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DARC is a new kind of defense think tank
Arlington, VA
Joined November 2024
Border security is one of the biggest political, cultural, and security concerns of our time, but state capacity to make progress on it has remained frustratingly limited Today in DARC, @EvanRiggss proposes a novel visa scheme to address this issue, modeled on the Roman Auxilia
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Accelerating border security through an ancient method.
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Drawing on the Roman model, Riggs proposes an Allied Auxiliary Service (AUX) visa which offers young, highly motivated recruits to fill manpower gaps at ICE and USCIS "Citizenship through service" is offered should recruits renounce their home citizenship at the end of the visa
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Riggs begins with the simple observation that - despite a strong political mandate - deportations lag far behind stated ambitions This is in part the result of acute manpower strain: DHS has not been able to ramp recruiting at the rate that would be necessary to meet objectives
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One of our strongest policy opinions is that defensetech increasingly needs more of this energy
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Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa playing basketball with US military officials, including CENTCOM commander Admiral Brad Cooper.
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Good analysis, especially important given the upstream role that established think tanks play in the shaping of American defense To achieve the dynamism of places like early RAND, we must not only remake the ideas, but what it even means to be a “think tanker” in the first place
I never paid attention to Heritage before, but this whole debacle is extremely striking & instructive. What’s extraordinary is that the deep cultural formation (Gestalt des Bewußtsein) that underlies ‘wokeness’ has such power *even at the institution that authored Project 2025.*
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uhh based
U.S. War Minister Hegseth: "We are not preparing for a period of peace; instead, we are shifting the Pentagon and the military-industrial base into an actual state of war. "The moment feels like 1939—or, I hope, 1981. Enemies are gathering, and threats are mounting. You feel
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There is a lot to like in today’s important @SecWar speech on defense acquisitions - but for us, the simple recognition of the necessity of being on *wartime* footing was one of its most important facets. We are entering a dangerous era - one that demands commensurate urgency.
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Beyond parody
@LockheedMartin has long advocated for acquisition reform, and we thank @SecWar Hegseth for championing faster, warfighter-focused acquisition.
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Tailgate is down, grill is going, and we've got this playing on a little television set
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As the international comity of space gives way to the hard power politics of interplanetary competition, we will need new doctrines In the near term, DARC is seeking to commission work exploring the threat of triggering Kessler catastrophes to create MAD style escalation ladders
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Our research fellows currently gathered in the board room shouting MOON BASE MOON BASE MOON BASE
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The cutting edge of warfare is stranger and more improvised than you can possibly imagine
"Sentient demon tanks aren't real, they can't hurt you" The Armed Forces of Russia:
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