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The Tech and Tradecraft Behind Open Source Intelligence

Ryan Curran, Tucker Moore, Scott Petry, and Ryan Evans

The U.S. Army, Artificial Intelligence, and Mission Command

Benjamin Jensen and Maj. Gen. Jake S. Kwon

Intelligence and the War in Ukraine: Part 2

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

Intelligence and the War in Ukraine: Part 1

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

Intelligence and the Biden Administration

Carmen Medina, David Priess, Mark Stout, and Ryan Evans

Can Biden Bring Intelligence Back?

Zack Cooper, Melanie Marlowe, and Christopher Preble

Reflections on a Lifetime in Intelligence

John Brennan, Adm. (Ret.) William McRaven, and Stephen Slick

Artificial Intelligence for Medical Evacuation in Great-Power Conflict

Phillip R. Jenkins, Brian J. Lunday, and Matthew J. Robbins

Getting Smart on Pandemics: Intelligence in the Wake of COVID-19

Robert Chesney, Paul Pope, Stephen Slick, and Calder Walton

Horns of a Dilemma: Staying Ahead of the Curve in the Intelligence World

Michele L. Malvesti, John McLaughlin, Nicholas Rasmussen, and Norman Roule

Gilded Capability: Overinvestment and the Survivability Paradox

Trevor Phillips-Levine, Andrew Tenbusch, and Walker D. Mills

Economic Statecraft Is Back. Is America Ready?

Nicholas Hanson and Madeline Field

Deep Learning From Operation Sindoor: Five Takeaways From a Four-Day War

Sameer Lalwani, Shailender Arya, and David Brostoff

Protests and Crackdown: Implications for Iran

Alex Vatanka, Roham Alvandi, Nima Gerami, and Nicole Grajewski

Trump, Uncertainty, and China’s Anti-Alliance Strategy

Olivia Cheung, Luis Simón, and Giulia Tercovich

Key Elements of the 2026 National Defense Authorization Act

Matt Vallone, Steven Wills, Katherine Kuzminski, and Max Bergmann

The Genesis Mission and Quantum Technologies

Prineha Narang and Joshua Levine

Igniting the American Quantum Economy

Prineha Narang and Joshua Levine

The Global Reach of the War in Ukraine

Sergey Radchenko, Jonathan Corrado, Hanna Notte, Eric Watkins, and Christopher Hernandez-Roy

How Regional Actors Might Respond to a U.S.-Venezuelan War

Michael Weintraub, Roxanna Vigil, and Anya Prusa

How Often Overlooked Non-State Actors Are Using Drones

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

The Ripple Effects of the Oct. 7 Attack on Israel

Janice Stein, Gabriel Mitchell, Jonathan Lincoln, Zaha Hassan, and Yael Mizrahi-Arnaud

Lots of Royal Soft Power but Any Concrete Outcomes?

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

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

Why Russian-Indian Relations Have Been Steady in the Storm

Dmitry Gorenburg, Julian G. Waller, Jeffrey Edmonds, and Jeff Kucik

Tanks, Tech, and Tungsten: The Strategic Mineral Alliance the West Needs

Fabian E. Villalobos, Khrystyna Holynska, and Peter Handley

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

Ryan Nelson, Taylor Rhoten, and Brian MacCarthy

North Korea’s Deadly Drone Bonanza Is Coming to a Peninsula Near You

Jonathan Corrado, Chelsie Alexandre, and Anton Ponomarenko

The State of Russian Influence in the Middle East

Anna Borshchevskaya, Yevgeniya Gaber, Nicole Grajewski, Giorgio Cafiero, and Daniel Rakov

Calling Out Russia: France’s Shift on Public Attribution

Quentin Jalabert, Damien Van Puyvelde, and Thomas Maguire

Eye of the Storm? Revisiting IUU Fishing on the Global Stage

Aaron Delano-Johnson and Chris Bernotavicius

The Meaning of Drone-Enabled Infantry Striking Beyond Line of Sight

Antonio Salinas, Mark Askew, and Jason P. LeVay

Too Much Tech Can Ruin Wargames

Jonathan Compton, Joseph Mroszczyk, and Matthew Tattar

Populists vs. Spies in Israel and Beyond

Ofek Riemer, Daniel F. Wajner, and Ehud Eiran

The Future of Africa Command

Michael Rubin, Maureen Farrell, Jennifer Kavanagh, and Benjamin Friedman

Russia Can Afford to Take a Beating in Ukraine

Collin Meisel and Mathew Burrows

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: What Lessons Is North Korea’s Military Taking from the Russo-Ukrainian War?

Jonathan Corrado, Naoko Aoki, Markus Garlauskas, and Jenny Town

Amplifiers and Dampeners of Cyber Escalation

Jason Healey and Virpratap Vikram Singh

Can the U.S.-Ukrainian Rift Be Healed?

Constanze Stelzenmüller, Melinda Haring, Justin Logan, Michael Kofman, and Ryan Evans

In Brief: How European Leaders are Adapting to New Defense Realities

Matthew Savill, Gesine Weber, Frank Sauer, and Monika Sus

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 D. Mills, Andrew Tenbusch, and Trevor Phillips-Levine

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

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

Will Trump Focus on the Western Hemisphere?

