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Inside Ukraine’s Battlefield Innovation Loop

Catarina Buchatskiy and Viktoriia Honcharuk

In Brief: Is China or the United States Winning the Race in AI Innovation?

Vivek Chilukuri, Zach Beecher, Melanie Sisson, and Jeffrey Ding

Powering American Renewal with Innovation

David McCormick, Chris Brose, and Ryan Evans

Bringing the Army to Innovation

Jeff Decker and Mrinal Menon

Defense Innovation Is Falling Short

Christopher Zember and Peter Khooshabeh

Special Operations as an Innovation Laboratory

Leo Blanken, Philip Swintek, and Justin Davis

ISIL’s Virtual Planners: A Critical Terrorist Innovation

Daveed Gartenstein-Ross and Madeleine Blackman

Five Costs of Military Innovation

Lena Andrews and Julia Macdonald

Five New Rules for Defense Innovation

Stephen Rodriguez and Sam Zega

Project Vulcan: Special Ops and the Tech Innovation End Game

Anthony Davis, James Geurts, Adam Jay Harrison, Jawad Rachami, and Christopher Zember

Innovation Warfare: Technology Domain Awareness and America’s Military Edge

Adam Jay Harrison, Christopher Zember, and Jawad Rachami

How to Discover Defense Innovation

Mark Jacobsen, Nate Finney, Joe Byerly, Mikhail Grinberg, Roxanne Bras, and Darryl Diptee

A New Defense Innovation Base

Adam Jay Harrison, Jawad Rachami, and Christopher Zember

Before Q-Day: The Race to Quantum First

Mauritz Kop and Joe Federici

Trojan Spirit, the Army’s Intelligence Backbone, Needs a Successor

Mike Davenport, Stephen Fogarty, and Gus Taveras

How Japan Could Co-Produce the Navy’s Future Fleet

Jeff Kucik, Noah Moyer, and Darlene Onuorah

How Much Longer Can Russia Last in the War?

Collin Meisel and Mathew Burrows

The Importance of the Battle of Savo Island

John Severini and Stephen Biddle

The F-35 Is a Masterpiece Built for the Wrong War

John G. Ferrari and Dillon Prochnicki

The End of Managed Escalation in the Gulf

Robert Mason and Rikard Jalkebro

Bonus In Brief: Choke Point: The Risks and Realities of America’s Iran Blockade

Emma Salisbury, Jennifer Parker, Alex Vatanka, Yun Sun, and Alessio Patalano

Takeaways from China’s National People’s Congress Meeting

Ling Chen, Jaehwan Lim, Shanshan Mei, and Neil Thomas

AI-Ready Biodata Is America’s Next Strategic Infrastructure

Michelle Holko, John Wilbanks, and Sam Howell

Economic Statecraft Is Back. Is America Ready?

Nicholas Hanson and Madeline Field

The Genesis Mission and Quantum Technologies

Prineha Narang and Joshua Levine

Pros and Cons in the National Security Strategy

Kori Schake, Daniel DePetris, Rebecca Lissner, and Frank Hoffman

Building an Academic Arsenal

John Beieler, John P. Sawyer, and Ryan Evans

G20 Summit Outcomes: Multilateralism Survives

Zainab Usman, Gesine Weber, Henrietta Levin, and Tanvi Madan

The Case for Treating Drones as Ammunition

Zachary Griffiths and Jeff Ivas

Acquisition Transformation: How to Make it Last

Elaine McCusker and John G. Ferrari

Trump’s Week in Asia: Gifts, Deals, and Submarines

Susannah Patton, Sheila Smith, Jenny Town, Zack Cooper, and Jacob Stokes

Igniting the American Quantum Economy

Prineha Narang and Joshua Levine

Is Europe Too Soft to Fight?

Florence Gaub and Roderick Parkes

How Food Feeds Strategic Competition

Rosella Cappella Zielinski and Justin Gilpin

The Supply Chain Chokepoints in Quantum

Prineha Narang and Joshua Levine

How Often Overlooked Non-State Actors Are Using Drones

Richard Horsey, R. Evan Ellis, Tricia Bacon, and Nathaniel Powell

America’s Quantum Manufacturing Moment

Prineha Narang and Joshua Levine

Is Europe Stepping Up on Defense?

