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Editor’s note: This is the first article in a two-part series exploring additive manufacturing. The Pentagon has poured unprecedented funds into additive manufacturing as a potential game-changer for defense production. For example, in fiscal year 2024, the Department of Defense allocated roughly $800 million for additive, which was a 166% increase from the prior year. By FY2...

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What happens when the United States tries to build a missile shield so ambitious that Russia and China start dreaming up weapons that no defense can stop? Two demonstrations of Russian weapons pageantry this fall offered a clear, if unsettling, glimpse of that future as President Vladimir Putin proudly showcased systems built to sidestep American defenses. On Oct. 26, Putin c...

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In 2018, Andrew Grotto wrote, “Cyber Security Derailed? Recommendations for Smarter Investments in Infrastructure,” where he argued that as the United States modernizes its infrastructure and transportation networks, cybersecurity measures to protect them must be front and center. Seven years later, amidst a changing security landscape, we asked Andrew to revisit his argument...

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Foreign policy communities in open societies love to debate their own relevance. Analysts quarrel over whether their insights inform statecraft or merely decorate it, and governments alternately embrace and ignore them depending on the moment. One might assume that in China this dynamic hardly exists, that an authoritarian system simply compels its experts to fall in line and...

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The Russo-Ukrainian War has elevated the global importance of the Black Sea region and demonstrated the wide-ranging impacts that conflict there can have on the world. As the sea’s littoral states struggle to cope with international, regional, and domestic challenges, we asked five experts to offer insights into what events or trends to watch in the region over the next year....

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