How To Pose as a Reasonable Critic of Israel (With a Little Help From the Media)
Mark Perlmutter is an orthopedic surgeon from North Carolina. He is Jewish but believes that Zionism is “sadism” and “the moral equivalent of Nazism.” Feroze...
China’s Internet-of-Everything Gambit and Battle for LiDAR
Memos
The Azerbaijanis, Not the Azeris, Are Hosting COP29
The Republic of Azerbaijan will host the annual UN Climate Change Conference known as COP29 in November 2024. For many who will attend COP29 and follow the process, this will be their first...
Op-eds
Arming Consumers With Cybersecurity Data Can Protect U.S. Critical Infrastructure
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) earlier this month approved the U.S. Cyber Trust Mark program, a voluntary cybersecurity labeling initiative for Internet of Things (IoT) devices. This much-needed...
Policy Briefs
Much Ado About ‘Somethings’
China-Linked Influence Operation Endures Despite Takedowns
Memos
Iran has upped its cyberattacks: It’s time for Biden to strike back
Iran has dramatically stepped up its cyberattacks against the United States since Oct. 7, prompting little to no response from the White House. Like the rockets, drones and anti-ship missiles from Tehran’s...
Op-eds
The Missing Middle
Addressing the Absence of Firmware Security
Memos
Remarks by Matt Pottinger at Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation’s China Forum 2023
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Remarks
Building Partner Capabilities for Cyber Operations
Memos
Blind Sided
A Reconceptualization of the Role of Emerging Technologies in Shaping Information Operations in the Gray Zone
Op-eds
At the United Nations, Israel is ‘the Jew Among the Nations’
China presented itself as a champion of Muslim rights last Tuesday, when it asked the United Nations Security Council to hold a special session to address an Israeli minister’s visit to the Temple Mount,...
Op-eds
‘Adopt’ an Iranian Political Prisoner to Save a Life
The regime kills much more easily in darkness.
Op-eds
Possible Futures for Russia’s CEEW Playbook
The Weaponization of Capital
Strategic Implications of China’s Private Equity/Venture Capital Playbook
Memos
Putin Puts Europe Into an Energy Vise So Tight That Some Countries Are Chopping Wood
In addition to nuclear blackmail, Russia is using natural gas to put Europe in a hammerlock.
Op-eds
Time to Sanction the Kremlin’s Ministry of Truth
When media platforms obey their paymasters’ orders to become complicit in their crimes, they are no longer media.
Op-eds
U.S. Standards Body Reaches Critical Milestone for Mitigating the Quantum Threat, But More Work Is Needed
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced at the beginning of July the successful testing and selection of the first four algorithms that will become part of NIST’s post-quantum...
Policy Briefs
Russia sanctions grow faster, larger than South Africa sanctions in 1980s
When I lived in Moscow, I worked for Bloomberg, banked at Citibank, used my Visa card at Ikea, lunched at McDonald’s and flew home on Aeroflot to New York. As of this week, all that is over. As more than...
Op-eds
Does Big Tech Have an Anti-Semitism Problem?
Employees at Google and Amazon launched a petition drive this week to persuade both companies to end their contracts with the world’s only Jewish state. Google and Amazon can send a powerful...
Op-eds
Social Media Is an Intel Gold Mine. Why Aren’t Governments Using It?
“To platform or to deplatform” is the wrong debate.