Sir Richard Barrons, Peter Michael Nielsen, and Ryan Evans

Lots of Royal Soft Power but Any Concrete Outcomes?

Andrew Mumford, Matthew Savill, Emma Salisbury, Jacob Parakilas, and Hillary Briffa

The Geopolitics of Drone Exports

Pinar Tank, Matthew P. Funaiole, Stacie Pettyjohn, and Nir Reuven

The Pentagon’s Software Revolution and Its Testing Dilemma

Douglas C. Schmidt and Nickolas H. Guertin

How Reservists Can Jumpstart Military Software Development

Will McGee, Collin Chew, and Drew Hutcheon

Eastern Stars Rising: The Rise of China’s Commercial Space Industry

Ryan Nelson, Taylor Rhoten, and Brian MacCarthy

Too Much Tech Can Ruin Wargames

Jonathan Compton, Joseph Mroszczyk, and Matthew Tattar

Russian and Ukrainian Advantages in Drone Warfare

Dominika Kunertova, Stacie Pettyjohn, Erik Lin-Greenberg, and Caitlin Lee

Moving Fast and Breaking the Status Quo

Ryan Evans and Justin Fanelli

The Army’s Upcoming Transformation, with Secretary Driscoll and Gen. George

Secretary of the Army Daniel Driscoll, Gen. Randy George, and Ryan Evans

The Middle East’s AI Warfare Laboratory

Frederic Wehrey and Andrew Bonney

Agentic Warfare Is Here. Will America Be the First Mover?

Benjamin Jensen, Dan Tadross, and Matthew Strohmeyer

In Brief: Balancing Speed and Security in Defense Communications

Mackenzie Eaglen, Emerson T. Brooking, and Erik Schuh

Rearming Europe: Challenges and Constraints

Andrea Gilli, Mauro Gilli, and Niccolò Petrelli

In Brief: How Might Defense Budget Cuts Affect Investments in Emerging Technologies?

Doug Berenson, Radha Iyengar Plumb, Stephen Tankel, and Mackenzie Eaglen

In Brief: Trump Executive Orders and What They Mean for National Security

Ankit Panda, Emma Ashford, Whitney McNamara, and Melanie Marlowe

The Coming Wave of Wartime Drone Expertise

Walker Mills, Andrew Tenbusch, and Trevor Phillips-Levine

In Brief: How Long Until Defense Tech Limited Partners See Returns?

Lauren Bedula, Jeff Crusey, and Stephen Rodriguez

Alliance Networking in Europe and the Indo-Pacific

Lotje Boswinkel, Luis Simón, Alexander Lanoszka, and Hugo Meijer

In Brief: The Rise of “Non-Traditional” Defense Companies

Jacqueline Tame, Shyam Sankar, Justin Johnson, Doug Berenson, Stephen Rodriguez, and Matt Byington

China, Clean Technologies, and National Security

Joshua Busby, Morgan Bazilian, and Emily Holland

China’s Defense Spending: The $700 Billion Distraction

M. Taylor Fravel, George Gilboy, and Eric Heginbotham

Without Talent Agility, America May Lose

Jim Perkins and Mike McGinley

Beyond Fusion: Preparing for Systems Rivalry with China

Liza Tobin, Addis Goldman, and Katherine Kurata

The U.S. Department of Deterrence

Erik Gartzke and Jon Lindsay

Sustainable Sustainment: Supplying War in the Age of Strategic Competition

Lt. Gen. Xavier Brunson, Christopher Boss, and Leo Blanken

Techcraft on Display in Ukraine

Brian A. Hester, Dennis Doyle, and Ronan A. Sefton

Should Taiwan Attempt to Replicate the Zelensky Playbook?

