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FDD's latest research found terrorist content on all three of these platforms.
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The U.S. wields tremendous economic power. Yet American economic power has been chronically underutilized and poorly coordinated.
A coercive China now acts as an economic pacing threat, while Iran, Russia, and North Korea deploy illicit economic weapons against us.
The Gameplan lays out a vision for unfettered U.S. economic power to protect national security and advance American interests.
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The Islamic Republic of Iran has quietly become one of the worldâs most aggressive adopters of artificial intelligence for warfare, deception, and repression.
Tehranâs strategy is coherent and five-pronged, and the United States isnât ready for it.
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Does the future of the Iran conflict hinge on the Strait of Hormuz?
@school.of.war host Aaron MacLean says yes.
Aaron joins @mdubowitz on The Iran Breakdown to discuss the geopolitical stakes centered on this narrow body of water.
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President Donald Trump is right to want to avoid war with China over Taiwan. He is wrong to think that holding back Taiwanâs weapons, or threatening to, makes war less likely.
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Putin doesn't need tanks to threaten the Baltics. He just needs NATO to hesitate.
Sabotage. Cyberattacks. Drone incursions. Severed undersea cables. Russia's hybrid warfare campaign is already underway, and it's testing whether the alliance will respond.
If NATO fails this test, it won't just lose the Baltics. It will lose its standing.
In Ukraine, drones account for 70 to 80% of battlefield casualties. Hezbollah took notes.
FPV drones are now a fixture of the fight in Lebanon â and Israel is still searching for a reliable way to stop them.
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For the first time since 1983, Israeli and Lebanese officials are talking directly â but are their visions for the future aligned?
On the FDD Morning Brief with Jonathan Schanzer, FDD's David Daoud explained what each side is really after.
đ¸ The underground network keeping Iran afloat.
Despite a military blockade and intensifying sanctions, Iran has a financial lifeline Washington can't easily cut.
As long as these networks operate openly in the Gulf, Washingtonâs economic wall around Iran will remain incomplete.
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Did October 7 doom Tehran's proxy network?
On the FDD Morning Brief with Jonathan Schanzer, Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib of the Atlantic Council's Realign for Palestine unpacked how Hamas's goal of destroying Israel backfired.
Trump and Xi met face-to-face, but their minds are worlds apart.
President Trump pushed his own concerns about Iran. For Xi, China has big concerns closer to home, with an economy that is overproducing cars, but is still underproducing jobs.
The biggest takeaway is that the leaders from the worldâs two most powerful countries sat across from each other and talked rather than issuing ultimatums.
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đ¸ Highlights from FDD's latest event | "AI on the Front Line: Lessons from the Iran Conflict"
The conflict in Iran reveals urgent lessons about AI as a weapon of war and statecraft.
FDD hosted a panel at the Special Competitive Studies Projectâs AI+ Expo featuring Behnam Ben Taleblu, Max Lesser, and Max Meizlish to discuss how AI tools have supercharged propaganda campaigns and more.
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