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Israel’s cyber assault on Iran during the Twelve-Day War caused a bank run and destroyed $90 million of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ cryptocurrency assets. In The Wall Street Journal, Michael Doran and Zineb Riboua argue that the United States should support Israeli cyber operations more to improve leverage over Tehran and prepare for high-stakes cyber warfare in the future.
As Japan navigates demographic shifts and its global influence increases, Tokyo stands out as a hub for innovation and investment. Governor Yuriko Koike joined Hudson Japan Chair Kenneth Weinstein to discuss the city’s role in shaping Japan’s engagement with the US and the world.
Watch the event, read the transcript, or listen to the podcast here.
Journalist Salena Zito joined Paul Sracic to discuss her new book, Butler: The Untold Story of the Near Assassination of Donald Trump and the Fight for America’s Heartland, which draws on years of on-the-ground reporting to identify the forces driving American politics during President Trump’s campaign for reelection.
Watch the event, read the transcript, or listen to the podcast here.
Despite years of reform, the Pentagon still struggles to field new technology quickly. Tomorrow at 10:00 a.m., Bryan Clark, Representative Rob Wittman (R-VA), General Mike Minihan (US Air Force, Ret.), and defense industry leaders will discuss how buying capabilities as a service could help defense officials bypass red tape and get necessary tools to warfighters faster.
After Kherson’s 2022 liberation from Russian occupation, Ukrainian authorities quickly restored governance and essential services. With the threat of Russian aggression looming over other frontline states, Luke Coffey draws on Kherson’s experience to lay out a framework for governing under wartime conditions or occupation in a new Hudson policy memo based on his field research in the region.
Before you go . . .
Rebeccah Heinrichs explains that the faction of commentators who see America’s exercise of military power abroad as illegitimate and dangerous can best be understood as the “1939 Project”—a decentralized, right-wing, online analogue to the left’s 1619 Project.
