We Can’t Buy Our Way Out: It’s Time to Think Differently

…of Copperhead, a mass-producible torpedo.48Joseph Trevithick, “Copperhead Torpedo-Like Underwater Kamikaze Drones Rolled Out By Anduril,” TWZ, April 7, 2025, https://www.twz.com/sea/copperhead-torpedo-like-underwater-kamikaze-drones-rolled-out-by-anduril. Ghost Shark has been specifically designed for mass production and…
A Revised and Stronger International Code of Conduct for Space
…for the use of Subscribing States. Overall, the third draft is a stronger, more useful document than its predecessor. Specific changes are listed below. Section 2 – “the responsibility…
What the Last Century of Efforts to Bridge the Beltway/Ivory Tower Gap In National Security Tells Us

…executive Warren Weaver put it at a seminal conference in 1947, “since the last war there has been a change in the character of war, a change in the character…
Mathew Burrows: A Life in the CIA

…that had changed. And that was one of the big, I’d say, big changes that U.S. policymakers were worried about, actually. I mean, they were… now, we talk about Europe…
What’s in a Tripwire: The Post-Cold War Transformation of the US Military Presence in Korea

…it results in a more productive division of labor and a more mature alliance. Yet, for the reasons mentioned above, such changes are often curtailed, delayed, or ultimately called off….
What Can UN Peacekeeping Learn from Ukraine’s Drones?

…alike. As the character of conflict changes, United Nations peacekeeping operations should evolve as well. This emerging age of democratized airpower will not only present growing aerial threats to UN…
TRANSCRIPT – Inside High-Stakes Negotiations: A Conversation with Hostage Negotiator Mickey Bergman on Freeing Captured Americans Abroad
…fishermen, farmers of water and food, insecurity challenges to their prosperity. It may mean walking the holes of the UN, or boardrooms in Silicon Valley, or it may mean working…
U.S.-China Trade Conflict: Opportunities for U.S. Economic and Security Interests in Developing Southeast Asia

…project summary highlighting sustainable investment opportunity in the Mekong Delta: https://www.stimson.org/content/powering-mekong-basin-connect Toward a Sustainable water Energy Foot Future in Cambodia. A report in Stimson’s Letters from the Mekong series: https://www.stimson.org/content/letters-mekong-toward-sustainable-water-energy-food-future-cambodia-0…