The final topic discussed at the recent July 2025 OODA Network Meeting delved into the global AI race—a domain where opportunity, uncertainty, and strategic risk converge.
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The Autonomy Institute’s new report reveals a sharp rise in AI-related risks disclosed by S&P 500 companies, signaling a pivotal shift in corporate awareness, regulatory exposure, and competitive threat perception. This analysis reveals ...
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The July 2025 OODA Network meeting featured an in-depth discussion of the accelerating convergence of AI, counter-drone defense, cybersecurity, and geopolitical instability, shaped by member insights and real-world operational experience.
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The Center for a New American Security’s report “Swarms over the Strait: Drone Warfare in a Future Fight to Defend Taiwan” argues that drones will play a pivotal but insufficient role in a future U.S.-China ...
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Russia is advancing a hybrid warfare strategy that fuses the weaponization of displacement, strategic dependencies, and paramilitary proxies in Africa to undermine Western influence, extract resources, and create instability. A new RAND report, Russian Mercenary ...
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The AI Futures Project’s “AI 2027” paints a detailed and unsettling forecast for the arrival of artificial superintelligence by the end of the decade. Co-authored by AI forecasters - including ex-OpenAI researcher Daniel Kokotajlo, Scott ...
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Emerging technologies like generative AI and machine learning are transforming traditional conflict simulation and peacebuilding processes. By integrating these tools into wargaming and war termination modeling, analysts can generate more inclusive, cost-effective, and dynamic scenarios—reshaping ...
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In an era defined by chaotic signals and unprecedented volatility, Steven Weber’s "Scenario Planning Amid Radical Uncertainty" (MIT Sloan Management Review, July 2025) urges decision-makers to abandon false certainty and embrace expansive scenario planning. His ...
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The Secure World Foundation’s 2025 report on global counterspace capabilities reveals a rapidly escalating arms race in orbit, with 12 nations actively developing technologies to disrupt or destroy satellites. This comes as the U.S. accelerates ...
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AI-bio convergence is emerging as a geopolitical race akin to nuclear or semiconductor competition, with strategic implications for national security and the economy. At the recent SCSP AI+ Expo for National Competitiveness, leading ...
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