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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.
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 2025 conflict between India and Pakistan marked an important chapter in testing the S-400 air defense technology.
Russia’s economic fundamentals argue strongly that engaging in business ventures with Russia now would be a bad idea.
Iran may well lay mines in small numbers, but it is unlikely to produce expansive, carefully engineered minefields on the scale Iraq achieved in 1990.
If we can’t produce components needed for our most advanced weapon systems domestically, then we could find ourselves at the mercy of stalled global supply chains.
In Iran, the prison cell, the gallows and the battlefield are connected.
South Korea has a robust navy that could help in Hormuz. A closer look reveals that its core ships are intricately integrated with deterrence on the Korean peninsula.
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