• How to Manage Escalation with Nuclear Adversaries Like China

    Chinese leaders fled Beijing in October 1969, as a nuclear attack from the Soviet Union seemed imminent. They were on the precipice of nuclear war owing to a remarkable series of missteps and miscommunications. The crisis of 1969 holds some important lessons for U.S. military planners as they think through how a future war with China could unfold. It needs a theory of victory that explains not just how it plans to win, but how it plans to win without triggering a nuclear war.

  • Five Disinformation Tactics Russia Is Using to Try to Influence the U.S. Election

    The White House’s recent exposure of Russian attempts to influence this year’s U.S. presidential election will come as little surprise to anyone who followed disinformation tactics during the last U.S. election. The practices alleged by DOJ has become standard practice in Russian attempts to influence international audiences.

  • ICE Incapable of Monitoring Unaccompanied Minors Released into U.S.: IG

    The Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security issued a management alert to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to make it aware of an urgent issue: ICE is incapable of monitoring hundreds of thousands of unaccompanied children (UACs) released into the country.

  • Will German Police Get to Do Secret House Searches?

    Germany’s Federal Criminal Police Office wants to secretly break into homes as part of anti-terrorism measures. That is currently prohibited, but the interior minister has far-reaching plans.

  • South Korea and Nuclear Weapons

    The constant threat of North Korean aggression and fears of abandonment by the United States of its security commitment to South Korea have been the primary reasons for Seoul’s nuclear ambitions. More recently, the deepening military alliance between North Korea and Russia has raised serious concerns in South Korea.

  • U.S. Adversaries Step Up Efforts to Influence Results of Next Election

    Russia, Iran and China are ramping up efforts to impact the outcome of the U.S. presidential election and down-ballot races, targeting American voters with an expanding array of sophisticated influence operations.

  • Protecting Voters and Election Workers from Armed Intimidation

    Although the United States is no stranger to political violence, our elections in the 21st century have been safe and secure. Rare events of violence closely covered by the media, but in reality, voter suppression by intimidation is much more likely to occur. While guns have rarely been used in elections to commit violent acts, they are increasingly being wielded as tools of intimidation.

  • The Accelerationists’ App: How Telegram Became the “Center of Gravity” for a New Breed of Domestic Terrorists

    From attempting to incite racially motivated violence to encouraging attacks on critical infrastructure, the alleged crimes planned and advertised by extremists on Telegram go far beyond the charges facing CEO Pavel Durov.

  • Social Media Manipulation in the Era of AI

    China is not the only U.S. adversary exploring the potential propaganda gold mine that AI has opened. But China provides a useful case study, in part because its disinformation efforts seem to be getting bolder.

  • Getting Economic Security Right

    National security policymakers are understandably worried about economic risks, but they shouldn’t lose sight of other national interests.

  • The Country’s Biggest Ghost Gun Manufacturer Has Shuttered

    As its products increasingly turned up at crime scenes, Polymer80 drew scrutiny from law enforcement and policymakers.

  • Defense Department Should Secure Access to Advanced Semiconductor Technologies

    A new, multipronged strategy is needed for the U.S. Department of Defense to secure access to advanced semiconductor technologies, one of the agency’s defining challenges, says a new report. DOD should invest in leap-ahead semiconductor technologies, work to reshore production capabilities, and strengthen industry and interagency engagement, says a new report.

  • US Seeks to Reassure Voters That Presidential Election Will Be Safe

    Top U.S. election security officials are asking American voters to tune out the noise and reject what they describe as unfounded claims that the coming presidential election will be rigged. The effort to reassure voters follows the U.S. intelligence community’s warning that U.S. adversaries, led by Russia, Iran and China, are seeking to meddle with the November election. These adversaries have been conducting influence operations or disinformation campaigns designed to sow doubt about the U.S. election process.

  • No, Local Election Officials Can’t Block Certification of Results – There Are Plenty of Legal Safeguards

    Some local election officials have refused to certify election results in the past few years, and worries abound that election officials might subvert the results of the 2024 presidential election by refusing to certify the results. But there isn’t one weird trick to steal a presidential election. And there are ample safeguards to ensure ballots are tabulated accurately and election results are certified in a timely manner.

  • Aide to Cuomo, Hochul Was a Chinese Agent

    In a 65-page federal indictment unsealed last week, prosecutor described how Linda Sun, 40, of Manhasset, Long Island, who worked for the NY State government for 14 years, serving as an aide to New York’s former governor Andrew Cuomo and current governor Kathy Hochul, received money and other benefits in exchange for providing help to the Peoples’s Republic of China and its Communist Party.