Tucked into a Sept. 10, 1998, intelligence report sent to President Bill Clinton’s White House was a warning that, more than a quarter-century later, reads with striking prescience. A CIA analyst wrote
As the global energy transition accelerates and countries increasingly turn toward nuclear power to meet rising electricity demand, a troubling question is gaining urgency: who pays when nuclear systems fail? With the
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A new theoretical framework published in CTC Sentinel, a regular publication of the Combating Terrorism Center, argues that the dominant ways scholars and policymakers understand artificial intelligence and terrorism are no longer
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NATO faces “unacceptable” delays of up to seven years for key military equipment including tanks, fighter jets, and Patriot air defence systems, as decades of neglect in defence manufacturing leave member states
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A new U.S. military concept aimed at linking the capabilities of key Asian allies into a single, networked force is drawing attention across the Indo-Pacific, signaling a shift toward deeper coordination in
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Four months after returning home, the nightmare has not ended for Chiedza, a 33-year-old Zimbabwean mother of two who was trafficked to Myanmar and forced into online fraud. What she believed was
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A powerful explosion that tore through a key highway in southwestern Colombia has once again plunged the country into a cycle of violence, raising urgent questions about security, governance and the future
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For more than six months, 160 sailors aboard a British nuclear submarine disappeared from the surface of the Earth. No sunlight touched their skin, no fresh air filled their lungs, and no
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Iran’s leadership has retreated into the shadows, with its newly installed supreme leader, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, reportedly governing through a clandestine web of couriers while recovering from devastating injuries. As the war
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The United States’ ability to defend Taiwan in the event of a near-term conflict with China is being quietly reassessed inside the administration, as extensive weapons use in the ongoing Iran war
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A growing push to regulate artificial intelligence in military applications is running into a fundamental problem: no one can agree on who exactly represents the “AI industry.” A new analysis by the
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