Author Archive
Peter W. Singer
Strategist, New America

Ideas
Superspreader Down: How Trump’s Exile from Social Media Alters the Future of Politics, Security, and Public Health
Platform companies have finally come to grips with their roles as owners of battlefields.
- Peter W. Singer
Threats
Misinformation 2020: What the Data Tells Us About Election-Related Falsehoods
Here are urgent lessons from the year’s most-spread false themes — and the ones going viral right now.
- Peter W. Singer
Ideas
Three Ways to Clean Up the Toxic Minefields of Social Media
Safeguarding the social media ecosystem from hate speech and disinformation is all about tracking data and empowering users.
- Peter W. Singer, Welton Chang and Doowan Lee
Ideas
How China Is Working to Quarantine the Truth About the Coronavirus
The authoritarian playbook — censor, distract, lie — is on full display.
- Peter W. Singer, Peter Wood and Alex Stone
Ideas
As Coronavirus Spreads, China’s Military Is Largely MIA
The PLA’s anemic participation is odd given its past performance, planning, and pronouncements.
- Peter W. Singer, Peter Wood and Alex Stone
Ideas
The Snake-And-Alligator Border Moat: A Budget Analysis
We ran the numbers. It’s doable.
- Peter W. Singer
Ideas
What Insurgency Will Look Like in 2030
The author of “Ghost Fleet” has some guesses — and some questions that U.S. defenders will have to answer.
- Peter W. Singer
Ideas
The US Needs a Cybersecurity Civilian Corps
Like the auxiliaries that arose during WWII, a new volunteer organization will help face today’s threats.
- Peter W. Singer and Natasha Cohen
Ideas
What Taylor Swift Teaches Us About Online War
What is “real” has become what is real online.
- Peter W. Singer and Emerson T. Brooking
Threats
National Security Pros, It’s Time to Talk About Right-Wing Extremism
We have been too quiet about a threat that is regularly killing our fellow citizens.
- Peter W. Singer
Ideas
What We Didn't Learn from Twitter's News Dump on Russiagate
The social-media company downplayed its role in Russia's election meddling. But it's still more transparent than Facebook.
- Peter W. Singer
Ideas
Cybersecurity’s Human Side: How Can We Solve Our People Problem?
First, stop undermining our own efforts to fill crucial jobs. Second, cast a wide net for useful lessons.
- Peter W. Singer
Ideas
War Goes Viral
How social media is being weaponized across the world.
- Peter W. Singer and Emerson T. Brooking, The Atlantic
Ideas
What the 2016 Presidential Candidates Get Wrong About the Future of War
They fail, they lack, they misunderstand, they pander, they don’t get, and they just don’t know national security – not according to our Future of War roster of experts.
- Peter W. Singer
Ideas
2016 Predictions: A Look Ahead at the Future of War
New America polled former Navy SEALs, Pentagon officials, technologists, historians — and here’s what they expect.
- Peter W. Singer
Ideas
Here’s the Defining National Security Question of Our Time
We asked 20 experts whether great powers might ever go to war again.
- Peter W. Singer
Ideas
Ask Your 2016 Candidate These Questions on Drone Warfare
Our country needs to know where its next commander-in-chief stands.
- Peter W. Singer and Laura A. Dickinson
Ideas
What the ISIS Campaign Teaches Us About the Future of War
Winning today's fights still means reaching an actual victory, focusing on changing players, and heeding history.
- Peter W. Singer
Ideas
What Is the Future of War?
Facing a new inflection point, 'Future of War' project members sound off with their take on where conflict is headed in the 21st century.
- Peter W. Singer
Science & Tech
About Those Chinese Aircraft Carrier Pics: What We Know and What We Can Guess
There’s a lot to glean from the Google Earth pictures of China’s first homegrown aircraft. Assuming that’s what this is. By Jeffrey Lin and P.W. Singer
- Peter W. Singer and Jeffrey Lin