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To maintain its position as the leading military and economic power and uphold global security, freedom, and prosperity, the United States needs to shape and win the artificial intelligence race. Today, Hudson hosts a daylong conference with experts, policymakers, and representatives from leading firms to discuss the future of American AI policy. Watch live starting at 9:30 a.m.
Drones are another key battleground in global military technological competition. With Russia frequently violating North Atlantic Treaty Organization airspace, Europe needs to develop a collective response, argues Tsiporah Fried in a new Hudson memo.
But the European Union is not a military alliance. After European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s announced plans to build a European drone wall, Can Kasapoğlu and Peter Rough argue that NATO, with its experience and established capabilities, is better equipped to manage the drone threat than the EU. They also argue that, in addition to improving joint counter-drone capabilities, the alliance should strengthen Ukraine’s ability to conduct deep strikes against Russia’s drone factories and launch sites.
With AI and other emerging technologies poised to play a major role in the future of warfare, the Pentagon needs to update its acquisition processes to accelerate innovation. In First Breakfast, Shyam Sankar explained what reformers in the Pentagon should do to return the US to a war footing:
- Shake up program offices and enforce commercial buying.
- Be a better customer and empower companies that deliver results.
- Embrace “the primacy of people” by ensuring that authority and accountability for program success flow to a single person with a face and a nameplate on the door.
The Chinese Communist Party seeks to gain a foothold in the US by purchasing strategically located land and infiltrating critical infrastructure. To reduce the threat of Chinese surveillance and cyber warfare, the US needs to maintain its narrow lead in key areas like AI, software, and advanced computer hardware, argues Mike Gallagher.
New Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has made it clear that if China tries to force Taiwan under its control, Japan may support the US in defending the island. Walter Russell Mead argues that China’s aggressive public response is an attempt to undermine Takaichi before she fully consolidates her position—and that this rhetoric echoes the CCP’s longstanding tradition of bullying its neighbors in international discourse.
Before you go . . .
Ahead of America’s 250th birthday, documentarian Ken Burns is releasing a new series, The American Revolution. For RealClearPolitics, John Fonte and Jeffrey H. Anderson spoke to Burns about how the American Founders compare to leaders throughout world history, why the American Revolution is exceptional, and how the Founders’ realistic view of human nature made continual improvement a goal of the American project.
