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The Houthi Threat: Is Trump Underestimating One of Iran’s Key Remaining Cards?
The Impact of the Iran Conflict on South Korea: By the Numbers
Where Is Congress?
Iran, Fertilizer, and Food Security: Risks, Impacts, and Policy Responses
Fortifying the Guatemala-Taiwan Partnership for Development
We Are Going Back to the Moon to Stay
The Structural Barriers to Resource Extraction in Antarctica
Why Go Back to the Moon?
Beyond Artemis: Why the Moon Matters for the Future of Space Operations
Cracking the Code on the Lunar Economy
Artemis and the Economics of a Permanent Moonbase
USMCA Review 2026: Six Scenarios for North America’s Future
Europe Needs Bold Economic Action in the Face of the Iran Shock
What the TotalEnergies Deal Means for Energy Investment, Political Risk, and Affordability
Visualizing Iran’s Escalation Strategy
AI and Global Food Security: A Focus on Crop Breeding
Assessing the Air Campaign After Three Weeks: Iran War By the Numbers
Assessing the Air Campaign After Three Weeks: Iran War By the Numbers
“Europe Needs an ASAP Program for Air Defense”: Audio Brief with Max Bergmann
China’s Localization Drive in Semiconductors Gains Impetus from Allied Chip Export Controls
Building Cooperative Frameworks for Subsea Cable Security in the Indo-Pacific
The World Trade Organization’s Fourteenth Ministerial Conference
Redesigning Japan’s Space Security Ecosystem for a Stronger U.S.-Japan Alliance
Iran’s Next Move: How to Counter Tehran’s Multidomain Punishment Campaign
What Are the Implications of the Iran Conflict for Japan?
Demystifying Iranian Cyber Operations in the U.S.-Iran Conflict
Data Is Now the Front Line of Warfare
Could Iran Disrupt the Gulf Countries’ Desalinated Water Supplies?
Iran: Relearning the Importance of Waging a War, Not Just Fighting One
What Is Israel Trying to Accomplish in Lebanon?
“Energy Infrastructure and the Defense Industrial Base”: Audio Brief with Joseph Majkut
How Does Saudi Arabia See the War with Iran?
SBIR and STTR Reauthorization and the Future of Small Business Innovation
Iran’s War Strategy: Don’t Calibrate—Escalate
Abracadabra
Investing in National Assets for Quantum Commercialization
Government as a Demand Creator for the Quantum Industry
Iran War Cost Estimate Update: $11.3 Billion at Day 6, $16.5 Billion at Day 12
Trump May Seize Iran’s Nuclear Stockpile: Why Airstrikes Alone Aren’t Enough
How to Lose a Navy in 10 Days
Nepal’s Election Marks a Generational Break—and a New Strategic Moment in the Himalayas
The War with Iran Threatens Syria’s Recovery
What Can the United States and Israel Accomplish in Iran?
Chokepoint: How the War with Iran Threatens Global Food Security
What Is at Stake in Hungary’s Election?
The Wars After the War: Why Israel and Iran May Keep Fighting
Iran’s Real War Is Against the Global Economy
Unpacking Iran’s Drone Campaign in the Gulf: Early Lessons for Future Drone Warfare
The Iran Conflict Is Sending Oil Prices Soaring—What Happens Next?
Chicken Soup Coming Home to Roost
What Does the New Cyber Strategy Really Mean?
The New Containment Doctrine: How the United States Is Using Trade to Stop Digital Regulation
Alberta Separatism Would Harm Both Canada and the United States
Pioneering Quantum-Supercomputing Integration: U.S. Leadership in the Next Computing Era
“The Power of Innovation: The Strategic Value of China’s High-Tech Drive”: Audio Brief with Scott Kennedy
No One, Not Even Beijing, Is Getting Through the Strait of Hormuz
What Does the Iran War Mean for Global Energy Markets?
The Satellite Encryption Gap: Why Everyday Citizens’ Communications Are at Risk
Russian Crude and India: Here to Stay Amid Middle East Tensions?
$3.7 Billion: Estimated Cost of Epic Fury’s First 100 Hours
From Compliance to Strategy: Rethinking the Role of Human Rights in National Security and Countering Violent Extremism
The Shield of Americas Gathering and an Amplified Strategy to Counter China in the Western Hemisphere
Macron’s Île-Longue Speech: Updating France’s Nuclear Doctrine for a New Era
Why Decapitation Will Not Solve the United States’ Iran Problem
How Will Cyber Warfare Shape the U.S.-Israel Conflict with Iran?
Venezuelans Welcome U.S. Intervention, But Hope for a Rapid Democratic Transition Post-Maduro
A New Era: Space After New START
Cleaning Up the Mess
The Regional Reverberations of the U.S. and Israeli Strikes on Iran
Operation Epic Fury and the Remnants of Iran’s Nuclear Program
If Compute is the New Oil, War in the Gulf Significantly Raises the Stakes
Why Did Pakistan Announce “Open War” Against the Taliban?
USMCA 2026 and Economic Security: The Convergence of Technology, Trade, and National Security
Northwood Declaration: The Future of European Deterrence?
How Europe Can Build Ukraine’s Future Force
How Would Iran Respond to a U.S. Attack?
Criminal Kingpin “El Mencho” Is Dead, What Comes Next?
Industrial Policy Is Back—And Minerals Are at the Center
The Russia-Ukraine War and Global Food Security: Impacts Four Years Later
Revitalizing U.S.-Pacific Ties Through Kava Diplomacy
The Supreme Court’s IEEPA Tariff Ruling and What Comes Next
State of Play: The Global Impact of the SCOTUS Decision on IEEPA Tariffs
Bright Shiny Objects
What the Potomac River Sewage Spill Reveals About U.S. Water Infrastructure
U.S. Military in the Middle East: Numbers Behind Trump’s Threats Against Iran
If Trump Strikes Iran: Mapping the Oil Disruption Scenarios
Transnistria: A Conflict Unfrozen but Not Thawed
Trump Discovers Multilateralism
After Bangladesh Votes: Stability Will Be Earned Through Delivery, Not Declarations
Satellite Imagery Analysis of China’s Alleged 2020 Nuclear Test at Lop Nur
Critical Minerals Ministerial Introduces New International Cooperation Strategy
Understanding Federal Equity Investments in Strategic Companies
“How Russia Is Reshaping Command and Control for AI-Enabled Warfare”: Audio Brief with Kate Bondar
Project Vault: A Minerals Security Backstop
Takaichi Dominates Japan’s Lower House Election
U.S.-India and EU-India Trade Agreements: Who Won?
Takaichi Landslide Shows Limits of Chinese Economic Coercion
Haiti Embarks on Another Rocky Political Transition
India’s New Ambitions on Trade Must Be Paired with Domestic Reform
What Is Next After the Suicide Attack in Pakistan?