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December 11, 2025 Peter Garretson,  Jackson Schnabel American Foreign Policy Council

Space Roles and Missions: From Fragmentation to Unity

The United States faces a fundamental organizational crisis in space. America’s space enterprise remains fragmented across multiple agencies with unclear roles, overlapping responsibilities, and competing authorities. This institutional confusion undermines national security, stifles commercial innovation, and threatens U.S. leadership in the vital space domain.

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Africa Political Monitor No. 62

February 24, 2026

Nigeria works to mend fences with Washington;
Attack on Niger airport highlights growing extremist threats in Sahel;
Kenya's government accuses Russia of illegal recruitment;
DRC to expand critical mineral supplies to U.S. and UAE;
Sudanese paramilitary training camp identified in Ethiopia 

China Policy Monitor No. 1669

March 17, 2026

Antisemitism with Chinese characteristics;
CCP defector details his repression of religious minorities;
New ethnic unity law promotes assimilation, mandates Mandarin;
CK Hutchison escalates lawfare after Panama seizes ports;
Australian businessman convicted of working for MSS

Defense Technology Monitor No. 116

March 17, 2026

Laser links at sea;
China deploys subsea computing;
The Pentagon is testing cyber defense in orbit...;
...While developing jamming weapons;
The drone-ification of the Black Hawk

Indo-Pacific Monitor No. 53

March 10, 2026

China steps toward semiconductor supremacy;
Seoul searching for mineral alliances with Brazil;
Japan to deploy missiles on island near Taiwan;
Pakistan declares open war as cross-border strikes escalate;
Hormuz hinders trade across Asia

Information Warfare Watch No. 52

December 22, 2025

The continued push for a Kremlin-backed messaging app;
Hamas hearts Al-Jazeera...
...As the BBC's bias is exposed;
Australia tightens social media guidelines;
U.S. army focuses on disinformation

Resource Security Watch No. 63

November 10, 2025

Washington pushes Europe on Energy decoupling;
Ukraine's potential nuclear disaster;
Iran's water crisis... and its effects;
India's national rare earth strategy;
U.S., EU combat China's critical minerals control

Russia Policy Monitor No. 2720

March 17, 2026

Moscow weighs its options in the Arctic;
Teen labor fuels Russia's drone production;
Kremlin documents reveal the human cost of the war;
Russia's shrinking arms trade