When export controls are seen as a tool to limit competitors’ technology advancements, they can have unintended consequences. Such is the case for quantum technologies, where export controls accelerate China’s localized quantum supply chain.
To reduce the risks relating to contested logistics in the Indo-Pacific, the U.S. Air Force should consider deepening maintenance and repair cooperation with Japan—leveraging its industrial strength to build a more resilient, forward-positioned sustainment capability.
The DOD needs AI-enabled military capabilities to shore up deterrence and warfighting. Yet it lacks tools to predict the accuracy and robustness of the algorithms powering such capabilities, risking both military effectiveness and law-of-war compliance.
China’s extensive influence at ports in Latin America and the Caribbean has come under immense scrutiny. This report analyzes 37 port projects and provides a new method for assessing their relative risk.
A survey of close allies on defense industrial cooperation revealed a consistent desire to partner with and procure from the United States. Complex regulations and persistent cultural challenges limit the partnerships and complicate U.S. defense sales.
After the UK’s newly published Strategic Defence Review took aim at Russia, Moscow’s response showed that their understanding of us has some way to go.
In the early hours of June 18, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei declared that the battle against “the terrorist Zionist regime” had begun. The Iranian General Staff announced a shift from “deterrent” strikes to “punitive” operations — an escalation prompted by Israel’s ongoing offensive, launched on June 13, which officially targets Iran’s nuclear program but has eliminated key military commanders and destroyed air defense systems.
This conference report covers discussions on the role of the insurance sector in maritime sanctions, strategies for enhancing flag state accountability, and enhancing the targeting of the network of enablers supporting maritime sanctions evasion.
The SDR has re-emphasised the centrality of space to the country and UK Armed Forces.
This Whitehall Report takes bottom-up perceptions of violence as a starting point for analysing northern Nigeria’s threat landscape, exploring how organised crime, terrorism and other forms of insecurity are perceived at the subnational and local level.
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