Category: Topics
208 Articles
- Environment and Biosecurity
The Green Industrial Divide: A Race America Keeps Re-Starting
A fault line of U.S. industrial policy runs through the intersection of national security, climate ambition, and critical infrastructure. The Trump Administration’s industrial…
December 18, 2025
- Technology
The Fujian-class Aircraft Carrier: The PRC’s Challenge to the Indo-Pacific Order
On November 5, 2025, the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) commissioned its most advanced aircraft carrier to date: the Type 003 Fujian. The ceremony was presided over by…
December 11, 2025
- Terrorism & Transnational Threats
Courting Kabul: How India’s Growing Relationship with the Taliban Threatens Regional Counterterrorism
When the United States withdrew its troops from Afghanistan in August 2021, in accordance with the 2020 Doha Agreement, the Western-backed Afghan government quickly collapsed,…
December 9, 2025
- Environment and Biosecurity
A Biotech Blind Spot: If Both Eyes are on the Competition, None are at Home
The United States’ current approach to biotechnology investment and innovation is fragmented and focused on competing with the People’s Republic of China (PRC) thereby relegating…
November 28, 2025
- Geoeconomics & Resource Competition
The United States’ Risky Gamble on Balochistan’s Critical Minerals
The United States and the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) global competition over critical mineral supply chains has arrived in a new destination: Balochistan, Pakistan. The U…
November 23, 2025
- Technology
Exporting the Great Firewall: The CCP’s Exposed Efforts to Spread Digital Authoritarianism
A massive September 2025 leak of data from the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) ‘Great Firewall’ offers the first verifiable technical evidence of how the Chinese Communist…
November 21, 2025
- Technology
Authoritarian Learning: The Russia-PRC Convergence in Ukraine
The war in Ukraine has transformed the drone from a reconnaissance tool into the centerpiece of twenty-first-century warfare. What began as a small-scale improvisation on both…
November 5, 2025
- Defense
U.S. Naval Construction is Adrift: It’s Time to Course-Correct
On October 13, 2025, the U.S. Navy celebrated its 250th anniversary, an occasion as fitting for reflection on its distinguished past as for discussion about its future. As the U.…
October 31, 2025
- Defense
The Collapse of 3.0: Rethinking Marine Amphibious Power in the Indo-Pacific
In March 2025, Marine Corps Commandant General Eric Smith testified before Congress that only 13 of the Corps’ 32 amphibious ships were seaworthy. Deferred maintenance,…
October 29, 2025
- Environment and Biosecurity
Beijing’s Strategic Window in the Russian Arctic
Climate change will radically alter the Arctic landscape, creating new opportunities and liabilities for every Arctic state. Moscow, in particular, views less ice coverage as an…
October 27, 2025