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April 14, 2025 | Harry Krejsa, RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery

AI Power Demand Is Remaking Our Energy Ecosystem – While Painting a Target on Its Back

Even in its most conservative projections, AI-driven booms in electricity use are poised to provide a once-in-a-generation opportunity – and imperative – to secure our grid against PRC cyber attacks OpenAI...

April 11, 2025 | |

U.S. Levies Sanctions Against Chinese Oil Storage Terminal for Iranian Oil Purchases

State Department Sanctions Chinese Oil Facility: The U.S. State Department has sanctioned a China-based crude oil storage terminal for receiving “at least eight Iranian crude...

March 28, 2025 | Jonathan Schanzer, Sinan Ciddi, Melissa Sacks, Michael Rubin

Hamas and Turkey: Partners in Terror

March 27, 2025 | Bridget Toomey |

Key targets hit by ongoing US airstrikes against the Houthis

US Central Command (CENTCOM) has conducted consistent airstrikes against the Houthis, officially known as Ansar Allah, since March 15. The operation is in response to the Yemeni...

March 26, 2025 | |

‘Maximum Pressure’: Iran’s Rial Hits Record Low Due to U.S. Sanctions

Value Halved Within 8 Months: Iran’s currency collapsed to a record low on March 25. The Iranian rial fell to 1,039,000 against the U.S. dollar, less than half its value in July...

March 24, 2025 | |

‘These Tankers Were Iranian’: Baghdad Accuses Tehran of Forging Iraqi Documents to Evade Oil Sanctions

False Shipping Manifests: Iranian oil tankers used forged Iraqi documents to smuggle oil, Iraqi Oil Minister Hayan Abdel-Ghani said in a news conference on March 24. Abdel-Ghani...

March 21, 2025 | |

U.S. Levies Sanctions Against Chinese ‘Teapot’ Oil Refineries for Iranian Oil Purchases

Treasury Sanctions Chinese Refineries: The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned a Chinese “teapot” refinery and its CEO on...

March 20, 2025 | |

IDF Partially Retakes Netzarim Corridor, Hamas and Houthis Target Israel

IDF Retakes Netzarim: The IDF confirmed on March 19 that it had regained military control over parts of the Netzarim Corridor, which runs from Gaza’s Mediterranean coast to the...

March 5, 2025 | Craig Singleton |

Countering Threats Posed by the Chinese Communist Party to U.S. National Security

March 4, 2025 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross |

The Digital Battlefield

How Terrorists Use the Internet and Online Networks for Recruitment and Radicalization

February 25, 2025 | Craig Singleton |

Missed Milestones

Evaluating The Last Four Years in the EAP Region and Unseized Opportunities Under President Trump

February 14, 2025 | Annie Fixler, Rohannah Shrestha 

Ending the Ransomware Scourge Requires Punishing Its Enablers

Washington and its allies took a bite out of cybercrime on Tuesday in a series of coordinated steps against ransomware actors and their internet infrastructure.

February 10, 2025 | |

Israel SitRep: February 10, 2025

Today’s Issue: | IDF Arabic-Language Spokesman Issues Instructions and Warnings for Gazans Following Army’s Withdrawal From Netzarim Corridor | Following Withdrawal From Netzarim Corridor, IDF Deploying...

February 7, 2025 | |

Iran Takes Delivery of Drone Ship as Supreme Leader Downplays Potential for New Nuclear Talks With Trump Administration

New Iranian Drone Carrier Delivered: Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Navy received its first drone carrier ship, according to Iranian state media reports on February...

January 17, 2025 | Jiwon Ma, Maria Riofrio

PowerSchool Breach Highlights Growing Cybersecurity Risks in America’s Schools

PowerSchool, a cloud-based software provider for K-12 schools, confirmed on January 7 that hackers breached its systems late last year, affecting thousands of school districts across the United States...

January 15, 2025 | Craig Singleton |

Biotech Battlefield

Weaponizing Innovation in the Age of Genomics

January 3, 2025 | Behnam Ben Taleblu |

The Shadow War

A review of Yonah Jeremy Bob and Ilan Evyatar, “Target Tehran: How Israel Is Using Sabotage, Cyberwarfare, Assassination—and Secret Diplomacy—to Stop a Nuclear Iran and Create a New Middle East” (Simon & Schuster, 2023).

January 3, 2025 | David May |

World Bowls Tour Allows Israeli Participation, Reversing Previous Discriminatory Decision 

The World Bowls Tour (WBT) on December 31 reversed its decision to bar three Israeli athletes from competing in the World Indoor Bowls Championships to be held in England in mid-January...

December 18, 2024 | Bradley Bowman, Max Lesser

American Confidence in Elections

Prohibiting Foreign Interference

December 18, 2024 | Max Lesser, Mason Krusch, Ari Ben Am

America Resilient in the Face of Aggressive Foreign Malign Influence Targeting the 2024 U.S. Elections