Jason Vogt, Nina Kollars, and Michael Poznansky

German Atomwaffen and the Superweapon Trap

Gustav Meibauer and Christopher David LaRoche

In Brief: Defense Integration of Commercial Space Capabilities

Makena Young, Steven R. E. Jordan Tomaszewski, Victoria Samson, and Christian Zur

Delay, Disrupt, Degrade: Mine Warfare in Taiwan’s Porcupine Defense

Jonathan Dorsey, Kelly A. Grieco, and Jennifer Kavanagh

In Brief: Europe’s New Defense Industrial Strategy

Ulrike Franke, Franz-Stefan Gady, Paula Alvarez-Couceiro Fernandez, Daniel Fiott, Kaija Schilde, and Luis Simón

Containing Global Russia

Michael Kimmage and Hanna Notte

In Brief: The National Defense Industrial Strategy

Elaine McCusker, Tara Murphy Dougherty, Clint Hinote, and Jeff Decker

Trends in Maritime Challenges Indicate Force Design 2030 Is the Proper Path

C. Travis Reese, Ian Brown, Zach Ota, Travis Hord, Leo Spaeder, and Brian Strom

The Future of Algorithmic Warfare Part IV: Promise Fulfilled

Scott Cuomo, Benjamin Jensen, and Christopher Whyte

One Size Fits None: The United States Needs a Grand Defense Industrial Strategy

Jonathan Caverley, Ethan Kapstein, and Jennifer Kavanagh

In Brief: New Controls on Chips

Sarah Bauerle Danzman, Stephen Ezell, Emily Kilcrease, and Chris Miller

Rebuilding Ukraine’s Economy Starts Now

Ralph Clem, Erik Herron, and Matthew Lantzy

Revisiting the Hedge Strategy with Renewed Urgency

Michael Brown and Rear Adm. Lorin Selby

The Future of Algorithmic Warfare Part III: Stagnation

Benjamin Jensen, Christopher Whyte, and Scott Cuomo

A Divorce Between the Navy and Cyber Command Would Be Dangerous

Chris C. Demchak, Michael Poznansky, and Sam Tangredi

Space Mission Authorization: Enabling the Final Frontier

Zeke Clayson, Frank Spellman, Shiv Patel, and Dan Shen

The Future of Algorithmic Warfare Part II: Wild Goose Chases

Benjamin Jensen, Christopher Whyte, and Scott Cuomo

Delivering the Army of 2030

Gen. James Rainey and Lt. Gen. Laura Potter

The Future of Algorithmic Warfare: Fragmented Development

Benjamin Jensen, Christopher Whyte, and Scott Cuomo

How Advanced Is Russian-Chinese Military Cooperation?

Dmitry Gorenburg, Elizabeth Wishnick, Paul Schwartz, and Brian Waidelich

Are We Asking Too Much of Cyber?

Erica Lonergan and Michael Poznansky

AI At War

Anthony King

Technology, Defense, And American-Chinese Competition

Christopher Preble, Zack Cooper, and Melanie Marlowe

The Somme in the Sky: Lessons from the Russo-Ukrainian Air War

Michael Stefanovic, Robert “Chuck” Norris, Christophe Piubeni, and Dave Blair

Into the Pickle Barrel: How Thinking About Precision as a System Can Expand the Munition Stockpile

Trevor Phillips-Levine, Andrew Tenbusch, Walker Mills, Dylan “Joose” Phillips-Levine, and Collin Fox

Software Defines Tactics

Jason Weiss and Dan Patt

Leveraging U.S. Capital Markets to Support the Future Industrial Network

Joseph L. Votel, Francis A. Finelli, and Samuel Cole

Don’t Drive Away Smart Students

Ryan P. Kellogg and Anita R. Kellogg

Sustainment of the Stand-In Force

John Sattely and Jason A. Paredes

The Grand Race for Techno-Security Leadership

Tai Ming Cheung and Thomas G. Mahnken

Getting the Taiwan Policy Act Right

Richard L. Armitage and Zack Cooper

An Alternative History of AirLand Battle, Part II

David Johnson and Zach Alessi-Friedlander

An Alternative History of AirLand Battle, Part I

David Johnson and Zach Alessi-Friedlander

Weak Human, Strong Force: Applying Advanced Chess to Military AI

Trevor Phillips-Levine, Michael Kanaan, Dylan “Joose” Phillips-Levine, Walker Mills, and Noah Spataro

