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The U.S. Navy should pursue the concept of teaming manned units — like attack submarines — with unmanned units as the best method to maximize combat potential.
As the volume of data fed into artificial intelligence models increases and its velocity accelerates, the attack surface grows.
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.
Poisonings, cyber-attacks, sabotage of infrastructure – these have become so common it is increasingly hard to think that Russia is not at war with us.
America is pursuing a route that will shackle its biotech industry to the socialist policies of Europe, the UK and Canada. At the same time, our biggest geopolitical adversary is steadily ramping theirs up.
The aircraft carrier remains an incredibly flexible platform due to the infinite changes possible in its main battery air wing.
Modern air defense systems have become important instruments, shaping contemporary politics.
With the rapid closing of the “Davidson window,” the more the U.S. can do to stockpile oil for military use, the better.
The manufacturing boom won’t materialize without greater effort by private industry, government agencies, educational institutions and non-profits.
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