Christopher Preble, Zack Cooper, and Melanie Marlowe

Rewind and Reconnoiter: Why Women Scare Autocrats

Kathleen J. McInnis and Benjamin Jensen

Can Europe Fight for Taiwan?

Luis Simón and Toshi Yoshihara

Alliance Networking in Europe and the Indo-Pacific

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

Rewind and Reconnoiter: Underestimating the Enemy

Caesar Nafrada and Joseph Caddell

More NATO in the Arctic Could Free the United States Up to Focus on China

Ryan R. Duffy, Jahara Matisek, Jeremy M. McKenzie, and Chad Pillai

In Brief: Europe Reacts to Trump’s Win

Alexander Lanoszka, Ulrike Franke, Ian Bond, and Gesine Weber

Drones, AI, and the Changing Nature of Warfare

Stacie Pettyjohn and Marshall Kosloff

Can the Next President Change U.S. Foreign Policy?

Christopher Preble, Zack Cooper, and Melanie Marlowe

Russian Roulette on the Red Sea

Ari Heistein and Daniel Rakov

Israel’s Oct. 7 Early Warning Failure: Who Is to Blame?

Ehud Eiran, Ofer Guterman, and David Simantov

In Brief: The Conflict Between Israel and Hizballah

Faysal Itani, Michael Koplow, Yael Mizrahi-Arnaud, Oren Barak, and Hanin Ghaddar

In War and Society, Large Language Models Are What We Make of Them

Benjamin Jensen, Yasir Atalan, and Ian Reynolds

In Brief: Is the United States Preparing for War with China?

Gregory Poling, Kristen Gunness, Collin Meisel, and Eric Robinson

China’s Defense Spending: The $700 Billion Distraction

M. Taylor Fravel, George Gilboy, and Eric Heginbotham

Is Everything a Matter of National Security?

Christopher Preble, Zack Cooper, and Melanie Marlowe

In Brief: The Ukrainian Operation Into Kursk

Oxana Shevel, Mark Galeotti, Olga Oliker, Michael A. Reynolds, Sam Bendett, and Vera Mironova

In Brief: Japan’s Defense Posture

Zack Cooper, Sheila Smith, Ryan Ashley, and Kei Koga

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

In Brief: The Venezuelan Presidential Election

Fabiana Perera, Mark Feierstein, Laura Dib, and Ryan Berg

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

Iran’s Election Circus Has Just Begun

Saeid Golkar and Kasra Aarabi

Unraveling China’s Plans for the Middle East

Christopher Preble, Zack Cooper, and Melanie Marlowe

Developing an Economic Security Agenda for NATO

Anna M. Dowd and Dominik Jankowski

Iran’s Nuclear Threshold Challenge

Toby Dalton and Ariel (Eli) Levite

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

In Brief: The U.S.-Chinese Relationship

Collin Meisel, Mike Studeman, Yun Sun, and Rorry Daniels

Haiti: A Best-Case Scenario

Haleigh Bartos, John Chin, and Tyler Ashner

In Brief: Defense Integration of Commercial Space Capabilities

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

Don’t Count on Us: Canada’s Military Unreadiness

Philippe Lagassé and Justin Massie

In Brief: The Terrorist Attack in Moscow

Sara Harmouch, Vera Miranova, and Dmitry Gorenburg

America Needs a Dead Hand More than Ever

Adam Lowther and Curtis McGiffin

The 2024 Annual Threat Assessment

Christopher Preble, Zack Cooper, and Melanie Marlowe

Are the U.S. and Europe Never Ever Getting Back Together?

Zack Cooper, Christopher Preble, and Melanie Marlowe

In Brief: The Death of Alexei Navalny

Mark Galeotti, Andrea Kendall-Taylor, and Maria Snegovaya

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

In Brief: What to Expect from the Russo-Ukrainian War in 2024

Dara Massicot, Dmitry Gorenburg, and Max Bergmann

A Better Cyber Service

Michael Kreuzer

A Conversation with Sen. John Cornyn

Sen. John Cornyn and William Inboden

The Future of Presidential Libraries

Paul Noel Chretien, Tim Naftali, Matthew Connelly, Warren Finch, and Mark Lawrence

Using Technology to Solve the Declassification Problem

Jared Abrams, Ivan Lee, Alex Joel, Ezra Cohen, and Adam Klein

Learning from Real Wars: Gaza and Ukraine

David Barno and Nora Bensahel

The Future of Algorithmic Warfare Part IV: Promise Fulfilled

Scott Cuomo, Benjamin Jensen, and Christopher Whyte

Keeping the Nation’s Secrets

Michael G. Vickers and Stephen Slick

A Misleading Metaphor: The Nuclear “Arms Race”