Don’t Delay Getting Serious About Cislunar Security

Jessy Kate Schingler, Victoria Samson, and Nivedita Raju

Helping the Leadership Lead

Ben Buchheim-Jurisson and Joseph Mellone

Don’t Let Russia Dominate the Strategic Concept

Jordan Becker, Douglas Lute, and Simon Smith

The Changing Character of Combined Arms

Benjamin Jensen and Matthew Strohmeyer

How to Get NATO Forces the Technology They Need

Cynthia R. Cook and Anna M. Dowd

Intelligence and the War in Ukraine: Part 1

Neveen Shaaban Abdalla, Philip H. J. Davies, Kristian Gustafson, Dan Lomas, and Steven Wagner

After Ukraine, Where Will India Buy Its Weapons?

Vasabjit Banerjee and Benjamin Tkach

Beware of Potemkin: Germany’s Defense Rethink Risks Reinforcing Old Habits

Torben Schütz, Joseph Verbovszky, and Heiko Borchert

The Urgent Case for Energy Austerity

Emily Holland and Marco Giuli

The War We Dread

Justin Lynch and Emma Morrison

The Full Potential of a Military Metaverse

Jennifer McArdle and Caitlin Dohrman

Winged Luddites: Aviators Are the Biggest Threat to Carrier Aviation

Noah Spataro, Trevor Phillips-Levine, and Andrew Tenbusch

Accidents and Escalation in a Cyber Age

Andrew A. Szarejko and John Arquilla

Cyber Challenges for the New National Defense Strategy

Erica Lonergan and Jacquelyn Schneider

More than Math: Toward a Better Strategy for Advanced Analytics

James “Mike” Blue, Anthony Smith, and Colleen McCue

What to Expect When You’re Expecting a National Defense Strategy

Thomas Spoehr, Bradley Bowman, Bryan Clark, and Mackenzie Eaglen

Avoiding a Collision Course With India

Sameer Lalwani and Tyler Sagerstrom

There Is More War in the Classroom Than You Think

William Hitchcock and Meghan Herwig

The Militant Drone Playbook

Austin C. Doctor and James Igoe Walsh

Fully Fund the Guam Defense System

Bradley Bowman and Mark Montgomery

Foreign Policy Should Be Evidence-Based

Dan Spokojny and Thomas Scherer

To Build Joint Command and Control, First Break Joint Command and Control

Leland Cowie, Todd Graff, Craig Cude, and Brad DeWees

The Challenge of Educating the Military on Cyber Strategy

Erica Borghard, Mark Montgomery, and Brandon Valeriano

‘Bombing to Win’ at 25

Heather Venable and Sebastian Lukasik

Cyber Security as Counter-Terrorism: Seeking a Better Debate

Simon Handler, Emma Schroeder, and Trey Herr

Reconsidering Arms Control Orthodoxy

Naomi Egel and Jane Vaynman

Steering in the Right Direction in the Military-Technical Revolution

Robert Work, James A. Winnefeld, Jr., and Stephanie O’Sullivan

Joint Force Operating Scenarios: Improving Analysis and Oversight of Force Development

Leo Spaeder, John K. Adams, C. Travis Reese, and John T. Quinn II

On the Digital Brink

Chris Lynch and Oliver Lewis

Advantage At Sea Requires Rethinking Influence

Erika De La Parra Gehlen and Frank L. Smith III

Can the United States Prevent a War over Taiwan?

Robert D. Blackwill and Philip Zelikow

Lawyers, Guns, and Twitter: Wargaming the Role of Law in War

Thomas J. Gordon IV, Adam Oler, Laurie Blank, and Jill Goldenziel

The U.S. Defense Industry in a New Era

Doug Berenson, Chris Higgins, and Jim Tinsley

How the Army Out-Innovated the Islamic State’s Drones

Kyle Brown, Jonathan Askonas, and T.S. Allen

The Next National Defense Strategy

Benjamin Jensen and Nathan Packard

The Last Jihadi Superstar

Thomas Hegghammer

Retooling U.S. Security Sector Assistance

Stephen Tankel and Tommy Ross

Making a U.S. Digital Service Academy Work

Harrison Schramm and Todd Lyons

Wargaming Cyber Security

Benjamin Schechter

Civil-Military Lessons from Latin America

David Pion-Berlin and Andrew Ivey

Strengthening Industrial Base Decision-Making for Precision-Guided Munitions

Julie C. Kelly, Daniel E. Lago, and James S. Thomason

Gearing up for Economic Statecraft

David McCormick and Ryan Evans

Navigating Sino-Russian Defense Cooperation

Andrea Kendall-Taylor, David Shullman, and Dan McCormick

Money and Might

Zack Cooper, Melanie Marlowe, and Christopher Preble

Is the United States Losing the African Space Race?

