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Does China Have Strategic Dominance over the Global IT Supply Chain?

A new body of reports reveals how Beijing’s state-backed networks are embedding control across semiconductors, software, and infrastructure, transforming commercial interdependence into strategic dominance.
From Palau to the Pacific Rim: Undersea Nodules, Rare Earth Supply Chains, and Reviving U.S. Offshore Resource Strategy

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 regulatory barriers can be managed.
Geoeconomic Futures: The Americas, The Northern Frontier of Mexico, The Arctic, and Africa

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.
The New Strategic Economy: Geoeconomics and the Architecture of Influence

How Statecraft, Finance, and Technology Are Reshaping Global Power in the Era of Polycrisis.
Operationalizing Privacy: The Future of the Internet Is Being Written in Code, Compute, and Culture with SnowStorm

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.
The Past, Present, and Future of the Office of Net Assessment, and Why It Matters

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 it to peer decades ahead, comparing U.S. military and technological trajectories against those of potential adversaries.
Law Firms Are Prime Targets for APT

Law Firms Are Prime Targets for APT When the suspected nation state hackers came for Williams & Connolly, they didn’t do it with a crowbar and a ransom note. They slipped through an unpatched crease in the digital plaster, a zero-day exploit, gaining access into a “small number” of attorney email accounts. The incident appears…
Google CEO Eric Schmidt and OODA Network Member Dawn Meyerriecks on Strategic Foresight and Operationalizing Biosecurity

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 expansion
Biological Smoke Detectors for the Digital Age: A Better Future of AI and Bio Security

Biological Smoke Detectors for the Digital Age: A Better Future of AI and Bio Security In recent years, I’ve observed a concerning trend in discussions about artificial intelligence and biotechnology: the rise of “doomers” who paint apocalyptic scenarios about these technologies. While I acknowledge these technologies present real risks, as someone who served as a…
JPMorganChase’s Bold $1.5T Strategic Move to Accelerate National Security Investment and American Competitiveness

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.
Operate, Don’t Wait: The Quantum Mission Test

Operate, Don’t Wait: The Quantum Mission Test I spent over 20 years in clandestine work. In all that time, not a single operation was risk-free. Risk is in the DNA. The decisive question was always the same: after we mitigated all possible risk with tradecraft, did the expected gain justify the risk? That isn’t recklessness;…
Evolving AI Architectures: IBM and Anthropic Advance Secure Enterprise AI with Model Content Protocol

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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How China’s Rare-Earth Controls Reshape Global Power Dynamics: And what to do about it

China has dramatically expanded its export controls on rare earth minerals, further tightening its grip on materials critical for defense, technology, and semiconductor industries. China’s Ministry of Commerce issued the new restrictions on 9 October 2025. The new restrictions add five more rare earth elements to the controlled list, meaning China now restricts the export…