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Researchers Find Training Gaps Impacting Maritime Cybersecurity Readiness
Whether it’s a fire or a flood, a ship’s crew can only rely on itself and its training in emergencies at sea. The same is true for crews facing digital threats on oil tankers, cargo ships, and other commercial vessels.
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Why Iran Targeted Amazon Data Centers and What That Does – and Doesn’t – Change About Warfare
It seems likely that as the use of AI tools and other cloud-based resources continues to grow in importance for countries around the world, commercial data centers will be targets in future conflicts.
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Wondering Where China’s Cyber Effort Will Go Next? Just Read the Five-Year Plan
Adversaries sometimes declare strategic priorities, yet cyber incidents that align with them are not assessed accordingly. We should in fact be guarding against intrusions before they happen by taking note of foreign and industrial policies that indicate where they’re likely to concentrate.
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Why Hasn’t the U.S. Military Used Force to Secure the Strait of Hormuz?
To make the strait safe for shipping, there is a need to secure not just the water, but the land on either side of it. And this would likely require ground forces – or perhaps raiding parties on Iran’s coastline – which would be complicated and risky for the US military. Securing shipping would require a significant number of naval ships.
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Maritime Dimensions of the West Asia War
Despite the USs possessing overwhelming superiority over Iran in the naval domain, it has been unable to deter or prevent Iranian disruption of maritime traffic in the Strait of Hormuz. Iran’s selective restrictions on transit showcase how geopolitical alignments influence commercial navigation and international trade flows.
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FCC Chair Carr’s Threats to Punish Broadcasters Are Unconstitutional
FCC’s chairman Brendan Carr’s recent threats — that the FCC’s “public interest” standard allows him to revoke the licenses of broadcasters who publish news that is unflattering to the government — are unconstitutional efforts to coerce news coverage that favors President Donald Trump.
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EU and U.S. Critical-Minerals Strategies: Same Goal, Different Methods
The United States and the European Union are both working to reduce their dependence on China for critical minerals, but they’re taking markedly different approaches. As both powers pursue critical-mineral independence through different means, the EU may struggle to keep up with the US’s more assertive policy.
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Utah Republicans See Storing Nuclear Waste as a “Once in a Lifetime Opportunity”
Some think a Trump administration plan is a chance to boost communities that hemorrhaged jobs after coal plants closed. The state is exploring whether to become a solution — by storing nuclear waste in the massive salt deposit in Millard County, a rural part of the state with a long history of meeting the West’s energy needs.
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The Chokepoint We Missed: Sulfur, Hormuz, and the Threats to Military Readiness
The cascading effects of disrupted maritime chokepoints are no longer the subject of simulations; they are an active crisis.
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Expert Believes Norwegian Minerals Could Make Europe Less Dependent on China
At the Fen Complex in southern Norway lies Europe’s largest deposit of rare earth elements, according to a report from Rare Earths Norway. But this is not a ‘quick-fix,’ according experts.
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Anthropic Supply Chain Risk Designation Could Chill Innovation, Experts Say
Anthropic is the first company in the U.S. to be designated a supply chain risk, an unprecedented move that could change the power balance between Silicon Valley and the federal government.
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Trump Is Forcing Coal Plants to Stay Open. It Could Cost Customers Billions.
In an unprecedented use of federal authority, President Donald Trump’s administration has invoked emergency powers to force a series of retiring coal plants to stay open. Utilities, states and grid operators have said the aging plants are expensive, in bad repair and no longer needed to meet regional energy needs. But Trump is determined to save the dwindling coal industry — an expensive move resulting in billions of dollars in added costs for customers in dozens of states.
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China’s Export Controls Threaten U.S. Interceptors During Conflict with Iran
Neodymium and samarium may sound like something from a Hollywood superhero film, but they aren’t. These obscure elements drive modern tech and are buried deep inside modern missile systems, and they give China a quiet yet powerful lever over the United States in the ongoing conflict with Iran.
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FCC Threats and the Fog of War: The Government Cannot Be the Arbiter of Truth
After President Trump’s accused several news organizations of being “Fake News Media” for “terrible reporting” on the Iran conflict, FCC Chairman Brendan Carr threatened that the licenses of news organizations would be at risk if they reported what the administration regarded as “misinformation.” This episode should remind Americans that letting the government decide what information may be shared and what counts as truth is a dangerous game.
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Cloud to Ground: Iran Puts Foreign Data Centers on the Front Line
When Iranian drones struck hyperscale cloud data-center facilities in the United Arab Emirates and damaged infrastructure near Bahrain on 1 March, they did not just target military bases. They also targeted server farms. That distinction matters more than it might appear.
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The long view
Bookshelf: The Waning Dominance of U.S. Dollar
Perhaps the greatest threat to the dominance of the dollar may come from the US itself. US government debt is basically ‘out of control’, representing 120 percent of GDP, and neither political party has a serious plan to bring it back under control.
A Turning Point: U.S. Recognizes Agriculture as a Domain of Defense
The US has legitimized the role of food supply in national defense. It has recognized that in a world of rupture, a nation that cannot feed itself cannot defend itself. A new policy effectively ends the era of agriculture functioning solely as a commercial sector.