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Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technology
- U.S. Space Policy: From Cold War Competition to Commercial Partnership
- The Pentagon’s Effort to Balance AI Power and Principles
- The Pentagon’s Gamble: How JADC2 Aims to Revolutionize Modern Warfare
- Facial Recognition Technology: How It Works, Where It’s Used, and What It Means for Privacy
- Why America’s National Security Council Obsesses Over Microchips
Great Power Competition
- Why America’s National Security Council Obsesses Over Microchips
- A New Space Race: How America, China, and Russia Are Racing for the Moon and Mars
- U.S. Space Policy: From Cold War Competition to Commercial Partnership
- How Cold War Rivalry Still Shapes America’s Space Policy Today
- Why It Took Years to Resolve the U.S.-China TikTok Deal
Space Policy
- The National Space Policy: How America Plans to Lead the Final Frontier
- Jammed Signals & Hacked Satellites: Threats in Space the U.S. is Fighting
- Who Sits on the National Space Council?
- National Security vs. Scientific Exploration: The National Space Council’s Balancing Act
- Who Owns the Moon? A Guide to Space Property Rights
All Articles on Emerging Issues
The Proposed 2025 Ukraine Peace Deal: How NATO’s Security Architecture Is Being Rewritten
The geopolitical map of Europe is being redrawn. Not by the shifting frontlines of the Donbas, but by the pen…
Why the U.S., Russia, and China Are Ramping Up Nuclear Testing Activities
The specter of nuclear testing—a practice most Americans associate with Cold War-era footage of mushroom clouds—has returned to the headlines…
Why It Took Years to Resolve the U.S.-China TikTok Deal
The multiyear effort by the United States to force Chinese company ByteDance to sell TikTok represents a true geopolitical drama…
How Cold War Rivalry Still Shapes America’s Space Policy Today
From the mission of the U.S. Space Force to NASA's ambitious return to the Moon, American space policy remains profoundly…
U.S. Space Policy: From Cold War Competition to Commercial Partnership
From the Cold War panic that birthed NASA to the modern establishment of the U.S. Space Force and the rise…
National Security vs. Scientific Exploration: The National Space Council’s Balancing Act
Outer space has transformed from a frontier of pure exploration into a critical domain for American prosperity and security. U.S.…
Jammed Signals & Hacked Satellites: Threats in Space the U.S. is Fighting
From checking the morning weather on your phone to GPS guiding your commute, daily life is powered by invisible satellites…
America’s Space Shield: How Satellites Protect National Security
High above Earth, moving at thousands of miles per hour, an unseen shield protects the United States. This shield consists…