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Should We Care About That Letter?
Retired generals and admirals are, first and foremost, retirees.
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The 2018 Strategy Is Unworkable. We Need a Fundamental Defense Rethink
We can model our efforts to link long-term defense priorities and resourcing on a post-Cold War review.
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Shake Off the Pentagon's Industrial-Age Bureaucracy
Five disciplines and five initiatives can help the U.S. military better adapt to 21st-century threats.
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Why National Cyber Defense Is a ‘Wicked’ Problem
Vulnerable supply chains, sloppy security, and a talent shortage made events like the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack and the SolarWinds hack all but inevitable.
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When and Why China Might—or Might Not—Attack Taiwan
U.S. policymakers can only guess at what’s driving Beijing, but that doesn’t mean there’s nothing they can do about it.
Science & Tech
To Understand 'Zero Trust,' Look to the Roman Empire
When the Romans realized that they could no longer prevent border incursions, they developed methods of fighting the attackers within.
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Narcissism and National Security
A century ago, the doings of ordinary citizens barely mattered to national security. Today, they matter a great deal more.
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The US Needs to Impose Costs on China for Its Economic Warfare
The linchpin of a more effective deterrence is developing a more effective way to hurt the Chinese Communist Party if it will not stop hurting the United States.
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America Needs Competitive Intelligence
Agencies ought to be thinking about how to bring U.S. capabilities to bear on adversaries’ vulnerabilities, in competition as well as in conflict.
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