The military, intelligence, and threats
Defense spending and strategy, the armed forces and veterans, intelligence and surveillance authorities, cybersecurity, and how the country responds to adversaries. Congress authorizes and funds; the executive directs.
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Issue
National Security & Defense
The military, intelligence, and threats
Why it connects to…
Model capabilities, chip exports and military uses put AI inside defense and export-control policy.
Border enforcement is run by the Department of Homeland Security and framed partly as a security issue.
Semiconductors, telecom equipment and cyberattacks are treated as national-security concerns.
Energy independence, export policy and grid security are framed as strategic questions.
FISA and intelligence surveillance authorities set the boundary between security and privacy.
Defense posture and diplomacy are two instruments of the same strategy.
War powers, intelligence oversight and the NDAA are recurring tests of the separation of powers.
Model capabilities, chip exports and military uses put AI inside defense and export-control policy.
Energy independence, export policy and grid security are framed as strategic questions.
Defense posture and diplomacy are two instruments of the same strategy.
War powers, intelligence oversight and the NDAA are recurring tests of the separation of powers.
Border enforcement is run by the Department of Homeland Security and framed partly as a security issue.
FISA and intelligence surveillance authorities set the boundary between security and privacy.
Semiconductors, telecom equipment and cyberattacks are treated as national-security concerns.