Israel Is Wondering if America Is Still on Its Side (Anchal Vohra, Foreign Policy) Shifts in U.S. policy and public support have Israelis searching for answers.

Hegseth Conscripts the Pentagon for Trump’s “Retribution Campaign” (Noah Robertson, Tara Copp and Sarah Ellison, Washington Post) In threatening to deploy the military justice system against Democrats ...

The Subsea Sputnik Moment (Kevin Frazier, Lawfare) China’s XLUUV exposes decades of policy negligence, demanding Congress reject bureaucratic inertia and secure the undersea cable system.

· The Real AI Threat Is Algorithms That “Enrage to Engage” · Neo-Nazi’s Online Stunts Expose the Dangers Lurking for Kids on Roulette-Style Video Chats ...

What China Will Dominate Next ( Economist) The country’s high-speed innovation holds lessons for the world.

Could “A House of Dynamite” Spark a Public Rethink of Nuclear Risk? (Blake Narendra, Just Security) There’s no shortage of opportunities to reduce the chances that a war game –or the plot of “Dynamite ...

Drug Arrests and Gun Seizures Fell as Homeland Security Pursued Immigration (Hamed Aleaziz, Nicholas Nehamas, Michael H. Keller, and Alexandra Berzon, New York Times) Internal documents reveal the ...

The Inevitable Logic of a Japanese Nuclear Weapon (Bilahari Kausikan, Foreign Policy) Rapid geopolitical change requires an urgent debate in Japan.

· In a First, Taiwan to Distribute Security Handbook to All Households as China Threat Rises ...

Trump’s Devastating Plan for Ukraine (Phillips Payson O’Brien, The Atlantic) The White House is giving Putin permission to try again. Israel May Not Be Popular, But Its Weapons Are ( Economist) Sales ...

A Terrible American-Russian Proposal to End the War in Ukraine ( Economist) Steve Witkoff’s “peace deal” looks like a Russian wish list, and Ukraine is not biting. A Self-Defeating Reversal on Ukraine ...

Cyber Operations on Domestic Networks Redux (Jason Healey and Paul Rosenzweig, Lawfare) What happens if Trump deploys cyber forces in the U.S.? The Cyberattacks Are Coming. Will Anyone Be There to ...