Global News of Interest
A collection of weekly must-read external news, reports and insights
The Arctic Great Game Won’t Be Won in U.S. Shipyards
Thanks to global warming, there is less ice at the top of the world. And less ice, paradoxically, means a surge in demand for icebreakers, the specialty ships that are…
How America lost its global connectivity Lead and why the future depends on getting it back
It could be a boat anchor that kicks off the invasion of Taiwan, not a bullet. The thousands of miles of sub-sea cables are what make everything function — not…
North Korean Spies Are Infiltrating U.S. Companies Through IT Jobs
When cybersecurity company KnowBe4 was filling a remote IT job in July, it hired a highly skilled applicant who gave his name as Kyle and spoke accented English. He asked…
Air Force going ‘line by line’ to bring down nuclear missile costs
The U.S. Air Force “underestimated” the complexity of building a sprawling network of launch centers and other ground infrastructure for its next nuclear missile, which led to severe projected cost overruns,…
Biden Approved Secret Nuclear Strategy Refocusing on Chinese Threat
President Biden approved in March a highly classified nuclear strategic plan for the United States that, for the first time, reorients America’s deterrent strategy to focus on China’s rapid expansion…
BENS Eisenhower Award Recipient Gina Raimondo Has Reshaped the Commerce Department for Technological Competition with China.
The U.S. secretary of commerce is recovering from a fractured tailbone, but she doesn’t know how it happened.
Iranian Military Official Hints Strike on Israel May Be Delayed
A senior Iranian military official said on Tuesday that retaliation against Israel over the killing of a Hamas leader in Tehran may be long in coming and take any number…
Why Is the U.S. Defense Industrial Base So Isolated from the U.S. Economy?
In April 2022, Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks expressed concern about the “substantial decline” in competition within the U.S. defense industrial base. A February 2022 study by the Department of Defense (DOD)…
Cyber Effects in Warfare: Categorizing the Where, What, and Why
For decades, military practitioners and academics have come up with theories, evidence, and examples that indicate that offensive cyber operations might revolutionize modern warfare. Others have made an equally impressive…
‘Unit X’ Review: Taking Tech Into Battle
When Raj Shah was an F-16 pilot in 2006 flying missions along the Iraq-Iran border, he discovered that the multimillion-dollar fighter’s navigation system was so out of date that it…