The increasing willingness of Jensen Huang to baldly play both sides makes NVIDIA one of the most serious threats to US national security and global technological dominance currently running.

Our of our strongest opinions at DARC is that if they ever really bring back Brilliant Pebbles it should be called Pocket Sand.

For decades, the global NGO class has had the arrogance to believe that it represents the whole of “civil society”, and the willingness of the US to indulge this fantasy has created enormous harm to the West. In its time of weakness, we must act to dismantle this network for good.

DOD has found itself in a situation where its largesse and prestige underwrites an entire ecosystem of think tanks, fora, and wonks dedicated to holding in place a strategic edifice that fails to meet the moment. Great to see @SecDef turning the ship here and hoping to see more.

Get yourself an ally that doesn’t “raise eyebrows” when you ask them for clarity on the most basic terms of your partnership with them.

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Importantly, Bittman conceives of a uniquely American way of shitposting that diverges from the style pioneered by Russia and China: one that leverages our native strengths as an online culture.

Bittman points out that despite a general recognition of US weakness in online active measures, government investment in this capability has been weak, fragmentary, and fails to utilize the private shitposting patriots that might bring the most power to this fight.

One of our most sincerely held beliefs at DARC is that the American genius for shitposting is a genuine, underleveraged defense asset. "Ladislav Bittman" explores this idea today, advocating for a full throated US adoption of active measures in the global information war.

Designing a fellowship to teach early career defense analysts foundational skills (small arms, cormac mccarthy appreciation).

Nations in this sense can be seen to be situated at different pace layers, with accompanying strengths and weaknesses in playing shorter or longer geopolitical games.

Civilizational competition takes place on the scale of centuries. Nations that conceive of themselves primarily as economic zones are ill suited to win such games since they lack sufficiently powerful norms to execute strategy intergenerationally.

In just a few short years, it will start to matter a great deal whether the global cohort of early to mid career military officers had their strategic instincts shaped by playing Terran, Zerg, or Protoss in their youth.

keep up the good work, bridge

pov: it's an early morning at the DARC office

One of the most important facts about the administration and one that continues to be missed by nearly every piece of the established policy machinery in Washington.

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Nelson proposes leveraging DPA authorities to initiate an emergency wartime "Salvage for Technology" campaign that rapidly accelerates US capacity to recover the vast quantities of critical minerals latent in the country's e-waste.

Nelson points out that the proposed solutions around critical minerals exist in a kind of policymaker fantasyland: short-term solutions are a band-aid, and long-term solutions won't take effect at the speed that we need them to. We need something that could be activated today.

At this point, it is a highly likely scenario that America will stumble into large-scale conflict without having done what is necessary to secure access to critical minerals. What is to be done?. "Donald Nelson" sketches out an emergency plan of domestic salvage today with DARC