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We prioritize the people who buy equipment rather than the troops who use the gear. We under-train troops on the equipment they already carry and punish honest mistakes.
U.S. shipping companies would receive subsidies to retire tankers and other vessels that are 20 to 25 years old and replace them with ships built
Justin Sanchez • July 5, 2026
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.
Seoul should evaluate whether investment in inexpensive drones would deliver more practical benefits than hypersonic weapons.
“NDAA compliant” does not necessarily mean a supply chain is secure from disruption.
We are compounding the defense industrial base vulnerability by awarding high school diplomas that overstate students’ readiness in math.
The government’s implementation timeline may be under review, but the cybersecurity obligations, contractual requirements and business pressures have not disappeared.
When multiple software agents work together, what are they allowed to do before a human must step in? The military already has an emerging answer.
An administration that seeks to rehabilitate Russia at this moment in time simply doesn’t understand core U.S. national security interests.
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