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Had the system been in place for Epic Fury, Kuwaiti operators would have been working from the same fused air picture as every other coalition element.
The friendly fire incident underscored a structural failure and the predictable outcome of coalition forces fighting a single battle from multiple, unconnected air pictures.
Justin Sanchez • JANUARY 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.
The Department of Defense has assembled the operating architecture for the most consequential defense acquisition reform in a decade.
American and South Korean business leaders need to know that they will be treated fairly and transparently for the U.S.-South Korea alliance to flourish.
Golden Dome is unaffordable, technologically unachievable and strategically destabilizing because opponents can deploy more offensive capability at less cost.
Producing defense-grade metals and magnets requires chemical and metallurgical processes that take years to develop, qualify and scale.
U.S. policymakers increasingly recognize that foreign adversaries can exploit commercially available sensitive data about military personnel.
Pressure to rapidly implement and deploy artificial intelligence systems often comes at the cost of security.
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