July 9, 2024 Emerging Laws and Norms for AI Facial Recognition Technology Laws governing the deployment and use of facial-recognition technology vary widely across the globe. The United States and its Allies and partners should establish and promote human-rights-safeguarding norms.
July 9, 2024 Energy Web Dominance: A Proposal for a Fourth Offset Strategy DARPA’s energy web dominance framework provides a novel perspective on the fundamental character of warfare, revealing new opportunities for optimizing military effects delivery leveraging wireless energy distribution technology breakthroughs.
July 9, 2024 Cyber Red Lines: Government Responses to Cyberattacks on Critical Infrastructure Despite challenges surrounding the term “red line” in the context of gray zone cyber operations, such a threshold must be established to clarify when America will respond to state or nonstate actor cyberattacks.
July 9, 2024 Effective Assurance: A Strategic Imperative A proper understanding of assurance is critical in an age of renewed great power competition, where alliances provide an asymmetric strategic advantage over potential adversaries.
July 9, 2024 Tensions on the Peninsula: Strategic Communication for the US-Northeast Asia Alliance System The US-Northeast Asia alliance system must reassess its strategic messaging in the face of North Korea’s provocations and in alliance military exercises and strive for long-term regional policy stability.
April 3, 2024 Hardwired for Hardware: Congressional Adjustments to the Administration’s Defense Budget Requests, 2016 to 2023 Congress has preferenced programmatic expenditures over personnel and operation and maintenance for the past 8 years. In a time of fiscal austerity, Congress must balance its predilection for hardware with the need to appropriately fund the nonhardware programs and components of the Department.
April 3, 2024 Space and War in Ukraine: Beyond the Satellites International and commercial space information sharing and innovations in terrestrial hardware and software have allowed Ukraine to exceed Russia in the use of space at many levels. The US military can learn lessons from these developments.
April 3, 2024 Asymmetric Warfare in Space: Five Proposals from Chinese Strategic Thought Eastern strategic thinking applied to new challenges posed by the space domain in the development of broader space strategy expands perspectives and improves durability.