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10 May 2022

Surveillance systems and internet rules: Blunting China’s techno-totalitarianism

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Klon Kitchen Source Link Hello, and happy Thursday! On this date in 1961, astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr. made a 15-minute suborbital flight, ...

How the West Was One

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Dr Michael Howell Source Link A world without the US dollar is a near impossible thought. But spurred on by the Russia–Ukraine conflict and ...

Can the Intelligence Community Tell What’s Brewing in Afghanistan?

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REUEL MARC GERECHT Source Link Whenever the United States gets traumatized by the unexpected abroad, discussion inevit ably  start about the...

How AI Would - and Wouldn't - Factor Into a U.S.-Chinese War

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Ryan Fedasiuk Source Link In March, a largely overlooked, 90-page Government Accountability Office study revealed something interesting: Thi...

What the China-Solomon Islands Pact Means for the U.S. and South Pacific

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Zongyuan Zoe Liu Source Link Is China’s deal with the Solomon Islands another sign that it is growing more influential in the South Pacific?...

U.S. Steps Up Diplomacy in Pacific Amid Solomon Islands-China Pact

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Ambassador Judith Cefkin Source Link A leaked draft of a Solomon Islands-China security agreement has led to heightened concern over the isl...

The New Arctic Geopolitics

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Wilfrid Greaves Source Link The Russo-Ukrainian War has altered the trajectory of international cooperation in the circumpolar Arctic. Regar...

How Wars End | War terminations: insights for the Russia-Ukraine War

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Source Link How and when does the Russia-Ukraine war end? HCSS director of research Tim Sweijs and assistant analyst Mattia Bertolini consid...

Elon Musk bets the farm: How the billionaire’s Twitter buy could blow back on Tesla

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Benjamin Powers Source Link Elon Musk may be the world’s richest man, but that doesn’t mean he has a lot of money. With much of his wealth t...

As battle for Ukraine enters a new phase, so does lethal US aid

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VALERIE INSINNA Source Link WASHINGTON: It’s been two months since Russia began its unprovoked invasion in Ukraine , and a new phase of the ...

Army stretches little wings with desert mini-drone swarm tests

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ANDREW EVERSDEN Source Link WASHINGTON: In the middle of the Utah desert, the US Army plans to test the efficacy of swarms of mini-drones t...

Small Drones Are Giving Ukraine an Unprecedented Edge

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Source Link IN THE SNOWY streets of the north Ukrainian town of Trostyanets, the Russian missile system fires rockets every second . Tanks a...

Russian Forces May Soon Be Forced Out of Artillery Range of Kharkiv: Report

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BRENDAN COLE  Source Link Ukrainian forces may soon force Russian troops out of artillery range of Kharkiv, according to an assessment that ...

Could Big Tech Play Peacemaker in Ukraine?

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Ville Korpela Diana Mjeshtri Source Link More than 10 million refugees have been forced to relocate from Ukraine according to the United Na...

US Sends 100+ Phoenix Ghost Drones to Ukraine, Compliments Javelin Anti-Tank Missiles

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KRIS OSBORN Source Link Anti-Tank Guided Missiles, Rocket-Propelled Grenades, helicopter-launched Hellfire Missiles and tank rounds themselv...

For Russia and the West, Ukraine War Is a Study in Supply

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CAITLIN M. KENNEY Source Link Logistics received a moment in the Congressional spotlight on Thursday, as lawmakers praised the U.S. military...

Better weather may shift Russia’s fortunes in Ukraine

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ANDREW SALMON Source Link The widely-heralded, much-feared Russian offensive in the Donbas has in 17 days made slow progress in grabbing key...

The ‘Kalibrization’ of the Russian Fleet

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Commander Joshua Menks and Michael B. Petersen Source Link Russia’s war in Ukraine has once again piqued interest in Moscow’s military, incl...

Good US-China Strategic Competition

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MICHAEL SPENCE Source Link MILAN – It is now widely accepted that the economic and technological relationship between the United States and ...

All the reasons Russia will invade Moldova

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TATSIANA KULAKEVICH Source Link There is growing concern that Moldova and Transnistria could be dragged into Russia’s war against Ukraine. ...

The Character of War Is Constantly Changing Organizations and people who can rapidly and effectively adapt are more likely to prevail.

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Captain Gerard Roncolato Source Link The U.S. Navy and Marine Corps face daunting times, particularly with the return of great power competi...

New White House directive warns of cryptological risks from quantum computers

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JASPREET GILL Source Link WASHINGTON: President Joe Biden today will sign two directives aimed at advancing quantum science , including a me...

US, NATO dangerously aim to destroy Russia’s military

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FRANK LEDWIDGE Source Link Nothing like a coherent strategy emerged from 20 years of NATO’s war in Afghanistan; at best there were long list...

View from the front lines: A Ukrainian commander on what it will take to win the battle for the east

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Nikhil Kumar and Kseniia Lisnycha Source Link Early on Friday, Ukraine said it had recaptured the village of Ruska Lozova, population 5,000...

Fires, explosions and false-flag operations: How war is spilling beyond Ukraine’s borders

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Joshua Keating Source Link Russia accuses Western powers of waging a “proxy war” via Ukraine. President Joe Biden refers to the conflict as...

China’s Xi Proposes Global Security Initiative

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Rajeswari Pillai Rajagopalan Source Link Chinese President Xi Jinping has come up with a new global security proposal questioning implicitly...
9 May 2022

The War in Ukraine: More Western Aid and Fear of Escalation

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Eldad Shavit Shimon Stein Source Link A high-level American visit to Kyiv, the first since the war began, by Secretary of State Antony Blink...

China’s Troubling New Military Strategy Is Coming Into View

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Jonah Blank Source Link The last time the outside world paid much attention to the Solomon Islands was in 1943: More U.S. troops lost their ...

The consequences of the war in Ukraine will be far-reaching

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Nataliya Katser-Buchkovska Source Link The Russian invasion into Ukraine will have far reaching consequences in a variety of areas: the situ...

How Russia's Military Leadership Was Decapitated Thanks to U.S. Intel

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JACK DUTTON  Source Link Senior U.S. officials have said that American intelligence about Russian military units has allowed Ukrainians to t...

Securing Europe’s future beyond energy: Addressing its corporate and technology gap

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Sven Smit, Magnus Tyreman, Jan Mischke, Philipp Ernst Source Link European leaders have shown great resolve in their initial response at sca...

Russia’s War Has Created a Power Vacuum in Europe

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Jakub Grygiel Source Link At the beginning of 2022, the future of Europe looked to be in the hands of Berlin and Moscow. They were becoming ...

Opportunities for Increased Multilateral Engagement with B3W

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Conor M. Savoy,  Shannon McKeown Source Link As the world continues to rapidly digitize and grapples with the short- and long-term impacts o...

QUICKSINK: The Air Force Will Soon Be Destroying Ships from Above

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Kris Osborn Source Link An Air Force F-15E Strike Eagle destroyed a “full-scale” surface vessel in the Gulf of Mexico during a demonstration...

A Devastating Weapon in Short Supply: Lockheed Martin to Expand Javelin Production

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Caleb Larson Source Link American Javelin anti-tank missiles have made all the difference on the battlefield in Ukraine. But now, the embatt...