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Global Risks Heating Up
1+ day, 11+ hour ago (148+ words) Welcome to The Adversarial. Every other week, we’ll provide you with expert analysis on America’s greatest challengers: China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, and jihadists. Read more below.***IranThe U.S.-Iranian ceasefire agreed in April began deteriorating — and the Memorandum…...
Before a Cyber Force, Fix Cyber Governance
1+ day, 21+ hour ago (1426+ words) Let’s not start picking out uniforms just yet. The chorus calling for a Cyber Force continues to grow by the day, but the debate has its priorities backward. In June, an amendment from Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) calling for the…...
Chaotic Progress: European NATO’s Quest for Stronger Defense
2+ day, 8+ hour ago (154+ words) In 2024, Max Bergmann wrote, “NATO Missed a Chance to Transform Itself,” where he argued NATO’s leadership needs to facilitate a strong European pillar of the alliance through structural reforms in European institutions. Two years later, we asked Max to revisit…...
The Importance of the Invasion of Sicily
2+ day, 21+ hour ago (449+ words) Those lessons reach beyond amphibious tactics: a coalition that held unified command on paper but not in practice, a joint/combined staff that planned brilliantly for the landing and not at all for the enemy’s reaction and exit, and an…...
America Needs an Off-Ramp Between Doing Nothing and Shutting AI Down
2+ day, 20+ hour ago (1099+ words) War on the Rocks When the world's at stake, National security. For insiders. By insiders. Join War on the Rocks and gain access to content trusted by policymakers, military leaders, and strategic thinkers worldwide. America Needs an Off-Ramp Between Doing…...
The King of Cool: Mobile Refrigeration and the Remaking of Global Logistics
2+ day, 21+ hour ago (339+ words) The beginning of the 20th century introduced consumer cars, then trucks, to the American market. Prior to Jones’ invention, goods transportation either occurred without any temperature regulation, where temperatures soared, or required ice to cool the vehicle’s interior. Ice, however, is…...
Total War on Taipei: China Explores Elevating Cognitive Effects into Its Vision of Warfare
3+ day, 21+ hour ago (225+ words) Most public U.S. defense analysis and wargames focus on modeling kinetic exchanges during a military blockade or invasion of Taiwan. Studies on Taiwan’s will to fight rely on survey data of respondents imagining how they may react in a future conflict....
How Ukraine Put Russia on the Backfoot
4+ day, 10+ hour ago (200+ words) Ukraine’s expanding use of drones at all ranges has changed the war’s momentum. This episode examines how Kyiv is reaching deeper into Russian territory, disrupting operations and logistics as well as energy infrastructure. How is Russia adapting (or not)? Can…...
How the War with Iran is Shaping Key U.S. Relations Beyond the Middle East
4+ day, 11+ hour ago (49+ words) War on the Rocks When the world's at stake, National security. For insiders. By insiders. Join War on the Rocks and gain access to content trusted by policymakers, military leaders, and strategic thinkers worldwide....
Rebuilding America's Critical Minerals Base
4+ day, 20+ hour ago (170+ words) There’s a clear consensus that America hollowed out its critical minerals base. How to rebuild it is less settled. Alex Grant of Magrathea Metals and Wes Spurlock of Principal Mineral join Jonathan to discuss the processing technology, labor force, and…...