Khamenei’s Eclipse: Absolute Rule Crumbles into Paralysis and Infighting in Iran
…Bagheri, and dozens of nuclear scientists, Khamenei retreated to a hardened Tehran bunker, relaying orders through a single aide, Ali Asghar Hejazi, for nine critical days. No one, including President…
Accelerating Change But Not Necessarily an Inflection Point
…alone will always suffice. Still, lessons learned from great powers’ responses to the threat of nuclear proliferation could, for example, provide helpful analogs for the proliferation of AI-enabled autonomous weapons…
Semiconductor Nationalism in the Shadow of Taiwan’s Election
…Google, Nvidia, and Intel. More than half of the company’s institutional stockholders are American, but Taiwan retains the largest stake. Unlike TSMC’s two foundries under construction in Arizona, initially, at…
Saudi Arabia and the UAE Compete to be Hubs for Regional Business
…investment and are in a strong position to attract talent and corporate headquarters. But while many foreign multinationals – including Apple, Google, Microsoft, Siemens, and Pepsico — have indeed set…
North Korea’s Integration of AI Across Cyber, Economic, and Military Domains
…operations related to North Korea (DPRK) at Google Mandiant, where he conducted in-depth research on APT43, APT45, and the broader DPRK IT worker threat. His career began in the U.S….
Scholarly Research & Policy Relevance: One Journal Editor’s Perspective
…deterrence may guide decisions on the number and type of nuclear weapons and delivery systems to acquire. Explanations of the rise and fall of terrorist groups may have implications for…
Beyond Denial: Toward a Credible Cyber Deterrence Strategy
…reports blocking more than 100 million phishing attempts per day, and their TAG services track over 270 government-backed threat actors.32Google. “Threat Analysis Group.” Google Blog. Accessed September 26, 2025. https://blog.google/threat-analysis-group/….
A Choke-point Strategy on the Dark Web
By Levi Maxey: Did you know that when you “google” something you only access a fraction of the World Wide Web? Indeed, commercial search engines only scratch the surface, about…