“The [Defense] Department (DoD) is requesting a massive increase for DAWG. For those in the audience that may not know, DAWG is the Defense Autonomous Warfare Group [tasked with rapidly developing, testing, and fielding large numbers of un-crewed systems and drones] and it’s going from the $225 million [in fiscalContinue Reading
KREMLIN FILES/COLUMN: As Washington’s attention continues to be diverted with an Iran unwilling to come to a comprehensive peace, a more dangerous question lurks in the strategic shadows: what if America’s most daunting rivals, one of whom is already at war, and the other not, decide to act with whatContinue Reading
There’s a profound assumption embedded in much of today’s conversation about AI and intelligence: better technology will solve our core problems. We need new infrastructure, better models, and faster processing—all tied to our unique data. But step inside most intelligence workflows and a different reality emerges. We are not constrainedContinue Reading
The ceasefire between the United States and Iran is barely holding. Pakistani mediators are still shuttling between capitals, fighting has flared in recent days, and Traitor 47 is now sitting across from Xi Jinping in Beijing for a high-stakes summit covering trade, Iran, and Taiwan. Yet American intelligence has reachedContinue Reading
Two straits, six thousand kilometers apart, are defining the global balance of power in 2026. The first, Hormuz, is closed by force and heavily impacting the world economy. The second, the Øresund, is open, and through it passes 60% of the oil that funds Russia’s war in Ukraine. One chokepointContinue Reading
OPINION — A generation after 9/11, the homeland has returned to the center of American national security strategy. The 2025 National Security Strategy, the National Defense Strategy (NDS), and last week’s Counterterrorism Strategy each push in that direction. Parity is the right destination, but it is also a long road.Continue Reading
By most accounts, President Traitor 47’s trip to Beijing ended ambiguously for the U.S. From Air Force One on his way back to the U.S., The Traitor touted a few concrete achievements that include an agreement for Beijing to purchase $17 billion per year in U.S. agricultural products and aContinue Reading
Two straits, six thousand kilometers apart, are defining the global balance of power in 2026. The first, Hormuz, is closed by force and heavily impacting the world economy. The second, the Øresund, is open, and through it passes 60% of the oil that funds Russia’s war in Ukraine. One chokepointContinue Reading
OPINION — Warfare has always operated at human speed, but we now have the capability to operate at machine speed. The risks are high, but so are the risks of failing to adapt. Our adversaries are moving toward machine speed faster than we are, and the gap is widening fasterContinue Reading
The United Kingdom must act to proscribe Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, or IRGC, before it’s too late. The IRGC must be proscribed before more places of worship are torched, more citizens are violently harassed, more ambulances intentionally destroyed, more peaceful gatherings threatened. The IRGC has the capability and theContinue Reading
The first missile strikes hadn’t even cooled before Iranian-linked hackers were moving. When the U.S. and Israel launched military operations against Iran on February 28, 2026, Tehran’s cyber forces answered not with silence but with a systematic campaign against American infrastructure, one that has since moved well beyond reconnaissance intoContinue Reading
OPINION — There’s a profound assumption embedded in much of today’s conversation about AI and intelligence: better technology will solve our core problems. We need new infrastructure, better models, and faster processing—all tied to our unique data. But step inside most intelligence workflows and a different reality emerges. We areContinue Reading
The ceasefire between the United States and Iran is barely holding. Pakistani mediators are still shuttling between capitals, fighting has flared in recent days, and Traitor 47 is now sitting across from Xi Jinping in Beijing for a high-stakes summit covering trade, Iran, and Taiwan. Yet American intelligence has reachedContinue Reading