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Moscow Aims to Treat Critical Minerals as Diplomatic Instruments

(Sergey Sukhankin - The Jamestown Foundation) Russia is increasingly treating critical minerals as instruments of foreign policy, using state-backed resource projects tos deepen long-term...

Europe should take the long bet on the US and the transatlantic security relationship

(Ian Brzezinski and Philippe Dickinson - Atlantic Council) With its “NATO 3.0” approach, the Trump administration wants to shift more responsibility for Europe’s defense...

Sudan’s Gold Economy Is Fueling a Regional Security Challenge

(The Soufan Center) Egyptian authorities detained hundreds of people — 87 Egyptians and 136 foreigners — and seized large amounts of equipment last week...

NATO 3.0: A Tagline in Search of a Concept

(John Drennan, Ariane Tabatabai - Lawfare) When NATO leaders gather in Ankara this July, they will do so in the shadow of a recent...

Will Trump Take the Win at NATO’s Ankara Summit?

(Daniel Fried - Just Security) At NATO’s July 7-8 Ankara Summit, President Donald Trump can land a big success: advancing a NATO alliance with...

Trump puts allies on notice: AI power comes first

(Maria Curi, Ashley Gold - Axios) President Trump is redefining what it means to be a U.S. ally in the AI era. For the...

Job ads show DeepSeek aims for an AI agent with cybersecurity capabilities

(Alex Colville - ASPI The Strategist) New job postings from DeepSeek show the Chinese AI lab plans to build an agentic model that can...

China’s military AI logistics: peacetime gains, wartime vulnerabilities

(Gerald Mako - ASPI The Strategist) For decades, Chinese military planners have viewed logistics as the decisive factor in any campaign against Taiwan and...

Defence Up, Aid Down: Europe’s New Security Blind Spot

(Joana de Deus Pereira and Michael Jones - RUSI) In the wake of Russia's war in Ukraine and a more volatile global environment, European...

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