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The War Before the War Has Already Begun

There are 65 active state-based conflicts in the world today, according to the Uppsala Conflict Data Program. That is not 65 separate crises. It is 65 living laboratories.The contest that matters is ...
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Transparency Matters: Inside Canada's UFO Files

Disclosing Government Files on What Is Happening in Our SkiesBy Chris A. Rutkowski / Dundurm PressReviewed by: Jean-Thomas NicoleThe Reviewer — Jean-Thomas Nicole is a Policy Advisor with Public ...
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America's Empty CT Chair

The world's counterterrorism chiefs are meeting in New York this week. We brought a list of demands and not much else.A plot ...
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When the Caller Knows Your Name: Cyber Fraud, Banks, and What America Can Do About It

Did you authorize a $2,400 transfer? Reply NO to stop it.” You reply, and seconds later a calm “fraud agent” calls, knows ...
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Congress Questions Pentagon Spending—and the Future of Trump’s Battleship

I’m deeply concerned that the Presidential proposal for $350 billion mandatory funding [to be carried in a reconciliation bill and not an appropriations bill] for defense will have no Appropriations ...
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What Iran Wants and How It Can Still Fight

Amid fragile talks aimed at ending the war, former National Intelligence Manager for Iran Norm Roule explains why diplomacy ...
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Cuba’s New Spy Array Raises Concerns for U.S. Security

On 18 June, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) researchers released a new study that says Cuba has completed construction of a major signals intelligence antenna array at its ...
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From Bombing Iran to Negotiating: Trump Explains His Red Line

I had to stop them [the Iranians] because if they had a nuclear weapon, they would use it. And you want to see bedlam, let them blow up a couple of cities someplace, like they would've blown up Israel ...
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Why One Former CIA Executive Never Stopped Playing

When I was three years old, I fell in love with the violin thanks to an unlikely duet between Itzhak Perlman and a grumpy green Muppet. Watching Perlman’s bow dance across the strings on Sesame Street ...
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Dr. Arvid Bell

Dr. Arvid Bell is Co-Founder and CEO of Anadyr Horizon. He previously served as a Lecturer on Government at Harvard ...
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A Historic Summit between China and North Korea

There was no absence of Chinese and North Korean media coverage of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to North Korea for meetings with Chairman Kim Jong Un. Mr. Xi’s last visit was in 2019, and what ...
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Don’t Permit Iran to Enrich Uranium

Ideally, Iran should not be permitted to enrich uranium, even at the 3.67% low enriched uranium level, enough for nuclear reactors to generate electricity, not a nuclear explosion. The Treaty on the ...