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The Iran conflict and targeted tariffs welcome in a new age of U.S. defensive readiness, reshoring defense production while simultaneously increasing productive scale.
The question the Pentagon is now asking isn’t just how accurate its GPS is, but what happens when troops can’t use it at all.
Justin Sanchez • July 5, 2026
Elevating AI and chips to national priorities is essential, but it’s also time to give biotechnology and biosecurity the same strategic focus. The U.S. should stop treating biosecurity as a low-visibility, high-impact endeavor and recommit to biotechnology as a launchpad for economic prosperity, with biosecurity as the guardrails that keep us accelerating in the right direction into the future.
The Defense Department still does not have the people, technology or records it needs to know who has been exposed, how often and how the health of service members has been impacted.
NATO’s response to a Russian provocation should depend on the scale and ambiguity of the action, balancing collective defense obligations against the risk of further escalation.
Historical examples in the U.S. have shown that harsh, deterrence-based border crackdowns like President Trump’s are not a permanent solution.
The Pentagon continues to fail America’s small businesses and ignore their technology that could benefit national security by offering less costly solutions.
Artificial intelligence is so new and fast-moving that defense agencies risk acquiring emerging tools without a clear sense of how to use them.
Spectrum is considered one of the critical strategic resources of the 21st century.
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