America’s Gold Eagle framework is fragmenting global technology, accelerating the securitization of AI and pushing the world closer to a new kind of technological cold war—one that threatens to make AI a source of permanent global conflict rather than a shared tool for collective progress.​

Given the overwhelming superiority of the American military, Washington could create the appearance of bringing Iran under control. Regardless how the conflict ultimately unfolds, however, the United States is unlikely ever to return to an era in which the Iran issue was manageable at a limited and predictable cost.

Britain may not become a third AI superpower alongside China and the United States, but it is well positioned to serve as an important bridge across different governance frameworks.

For nearly eight decades, American grand strategy in the Indo-Pacific has rested on a singular assumption: that the United States can project decisive military

The conflict and its surrounding issues are characterized by a series of interconnected paradoxes, none of which comes with a simple, direct or rapid solution. The United States and Iran appear destined for a prolonged strategic contest.

What the U.S. president needs is not another, more intense round of airstrikes but a cease-fire formula that every side can sell at home.

Artificial intelligence is becoming a new arms race, and to avoid repeating the mistakes of the past perhaps a drastic unification of competing models could prevent catastrophe.

The risks of unintended maritime and aerial incidents triggered by more frequent and complex military activity are no longer confined to the China-U.S. relationship. They are extending into a more complicated and less predictable multilateral environment.

The focus of the Russia-Ukraine war is shifting from front-line engagements to deep-strike operations, while the central arena of competition is increasingly defined by each side’s capacity to sustain the war effort. In this evolving landscape, drones have emerged as a pivotal force.

The summit illustrated that NATO is evolving from a traditional alliance founded on shared values and underwritten by American security guarantees into an alliance increasingly defined by capabilities, responsibilities and transactions.