Judd Devermont and Temidayo Oniosun

Disarming Disinformation

Jessica Brandt, Camille Francois, and Doyle Hodges

Getting the Context of Marine Corps Reform Right

Jeff Cummings, Scott Cuomo, Noah Spataro, and Olivia Garard

Affordable, Abundant, and Autonomous: The Future of Ground Warfare

Liam Collins and Harrison “Brandon” Morgan

Technology-Enabled Mission Command

B. A. Friedman and Olivia Garard

Pandemics and the Future of Military Training

Jennifer McArdle, Thomas Kehr, and Gene Colabatistto

Supporting Joint Warfighting with Mission-Level Simulations

Robert Richbourg, June Rodriguez, David M. Gohlich, and James N. Bexfield

Clearing the Air on 5G

Milo Medin and Gilman Louie

America’s Special Operators Will Be Adrift Without Better Civilian Oversight

Mark E. Mitchell, Zachary Griffiths, and Cole Livieratos

Digital Authoritarianism: Finding Our Way Out of the Darkness

Naazneen Barma, Brent Durbin, and Andrea Kendall-Taylor

AI, Cyberspace, and Nuclear Weapons

James Johnson and Eleanor Krabill

Day Zero Ethics for Military AI

Owen Daniels and Brian Williams

The Pitfalls and Possibilities of the Measurement Revolution for National Security

Ethan Bueno de Mesquita, Liam Collins, Kristen G. DeCaires, and Jacob N. Shapiro

Mosaic Warfare: Small and Scalable are Beautiful

Benjamin Jensen and John Paschkewitz

AI for Peace

Patrick S. Roberts

AI and Irregular Warfare: An Evolution, Not a Revolution

Daniel Egel, Eric Robinson, Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Charles T. Cleveland, and Christopher (CJ) Oates

Doors of Perception

Thomas Brady and Jim Perkins

Export Controls in the Age of AI

Jade Leung, Sophie-Charlotte Fischer, and Allan Dafoe

Unleashing the Power of Space: The Case for a Separate U.S. Space Force

Acting Secretary of the Air Force Matthew Donovan

The One with Mara Jade

Elsa Kania, Loren DeJonge Schulman, and Erin Simpson

Can South Korea and America Find a Common Position on China?

Richard Fontaine, Kristine Lee, and Hannah Suh

Charting a New Course for the Navy-Marine Corps-Coast Guard Team

Jeff Cummings, Scott Cuomo, Kathleen R. Dagher, Austin Duncan, Gordon Emmanuel, James George, Benjamin Jensen, Shawn Lansing, Torey McMurdo, Ryan Pallas, and Noah Spataro

Five Eyes Must Lead on 5G

Rep. Mike Gallagher and Tom Tugendhat, MP

A Close Look at France’s New Military Cyber Strategy

François Delerue, Alix Desforges, and Aude Géry

Bombshell: Real or Fake?

Frances Brown, Loren DeJonge Schulman, Radha Iyengar, and Erin Simpson

Jaw-Jaw: How America Got China Wrong

Brad Carson and Ely Ratner

Debating a World Reorder

Samir Saran and Harsh V. Pant

Good Will Hunting: The Strategic Threat of Poor Talent Management

Richard Kuzma, Ian Shaw, Zac Dannelly, and Drew Calcagno

The Death of Precision in Warfare?

Paul Barnes and Alexandra Stickings

Ignorance and Professional Military Education: The Case for Operational Engagement

Thang Tran, Michael Oliveira, Josh Sider, and Leo Blanken