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The growing detachment risks undermining the dominance of the U.S. defense sector and weakening the country’s broader strategic objectives.
The Arrow-3 shipment signals Israel’s maturing autonomy as it depends less on Washington’s and Europe’s goodwill.
Justin Sanchez • August 5, 2025
Elevating AI and chips to national priorities is essential, but it’s also time to give biotechnology and biosecurity the same strategic focus. The U.S. should stop treating biosecurity as a low-visibility, high-impact endeavor and recommit to biotechnology as a launchpad for economic prosperity, with biosecurity as the guardrails that keep us accelerating in the right direction into the future.
Certain functions are by nature or necessity best handled by government, such as safety-critical airspace operations.
The emerging problem is that the data the Department of Defense plans to send to states is insufficient.
Microelectronics manufacturing has been offshored over the past 25 years, which threatens our ability to produce microelectronics at scale.
A transfer could slow decision-making and complicate alliance coordination during the unprecedented chaos of a dual contingency.
Beyond the pilots and aircraft is a critical, overlooked layer of support that needs buttressing: the public schools that make mission readiness possible.
Investments by the U.S. in artificial intelligence signal a bold leap in defense modernization, but they also introduce new cyber risks.
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