Hoover Institution fellow Thomas Henriksen discusses the Taliban attacks on the US Afghan base.

Despite threats ranging from North Korea to a government shutdown, the economy has accelerated and markets look buoyant. But complacency about political risk is itself one of the biggest risks the U.S. faces.

Traditionally, signals intelligence is neatly bifurcated into offense and defense: intercept adversaries’ communication technology and protect one’s own. In the modern era, however, there is great convergence in the technologies used by friendly nations and by hostile ones. I’ve tried to tackle some of this in a new paper, “Nobody But Us: The Rise and Fall of the Golden Age of Signals Intelligence.” It’s published as part of the Hoover Institution's Aegis Paper Series.

Hoover Institution fellow Michael Auslin discusses his National Interest article "How China Can Really Help on North Korea."