#Geopolitics 101 - strengthening deterrence & preventing escalation: the next U.S. president must confront hard truths & tough choices to address int'l geopolitical landscape marked by competitors, rivals, and enemies who, sensing a superpower in decline, respect and fear U.S.

Important analysis from simon saradzhyan on how to understand Putin’s approach to deterrence.

All government employees and contractors should be issued locally made devices that run on an indigenous OS and are protected by a domestically produced cybersecurity system. Electronic devices with li-ion batteries should be barred from premises hosting critical defense,

This tracks with the #prosperity_legitimacy_equation …

As for China’s capacity to diffuse artificial intelligence (AI) advances at scale, one important indicator is the breadth of the engineering talent pool to implement AI models in various industries.ow.ly/MlFZ50To2Ih

This also came up in last night’s conversations in Philadelphia …

With all the talk in recent days about deterrence and escalation management, wanted to repost this.

Saw this via Michael Kofman. Fascinated to see if we could cross-check responses with people who saw the 2001 film Attila and have high Hun/Roman ratings b/c of Powers Boothe and Gerard Butler; negative Byzantine b/c of Tim Curry and is reason they know Visigoths.

What would Europe's sanctions options be if China invades Taiwan? In this ECFR brief I outline why the EU has more leverage against Beijing than it looks, how the bloc could curb sanctions evasion and what China's sanctions-proofing means for G7 allies 👇 ecfr.eu/publication/ha…

Another way Russia is operationalizing the #G0_SR paradigm … bakudialogues.ada.edu.az/articles/mosco…

As far as I can tell, no effort to connect how this defense spending would generate positive #doorstep effects across the country to offset those welfare cuts and tax hikes.

It’s quite telling that in order to meet the European commitment of providing shells to Ukraine, they had to turn to the global south. Means that my joke about procuring from North Korea might not have been entirely off the wall.

My latest for Times of Central Asia The Times of Central Asia [link to full 1900-word analysis at bottom]: Azerbaijan Is Bringing Uzbekistan into the Middle Corridor Summary: Azerbaijan and Uzbekistan have entered a new phase in their strategic partnership with the signing of the Treaty on

#Eurasian_roundabout strikes again! Russia using #middlecorridor as part of its #G0_SR strategy.

Supply chain security thoughts ... linkedin.com/posts/nikolas-…

As anticipated in National Interest … AI’s Hidden Secret—Data Centers nationalinterest.org/blog/techland/…