How Iran Outsources Attacks to Criminal Gangs and Proxies
Iran is tapping into the gig economy for attacks abroad via gangs, drug traffickers, and other for-hire criminal proxies. How prepared is the West?
Why AI Labs Can’t Slow Down: The Prisoner’s Dilemma Explained
AI labs are warning of extinction-level threats and say they want to slow down. Game theory explains why none of them is likely to do so.
Do the Middle Powers Have a Plan?
Canada is leading a new “Middle-Power” push to rebuild the world’s crumbling multilateral order. Shared unease with US and Chinese leadership may not be enough to construct an alternative.
Israeli Intelligence in Iran: Victim of Its Own Success
Israel’s spies have operated inside Iran with astonishing reach for two decades. But the wars that showed off their tradecraft may have cost them some of their best sources, and a high-profile recruitment effort potentially highlights Mossad’s own susceptibility to penetration.
Protectorate No Longer: Japan Emerging From US Security Dependence
For decades, Japan has been an economic giant but a marginal military power. That's changing.
