Business

Don’t Sell F-35 To Turkey If It Buys Russian SAMs: Top NATO General

Gen. Scaparrotti, who also leads U.S. European Command, also wants more naval forces at his disposal.

Science & Tech

Russia’s New ‘AI Supercomputer’ Runs on Western Technology

The 1-petaflop Zhores is built on California circuitry, and it’s hardly alone.

Ideas

Ep. 39: What comes after Putin? Assessing the future of US-Russian relations

This week we take a look at Russia and the future of the U.S.-Russian relationship.

Science & Tech

Russia’s Pistol-Packing Robot Is Scrambling for Parts

The program’s foreign suppliers stopped shipping components after gunfire videos went viral.

Science & Tech

Top Nuke General: Russia Is Exploiting Gaps In Key Arms-Control Treaty

The leader of U.S. Strategic Command sees New START as vital, flawed, and in danger.

Science & Tech

Russian Attacks Hit US-European Think Tank Emails, Says Microsoft

The same group that hit the DNC recently targeted prominent think tanks, including one election-monitoring organization

Ideas

Russia Plans More Arctic UAVs

Moscow’s equivalent of DARPA wants a cold-weather drone that can stay aloft for four days.

Science & Tech

You Have 19 Minutes to React If the Russians Hack Your Network

After Moscow's hackers breach one PC, that network's defenders have less than a half-hour to prevent wider data theft or destruction, a new report finds.

Policy

The Senate’s Russia Probe Is Facing a Reckoning

Meanwhile, the Democratic-led House committee is gearing up for a reinvigorated inquiry.

Ideas

Two Ideas That Might Stop a Post-INF Arms Race, and One That Won’t

Discard the pipe dream of INF-plus-China. Focus instead on keeping new missiles too far away to strike.

Ideas

Russian-Style Kleptocracy Is Infiltrating America

When the U.S.S.R. collapsed, Washington bet on the global spread of democratic capitalist values—and lost.

Threats

Russia Is Attacking the US System From Within

A new filing by Special Counsel Robert Mueller shows how Russia uses the federal courts to go after its adversaries.

Science & Tech

Putin Orders Up a National AI Strategy

The Jan. 15 instruction follows a year of Russian efforts to better unify public and private AI research.

Threats

Intelligence Chiefs Diverge From Trump On Main Threats to US

The things that worry America’s intelligence community can’t be stopped by a wall.

Threats

US and Russia Regard Each Other Warily in the Baltic and Black Seas

An uptick in Russian naval activity and U.S. freedom-of-navigation ops mean more tension in 2019.

Threats

Russia, China Will Exploit West’s ‘Isolationist Tendencies,’ Says New Intel Strategy

The intelligence community’s warning arrived as the House rebuked President Trump for his attacks on NATO.

Ideas

How to Defeat Hybrid Warfare Before It Starts

A well-governed society is a resilient society.

Ideas

The Shutdown Is Great News for Russia

The competition of democracy versus dictatorship is to a degree a contest of narratives.

Ideas

Ep. 36: British defense strategy with UK MoD’s Will Jessett

Welcome to our podcast about the news, strategy, tech, and business trends defining the future of national security.

Ideas

Donald Trump's Pattern of Deference to the Kremlin Is Clear

Any specific incident might be explained away fairly easily. As a pattern, they’re too weird to dismiss with a shrug.