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What’s Unusual About Today’s Dual-Use Technologies?

Whether it’s finding our way around with the help of a GPS, sending large files through e-mail, or flying across ...
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We Need Defense Innovators More Than They Need Us

If knowledge is power, we should all be feeling more powerful. The defining trend of our time is the ever-increasing ...
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The Zero Conundrum of Countering Threats

In terms of aircraft accidents, 2014 was the safest year on record for the U.S. Air Force. In the space ...
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Time Makes Right Choice for Person of the Year, but ...

Time magazine recently awarded Person of the Year honors to “the Ebola Fighters.” Bravo…good choice. As I’ve written elsewhere, it is right to ...
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Why We Haven’t Felt the Full Effect of Sequestration Yet

Some believe that sequestration is good. They believe the across-the-board cuts mandated by the Budget Control Act keep spending under ...
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What the War with ISIS Teaches Us About Strategy

Few words are as ubiquitous and amorphous as the word “strategy.? This has certainly been true regarding the U.S. response ...
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Why a War of Attrition Favors Us, Not ISIS

The warning is delivered with an ominous tone: “You are no longer fighting an insurgency. We are an Islamic army, ...
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Why ISIS is More Dangerous than Al-Qaeda

On a hot summer’s afternoon last week, I visited the 9/11 Memorial at the Pentagon. After a day of news ...