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The prospect of losing a large defense contractor seems particularly ill advised considering the administration’s national defense strategy that demands vast defense expertise and industrial capacity amid growing threats.
Europe must match its rules to its goals. If it wants shared capability, it must fund shared programs.
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 Trump administration can’t meet its “Arsenal of Freedom” goals without the combined efforts of the full range of American expertise: new entrants, prime innovators and commercial crossovers.
The catastrophic export control failures of both the Netherlands and E.U. mean this challenge must now be addressed by other approaches available to NATO nations.
These abuses by the regime constitute grave violations of international humanitarian law, core principle of medical ethics and fundamental human rights.
Ukraine serves as a global case study in how modern defense technology must be designed, tested and deployed to remain effective in high-intensity conflict.
The challenge is ensuring commercial electronics can be scaled, surged and, most importantly, trusted as one element within a national strategy.
Removing the ghost fleet protects the ocean environment and innocent civilians from the dangers of the often illicit or poorly stored and maintained cargo.
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