For over half a century, the Office of Net Assessment (ONA) served as the Pentagon’s internal think tank for long-term competition, strategic foresight, and technological offset. Its founder, Andrew W. Marshall, known as “Yoda,” designed ...
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The National Security Commission on Emerging Biotechnology (NSCEB) 22025 report, mandated by Congress and delivered to the White House and DoD, calls for urgent modernization of U.S. bio-innovation governance to counter China’s accelerating state-driven biotech ...
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In a bold escalation of private-sector engagement with national security, JPMorgan Chase has announced a $1.5 trillion “Security and Resiliency Initiative” aimed at strengthening the U.S. industrial base, critical infrastructure, and technological competitiveness.
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IBM and Anthropic are pushing forward a new standard for enterprise-grade AI with the Model Content Protocol (MCP), an emerging framework for securely connecting AI agents with enterprise data and applications.
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The accelerating use of drones by Mexican and transnational cartels signals a dangerous shift: illicit groups are scaling drone warfare from tactical innovation to a global architecture of power.
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The new front in great power competition is not cyber or space, but cognition. Beijing and Moscow are systematically weaponizing perception - deploying artificial intelligence, disinformation, and psychological operations to erode trust in institutions, ...
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Russia’s covert “shadow fleet” of tankers and the global resurgence of piracy mark a new phase in maritime competition. From the Baltic to the Caribbean, gray-zone logistics, economic warfare, and criminal opportunism are converging - ...
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The rise in political violence in the U.S. (across the political spectrum) and the ongoing government operations crisis are not a traditional left/right "political" narrative. They are symptomatic of the convergence of larger, historically ...
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How accelerationism, stochastic terrorism, and networked power are reshaping governance, security, and the role of the nation-state.
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Tech billionaires are not content with influencing government from the sidelines — they are now attempting to build communities and quasi-states where they can write the laws, apply advanced tech freely, and escape the constraints ...
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