In the world of geospatial intelligence, there is a fundamental difference between "spying"—the general collection of data to understand an adversary's posture—and target acquisition.
By Nikhil Raghavan ·
The red carpet in New Delhi this week is laid over a graveyard.
By Alma Cordero ·
By Nikhil Raghavan ·
There is a specific kind of silence that falls over a town when the news comes back that a boy from the county didn’t come home.
By Ruth Behrens ·
The press releases from Beijing are always the same: "important instructions," "profound lessons," and "all-out efforts." It’s a linguistic shell game designed to make a…
By Imani Sutton ·
The notion that America remains the indispensable guarantor of stability in the Middle East—a comforting fiction sold to both Congressmen and foreign capitals alike—is finally…
By Emilio Quesada ·
The whole spectacle in Kyrgyzstan—Xi Jinping meeting Putin, Modi joining the fray—is a masterclass in signaling.
By Ray Dombrowski ·
The world’s great powers do not convene diplomatic summits because they are interested in mutual understanding; they meet to redraw the lines on a map drawn by their own anxieties.
By Alma Cordero ·
The moment an American power structure fails, it is not with a bang, but with a carefully curated silence.
By Emilio Quesada ·
The shift in tone from boundless AI prophet to global nervous wreck is almost comical, yet profoundly worrying.
By Aoife Gallagher ·
I’ve spent my career watching systems fail at the most basic level—the hospital ward that can't handle a surge, the community that gets left out when the grid goes down.
By Josie Calloway ·
The great theater of American exceptionalism, it seems, has finally encountered a counterweight that refuses to be dismissed as mere geopolitical noise.
By Emilio Quesada ·