Why Disengagement Is Not the Answer; How Beijing’s Bet on Hardware Could Leave Washington Behind; America and Its Allies Must Scale Together for a New Era of War
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U.S. Navy sailors loading munitions onto a fighter jet in the Arabian Sea, September 2026

America Shouldn’t Let Go of the Middle East

Why Disengagement Is Not the Answer

By Philip H. Gordon

 

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Repairing a humanoid robot, Beijing, August 2026

Chinese Robots Could Decide the AI Race

How Beijing’s Bet on Hardware Could Leave Washington Behind

By Scott Singer and Pavlo Zvenyhorodskyi

 
A U.S.-led military exercise near Xanthi, Greece, June 2025

Rewiring the Arsenal of Democracy

America and Its Allies Must Scale Together for a New Era of War

By Dan Driscoll

 

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Fleeing a building hit by a Russian drone, Kyiv, September 2026

Russia’s Plan to Break Ukraine

What Kyiv Needs to Survive

By Dmytro Kuleba

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