Artificial Intelligence (AI) will transform national and global security, according to Artificial Intelligence: What Every Policymaker Needs to Know, a new report from the Center for a New American Security. “AI is enabling the creation of special-purpose machines to replace human cognitive labor for specific tasks,” authors Paul Scharre and Michael Horowitz wrote. “AI has […]
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Understanding N. Korea’s History is Crucial to Talks
On June 12, President Trump and Chairman Kim Jong-un of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea met in Singapore for a historic summit. During the meeting, the United States and North Korea established the diplomatic foundation for the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula. The Singapore summit followed a year of intensified vitriol between the two […]
Trump’s Zero Tolerance Impacts Canadian Border
A significant amount of U.S. media and government attention is currently being paid to the immigration crisis along the southwest border. There is a violent drug war being fought in Mexico, and gang violence is overwhelming governments in Central America. Border Patrol apprehension numbers along the southern border are usually in the hundreds of thousands […]
DHS Cyber Strategy Faces Staffing, Vulnerability Tests
By 2020, more than 20 billion devices will be connected through a network of ping-ponging texts, bank transfers, and personal data. At the same time the world grows more connected, nefarious nation-states and transnational criminal organizations only have more targets for crippling cyber attacks. Cut the cord, and the institutions the world relies on could […]
Chinese Expansion is a Pacific Naval Threat
Since the end of the Cold War, U.S. naval dominance of the Western Pacific has remained largely unchallenged until recently. The U.S. Navy established itself as the dominant player in the region by defeating the Imperial Japanese Navy in World War II. That was followed by the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 and […]