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10 Ways the U.S. Can Strengthen Deterrence in the Taiwan Strait

The US Military’s Cyberwarfare Challenge

Since its inception, US Cyber Command has struggled to find its place within the US military.

Fresh Off Major Defense Drills, Taiwan Proposes Record Military Spending

Taiwan is doubling down on a double-digit increase in baseline defense spending. On August 20, Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te proposed an 18 percent increase in baseline defense spending for the coming...

When Paris Celebrates the Bankruptcy of Human Rights

On Monday, July 27, at the United Nations Security Council, American diplomats stood up and walked out as the French ambassador began to speak. Ukraine was the item on the agenda that day. In Moscow and...

New Taiwanese Drills Seek To Enhance Maritime Resilience Against Chinese Coercion

Taiwan is stepping up its preparations to counter a possible Chinese sea-based blockade.  On July 28, Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense announced that it would integrate counter-blockade...

Trump’s unpredictability and China’s bullying force a reaction in Asia

Governments across the region are assuming more responsibility for their countries’ security.

A smoking gun in the Solomons proves information shaping by China

Xi Jinping has stated, “The crumbling of a regime always starts in the realm of ideas. Changing the way people think is a long-term process. Once the front lines of human thought have been broken through, other defensive lines also become harder to defend.”

Simultaneity: You Only Need a Two-Body Problem to Be Screwed

The 2026 National Defense Strategy (NDS) made an admission that its predecessors only implied: the United States cannot realistically plan to fight two major wars simultaneously and should instead focus...

The Muslim Brotherhood’s British piggy bank

Each month, U.K.-based charity Human Appeal receives roughly a quarter of a million visitors to its website. In 2024 alone, the organization drew in an estimated $110 million in donations. Yet,...

China Targets the U.S. Rare Earth Comeback

The short pause in U.S.-China minerals warfare is over. The May 2026 Trump-Xi summit in Beijing raised hopes of extending the critical minerals truce that began at the October 2025 Busan summit, where...

AI Is Outpacing NATO’s Hybrid Defense Playbook

NATO just received a glimpse of how a blackout can quickly become a crisis. At a three-day exercise in Bydgoszcz, Poland, NATO tested its ability to respond to a multi-domain crisis that combined cyberattacks...

Spectrum Abundance for Weird Space Stuff

Time to Stop the Music: How Terrorists Exploit Music Streaming Platforms

Previewing the Trump-Xi Summit 

The Dangerous Failure to Hold Hamas Accountable for Using Human Shields

How international institutions’ silence on Hamas hiding behind civilians incentivizes human shields use, and distorts law and accountability.

A Gameplan for American Economic Security:

Supercharging U.S. Statecraft, from an Economic Pentagon to the Near-Global Economy

London stabbings shine light on Hamas’s success

Like other countries where anti-Jewish and anti-Israel outrages have reached epidemic proportions, the British public has remained fairly silent in the face of an upsurge in Jew-hatred.

Using Facial Recognition Tools To Identify October 7 Perpetrators

Qatar Influence Operations: Unmasking a Suspected Network

Taiwan to secure energy soft spots

The war in Iran indicates that the fight over controlling global energy flows is far from over. A close partner of Tehran, Beijing is no doubt factoring lessons from the conflict into its designs to...