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A New Cold War in an Age of Doubt [[link removed]]

A decade after Washington signaled a historic shift in its grand strategy toward China, the United States has yet to have a “Sputnik moment” of national awakening and mobilization. David Feith [[link removed]] describes seven ways [[link removed]] the US can strengthen its efforts to win the new cold war.

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Information Inoculation: Preparing US Warfighters for Cognitive War [[link removed]]

China and Russia increasingly target the cognitive processes, beliefs, and unit cohesion of opponents to achieve military objectives. To prepare US service members, the Department of War needs to adopt strategies to build critical thinking and individual resistance to persuasive cognitive attacks, writes Jake Bebber in a new policy memo [[link removed]].

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The Secret Weapon in America’s Critical Minerals Strategy [[link removed]]

Owen Dorney [[link removed]] explains how the Development Finance Corporation can help America break China’s monopoly over critical minerals in First Breakfast [[link removed]].

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Mobilizing for the “Invisible War” [[link removed]]

The US military needs a new way to build and field cyber and electronic warfare effects. Bryan Clark [[link removed]] argues that a “ virtual sandbox [[link removed]]” could be a key tool in filling the Pentagon’s non-kinetic magazine to make Chinse military planners doubt whether their strategies might work.

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How US Should Respond after China Rejects Trump Nuclear Talks, Shows Off New Weapons at Parade [[link removed]]

China claims that it has a minimum deterrent, follows a no-first-use policy and uses nuclear technology for peaceful purposes. But none of that is true, writes Rebeccah Heinrichs [[link removed]]. She argues that, to maintain deterrence [[link removed]], the US needs to (1) modernize its nuclear delivery systems, (2) formally exit the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) with Russia, and (3) accelerate development of the Nuclear-Armed Sea-Launched Cruise Missile (SLCM-N).

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Before you go . . .

Ruling out the use of clean fossil fuel technologies would be a costly mistake for the US economy and environment, argues Thomas J. Duesterberg [[link removed]] in a Wall Street Journal [[link removed]] letter.

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