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Successful defense across land, sea, air, space and cyberspace depends on technology that can perform reliably across multiple domains and with limited connection.
The Army-Navy rivalry points the way to a more civil and hopeful future of disagreeing better and working together for something worth defending.
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.
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.
Restarting explosive nuclear weapons testing, or even for political reasons conducting tests that don’t generate a nuclear yield, is unnecessary and counterproductive.
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.
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