Strauss Center Senior National Security Fellow Brett Freedman recently authored a piece in Dark Reading titled “The Drone Gap: Why U.S. Manufacturing Can’t Keep Up with Modern Warfare.” Freedman examines the widening mismatch between the central role drones now play in modern conflict and the United States’ limited capacity to produce them at scale.
“The next major war will not be won solely by the superior algorithms or exquisite platforms that the U.S. military has invested in. It will be won by the side that can produce, replace, and adapt expendable weapons faster than its adversary,” writes Freedman.
Strauss Center Director Adam Klein was interviewed for The Christian Science Monitor on "Why the surveillance powers in FISA roil Congress – across party lines," which discusses the national security and privacy issues surrounding Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), which is set to expire at the end of April. “Imagine that, today, an FBI agent is...
The Strauss Center for International Security and Law congratulates Strauss Center Senior Fellow Brock Dahl on his nomination to be Legal Adviser of the Department of State. Brock is one of the nation's foremost national security lawyers.
Strauss Center National Security Law Fellow Megan Ezekannagha published an article with Lieber Institute at West Point's Articles of War on "Fighting at Machine Speed: AI and U.S. Army Counterfire Under the Law of War." Part I is available here and Part II is available here. "Integrating AI into counterfire offers the Army a credible way to compress the sensor-to-shooter...