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By Seth G. Jones - America is rapidly losing the ability to deter China in the Taiwan Strait and elsewhere due to a weak defense industrial base. The Trump administration can revitalize this base by increasing procurement funds, making defense systems critical for warfighting and deterrence in Asia a priority, and cutting excessive contracting regulations. Read More
By Warren P. Strobel and Brett Forrest - The Pentagon relies on space systems for almost everything it does: collecting and disseminating intelligence to assist with troop and ship movements, communicating, and finding adversary battle formations and targeting them. Being blinded in space, if only partially or momentarily, could have catastrophic consequences for U.S. military and intelligence operations. U.S. adversaries, especially China, have seized on these vulnerabilities. According to Space Force officials, China now has nearly 500 intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance satellites operating in space, which can detect aircraft carriers, air wings and ground forces. Nearly half of China’s intelligence...
By J.D. Crouch II - To be effective, the Golden Dome must cover multiple domains: space, air, land and sea. The architecture to build it is already within reach—modeled decades ago, proven technically sound, and now economically and operationally viable. We don’t have to wait for a breakthrough. We already have the skills and tools to build a strong missile-defense system. We need only the political will to turn it into reality. Read More
By Aaron Ginn - Generative artificial intelligence isn’t a trend; it’s the backbone of the next industrial era. Countries are racing to build the full AI stack: data centers, chips, power and platforms. On his recent trip to the Middle East, President Trump signed deals to export AI chips to Persian Gulf states, including Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar, in exchange for more than $1 trillion in investments in the U.S. economy, largely in AI infrastructure. The deals signify a shift from the Biden administration’s AI Diffusion Rule, which sought to regulate the export of American-made AI...
By Amb. Henry Cooper - The Union of Concerned Scientists backed the congressional opposition that sharply curtailed SDI efforts, limiting development of U.S. homeland defense to the most costly, least effective defenses: ground-based interceptors. This also canceled development of the most cost-effective defenses, those based in space, while claiming that such defenses would be excessively expensive, contrary to exhaustive technical and cost studies. Read More
By Kate B. Odell - Is America prepared for the new way of war? “At every level, I think, our conception of military power, and the industrial base that we’ve been optimizing to build it, is just systemically wrong,” says Christian Brose, ... Anduril’s inexpensive cruise missiles, unmanned wingmen for fighter jets, and other technology could be crucial to U.S. victory in a future conflict... America needs military power that is “mass-producible, that is adaptable, that is scalable and that is fundamentally replaceable... The real U.S. defense challenge is injecting into the defense base “more of the American capitalist system...