The global race to secure rare earths has moved beneath the waves. Undersea nodule mining near Palau and along the U.S. coastline could become a strategic counterweight to China’s control over critical minerals—if environmental and ...
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This integrated assessment explores how geoeconomic transformations are unfolding across the Americas, the Northern Frontier of Mexico, the Arctic, and Africa, drawing from recent OODA Loop analyses.
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How Statecraft, Finance, and Technology Are Reshaping Global Power in the Era of Polycrisis.
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The upcoming OODAcon 2025 session “Securing Internet First Principles; Access, Privacy, and Expression in the Age of Disruptive Technology”—a fireside chat with SnowStorm CEO Serene—arrives at a critical inflection point for global digital governance.
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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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