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Congress Must Save the Navy from Catastrophic Failure: Barreling toward a Hollow Navy dlvr.it/TVYLzB

Congress Must Save the Navy from Catastrophic Failure: Barreling toward a Hollow Navy

The U.S. Constitution clearly states that Congress is responsible “To provide and maintain a Navy.”  Never has this clause been more important.  In June 2022, I argued 

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Building Durable Demand for American Ships dlvr.it/TVYLVw

Building Durable Demand for American Ships

Can Washington Build a Maritime Industrial Base Without a Market for American Ships? For years, assessments of America’s shipbuilding have been largely the same: not enough shipyards, not enough

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What’s Behind Seoul’s Olive Branch to Pyongyang? dlvr.it/TVXZkB

What’s Behind Seoul’s Olive Branch to Pyongyang?

On the 81st anniversary of Korea’s liberation from Japanese colonial rule, South Korean President Lee Jae Myung called for a formal conclusion of the Korean War and peaceful ties between Seoul a

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We Are All Out of Doves dlvr.it/TVXZcq

We Are All Out of Doves

Why President Trump Must Take the National Mantle Against Xi Jinping The age of doves is finished. Soft engagement, strategic patience, and the fiction that the Chinese Communist Party can be managed

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Potential for Russia Escalating War Continues dlvr.it/TVXZWq

Potential for Russia Escalating War Continues

Executive Summary: Escalation between Russia and the West is becoming more likely as Russia’s war against Ukraine continues. The potential of a new front in Ukraine, with troops possibly coming

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Is Space Force Pivoting Too Soon? dlvr.it/TVXZS9

Is Space Force Pivoting Too Soon?

Next-Gen OPIR Is More Than a Bridge—It's the Foundation of Missile Warning's Future Past is Prologue? In 2009, after spending roughly $18 billion, the Army cancelled Future Combat Systems befor

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The Manufactured War on AI dlvr.it/TVXZMl

The Manufactured War on AI

How Foreign Adversaries and Domestic Politics Threaten America’s Technological Future The rapid expansion of artificial intelligence infrastructure has sparked a fierce national debate, but we n

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Senators Voice Criticism About Pentagon Briefing on U.S. Defense Strategy dlvr.it/TVXZGk

Senators Voice Criticism About Pentagon Briefing on U.S. Defense Strategy

WASHINGTON (AP) — Tensions are mounting between the Pentagon and Congress over the flow of information to lawmakers about the U.S. military’s priorities, with both Democrats and Republican

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Securing the Connective Tissue of the Global Commons: The Indian Ocean Gap dlvr.it/TVWjgq

Securing the Connective Tissue of the Global Commons: The Indian Ocean Gap

As the Pentagon approaches its September 18 force-posture review, the strategic logic underlying American military deployments demands rigorous re-examination. The measure of a global force posture is

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From Tehran to Tokyo: How American Standoff Warfare Validates China's Taiwan Quarantine dlvr.it/TVWj6B

From Tehran to Tokyo: How American Standoff Warfare Validates China's Taiwan Quarantine

Six months into Operation Epic Fury, the United States has executed a telling strategic pivot in the Middle East. While the American military has demonstrated unparalleled capability in striking targe

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Defense AI Needs a Chain of Command for Agents dlvr.it/TVWhyc

Defense AI Needs a Chain of Command for Agents

Military organizations already understand a principle that civilian AI governance is only beginning to confront: authority becomes dangerous when responsibility is diffuse. That principle should shape

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The Fourth Offset: A Dragon Named 'Capacity' dlvr.it/TVWhTK

The Fourth Offset: A Dragon Named 'Capacity'

America does not lack advanced weapons. We lack enough of them. That distinction may determine whether we deter the next war - or lose it. And this is not a problem created by today’s conflicts.

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Nuclear Deterrence: Germany’s Options in a Changing Security Order dlvr.it/TVWhNJ

Nuclear Deterrence: Germany’s Options in a Changing Security Order

Michael Rühle, Nuclear Deterrence: Germany’s Options in a Changing Security Order, No. 669, September 15, 2026 Download PDF Nuclear Deterrence: Germany’s Options in a Cha

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House Votes for a Third Time To End the Iran War As Conflict dlvr.it/TVVspz

House Votes for a Third Time To End the Iran War As Conflict

WASHINGTON (AP) — For a third time, the U.S. House has voted to end the war in Iran, approving a war powers resolution that would halt President Donald Trump’s ability to continue military

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Memory Chip Shortage Requires Investment and Teamwork dlvr.it/TVVpWr

Memory Chip Shortage Requires Investment and Teamwork

Artificial intelligence (AI) data centers are popping up across the country. The AI infrastructure buildout is critical to our economy, our technological leadership, and our national security, and the

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Open Development Could Hand China the 21st Century dlvr.it/TVVpSQ

Open Development Could Hand China the 21st Century

China has gone all in on open weight AI, and it’s potentially going to allow it to dominate the AI industry. Open-weight models allow developers to modify and run the models on their own hardwar

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Capital Must Become Capability dlvr.it/TVVpPW

Capital Must Become Capability

The Pentagon is asking the right financial questions. The risk is treating vastly different financial problems as though they require the same solution. Deputy Secretary of War Steve Feinberg is addre

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Japan’s Record Defence Budget Request Is Really About AI dlvr.it/TVVpKF

Japan’s Record Defence Budget Request Is Really About AI

Japan is moving from a defence buildup centered on adding hardware capacity to a defence transformation centered on integration with intangible force multipliers. This buildup comes with a record def

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Anchoring Army Modernization to Operational Problems dlvr.it/TVVpF7

Anchoring Army Modernization to Operational Problems

Project Convergence-Capstone 6 demonstrated the value of testing emerging technology under realistic battlefield conditions. Soldiers at Fort Irwin tested emerging technologies alongside joint and all

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Seoul’s Defence Pivot to Europe dlvr.it/TVVp7p

Seoul’s Defence Pivot to Europe

North Korea’s troops in Ukraine have given South Korea and European nations new reasons to work together. South Korean President Lee Jae-myung has just returned from France, where his state visi

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