The U.S. administration is pursuing its latest strategy: a naval blockade combined with aggressive “Outcast” sanctions, aiming to strangle the Iranian economy, force the regime to its knees, and compel it to return to negotiations on American terms. Simultaneously, Washington is deploying additional military assets to the region. This isContinue Reading
The current landmine incident in the Demilitarized Zone of the Korean Peninsula could escalate into conflict on the Korean Peninsula. South Korea and the United Nations Command said North Korea violated the Korean War armistice following a landmine blast on September 21 in the South Korean side of the DMZ,Continue Reading
Speaking in Shanghai on July 17, Xi Jinping offered the world a vision of AI “for the positive, for good and for humanity.” He called for open source, openness, and sharing. He cautioned against stretching national security to cover the field. And he announced that over the next five yearsContinue Reading
About one month before Election Day, Americans deserve to know how their government is protecting elections from foreign threats. The Pentagon’s recent directive assigns military intelligence and cyber capabilities to that mission. I welcome that commitment. Americans also need to understand how it fits into the national effort and howContinue Reading
The U.S. must set dominance of global AI sector as a strategic economic and national security priority. If the PRC becomes the dominant provider of AI infrastructure and LLM model development, this will have dire consequences for the U.S. and allow the PRC to embed itself in many foreign countries,Continue Reading
“It’s worth saying again so that the fake news understands it. We are no longer the woke department or the weak department. Simple translation of that: No fanny, no fatties, no beardos, no weirdos, no wimps, no radicals, just warriors — just tough, ready, committed troops. The War Department, asContinue Reading
On September 30, at Quantico, the Secretary of War announced a four-star command for autonomous warfare. The memorandum behind it is two pages long. It gives two officials 30 days to produce a plan and sets October 1, 2027, as the day the Autonomous Warfare Command stands up. “We doContinue Reading
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian’s speech at the United Nations did not mention Iran’s history of terrorism and the thousands of innocent victims killed, or the imprisonment and killing of thousands of its own people who were peacefully protesting, or the repeated enrichment of uranium at levels close to 90% purityContinue Reading
My friends and family often ask me why Russia behaves so offensively. They are baffled by Russia’s lack of humanity and Moscow’s actions such as hiring assassins, launching drones at innocents, and planning economic sabotage against international companies. While not an excuse, just an explanation, scholars of Russia understand theContinue Reading
The Intelligence Community (IC) has an opportunity now to influence how we talk about, and thus how we approach, AI use in our work by formally adopting the nomenclature “AI-in-the-Loop” rather than “Human-in-the-Loop.” The problem with human-in-the-loop is that it subordinates the human to AI; the term carries a built-inContinue Reading
Nobel laureate Geoffrey Hinton walked out of a closed-door Capitol Hill briefing on September 17 and gave lawmakers a deadline. “Maybe a year, but not much more than a year,” he told reporters, describing how long Congress has before artificial intelligence moves beyond meaningful human control. It’s not an outlierContinue Reading
Two years after Israel killed Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah is weaker but not finished. WaTaawanou, a crowdfunded charity outside Hezbollah’s formal hierarchy, exemplifies one way Hezbollah endures: outsourcing part of the cost of sustaining – and retaining – its Shiite base. Israel eliminated its seniormost military and political leadership, over 5,000Continue Reading
The headline number from the Coupang data breach — more than 33 million user accounts — sounds like a major incident that implies a catastrophic failure of one of South Korea’s most important company’s cybersecurity programs. South Korea’s Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC) measures an incident by the “exposure andContinue Reading