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Arabs, Turks and Persians: Geopolitics and Ideology in the Greater Middle East
For decades, the Greater Middle East has been a leading challenge to American foreign policy. This vast region - ranging from North Africa in the west to Afghanistan in the east, and from the borders of Central Asia down to the Horn of Africa in the south - has been a cauldron of turmoil that has affected not just American interests, but generated threats to the American homeland.
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The World Is Not Enough: Space Policies to Ignite Space Mining
This paper recommends that Congress encourage and support a commercial demonstration of asteroid capture and resource harvesting as a critical element of U.S. national security and economic development strategy.
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Warfare in the Age of AI
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Africa Political Monitor No. 50
Sudan Paramilitary Forms Rival Government;
China, Kenya Upgrade Ties Amid Global Challenges;
Trump Administration Shutters Africa Infrastructure Agency;
Gabon’s Military Leader Secures Controversial Presidential Victory;
Congo, Rwanda Edge Toward Peace Deal
China Policy Monitor No. 1634
PLA To "Expand Practical Cooperation" With Russian Military;
China and Russia Sign Lunar Nuclear Reactor Deal;
China and Brazil Ink Deals, Vow To Defend Free Trade;
Colombia Joins The BRI;
China Expands Visa-Free Travel To Five Latin American Nations
Defense Technology Monitor No. 110
An Additive Boost for Sub Supply;
3D Printing That's Out Of This World;
Starlink in China's Crosshairs...;
...While Beijing Readies HPM Weapon;
Chainmail, Reinvented
Global Islamism Monitor No. 128
Amman Cracks Down On The Ikhwan;
Russia Rehabilitates The Taliban;
Doha Deepens Its Stake in Post-Assad Syria...;
...As Damascus Grapples With Inconvenient Jihadis
Indo-Pacific Monitor No. 44
Foggy Bottom: Pyongyang Still Pursues Bioweapons;
Washington, Manila Conduct "Full Battle Test"...;
...As Ties With Tokyo Blossom;
Seoul Worries Over Chinese Expansion
Information Warfare Watch No. 45
The BBC Makes The Case;
RT is Gaming The Western System;
How The Houthis are Messaging;
Info Target: Israel
Iran Democracy Monitor No. 242
Iran's Killer Regime;
Regime Proxies Face The Future;
Oil Boosts The IRGC Further;
Dividing Lines Deepen in The Caucasus;
Iran Abandons The Houthis
Resource Security Watch No. 60
In Trump's military, a more skeptical view of climate;
China's future energy source;
Africa searches for answers to food insecurity;
China accelerates stockpiling efforts
Russia Policy Monitor No. 2678
The Push for Wartime Justice;
Taking Aim at Russia's Shadow Fleet;
Russia and The Taliban, Continued;
Putin's Plan for The Year;
Pillaging Ukraine's Treasures
South Asia Strategy Monitor No. 23
Doha Deepens Its Stake in India;
Pakistan's Westward Push;
India, France Plan Small Modular Nuclear Reactors;
Afghanistan's Taliban Head East
Ukraine Reform Monitor No. 17
Military Necessity is The Mother of Invention;
Ukrainian Drones Take To The Seas;
A Grisly Business;
Leaning Into Defense Tech