Matthew Costlow, Robert Peters, and Kyle Balzer

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

Jonathan Caverley, Ethan Kapstein, and Jennifer Kavanagh

Al-Aqsa Storm Heralds the Rise of Non-state Special Operations

Leo Blanken, Ian Rice, and Craig Whiteside

Getting Sporty in Russia’s Arctic

Katarzyna Zysk and Rebecca Pincus

Israel’s 9/11

Adam Klein, Stephen Slick, Paul Edgar, and Simone Ledeen

In Brief: Tensions Between Serbia and Kosovo

Gorana Grgić, Dimitar Bechev, Maja Bjelos, and Helena Ivanov

The Meaning of the Attack on Israel

Bruce Hoffman and Ryan Evans

U.S. Diplomacy After the Russo-Ukrainian War

Chester A. Crocker, Ryan Conner, and Kelly McFarland

Iranian Drone Proliferation is Scaling Up and Turning More Lethal

Nakissa Jahanbani, Muhammad Najjar, Benjamin Johnson, Caleb Benjamin, and Muhammad al-Ubaydi

Revisiting the Hedge Strategy with Renewed Urgency

Michael Brown and Rear Adm. Lorin Selby

Debating FISA Section 702

Joshua Geltzer and Nick Danforth

The Future of Algorithmic Warfare Part III: Stagnation

Benjamin Jensen, Christopher Whyte, and Scott Cuomo

Logistics Interdiction for Taiwan Unification Campaigns

Jacob Maywald, Benjamin Hazen, Edward Salo, and Michael Hugos

Italy’s New Look

Leonardo Palma

In Brief: The Chinese Dismissals

Rorry Daniels, Thomas Shugart, Timothy Heath, Dennis J. Blasko, and Thai-Binh Elston

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

Getting U.S.-Japanese Command and Control Right

Christopher B. Johnstone and Zack Cooper

How Advanced Is Russian-Chinese Military Cooperation?

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

Prove It Before You Use It: Nuclear Retaliation Under Uncertainty

Johnathan Falcone, Jonathan Rodriguez Cefalu, Michael Kneeshaw, and Maarten Bos

China and the Alliance Allergy of Rising Powers

Evan N. Resnick and Hannah Elyse Sworn

How to Avoid a Bad Take on a Hard Target: Analyzing North Korea the Right Way

Markus Garlauskas, Rachel Minyoung Lee, and Jonathan Corrado

Unspoken Assumptions

Francis J. Gavin

The Need to Invest in Long-Range Fires

Josh Portzer and Jonathan Gosselin

Are We Asking Too Much of Cyber?

Erica Lonergan and Michael Poznansky

Turkey’s Elections and Foreign Policy Options

Onur İşçi and Samuel J. Hirst

AI At War

Anthony King

More than a Hobby: Informal Security Assistance to Ukraine

Jahara Matisek, William Reno, and Sam Rosenberg

Technology, Defense, And American-Chinese Competition

Christopher Preble, Zack Cooper, and Melanie Marlowe

Be Skeptical of Reagan’s “October Surprise”

William Inboden and Joseph Ledford

Why The Marines Matter

Joslyn Fleming, Katherine Guthrie, and Colin Smith

Building R2-D2

Mike Pietrucha

Fighting Autocracy Means Fighting Corruption

Daniel J. Henderson and Kelly McFarland

Launch Under Attack: A Sword of Damocles

Natalie Montoya and R. Scott Kemp

Miscalibration of Trust in Human Machine Teaming

John Christianson, Di Cooke, and Courtney Stiles Herdt

One Year of War in Ukraine

Christopher Preble, Zack Cooper, and Melanie Marlowe

What Yemen Needs Now

Kate Kizer and Scott Paul

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

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

Software Defines Tactics

Jason Weiss and Dan Patt

A New Path For Syria’s Kurds

Asli Aydintasbas and Julien Barnes-Dacey

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

Turkey’s Future Drone Carriers

Olli Pekka Suorsa and Brendon J. Cannon

Integrated By Design: Building a Partner Air Force

Ethan Brown and Lt. Col. Jonathan Magill

Military Lessons from the War in Ukraine

Melanie Marlowe, Christopher Preble, and Zack Cooper

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

Cooperation Can Make the NATO Lake a Reality

Michael Jonsson and Robin Häggblom

To Defeat Autocracy, Weaponize Transparency

Garrett Berntsen and Ryan Fedasiuk

Strengthening the Black Sea Grain Agreement Short of War

Michael Petersen and James G. Foggo III

An Alliance Division of Labor in East Asia

Takuya Matsuda and Jaehan Park

Send NATO Troops to Help Stabilize Bosnia and Herzegovina

Leon Hartwell, Hikmet Karčić, and Josephine Mintel

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 D. 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

A Confidence-Building Defense for NATO

Lukas Mengelkamp, Alexander Graef, and Ulrich Kühn

The Changing Character of Combined Arms

Benjamin Jensen and Matthew Strohmeyer

How Strong Is al-Qaeda? A Debate

Daniel Byman and Asfandyar Mir

Dependency Issues: Solving the World’s Open-Source Software Security Problem

John Speed Meyers, Zack Newman, Tom Pike, and Jacqueline Kazil

Keeping the Right Secrets Secret

Zack Cooper, Christopher Preble, and Emily Harding

How Are Putin’s Far-Right Fans in the West Reacting to His War?

Stephanie Foggett, Mollie Saltskog, and Colin Clarke