Rare Earth Elements
Hybrid AI and Human Red Teams: Critical to Preventing Policies from Exploitation by Adversaries
Why such hybrid AI and human red teams are needed should now be clear.
Ukraine’s Rare Earth Elements are a Distraction from Trump’s Peace Deal
If the new American president is really committed to the notion of owning Ukraine’s rare earth minerals, then the United States is going to be seeing more, not less, conflict...
America First Means More Mines
While the best-known part of an “America First” energy policy is reversing the Biden-Harris administration’s burdensome regulations on new oil and gas drilling, Republicans should also think more broadly about...
Getting Real about Critical Minerals: The Case of Antimony
While Democratic and Republican politicians have acknowledged the importance of critical minerals, both for America’s current needs and future technology, China’s decision last week to restrict the export of one...
Without Africa, Biden’s Energy Policies Are a Win for China
The state visit last week of Kenya’s President William Ruto—the first White House welcome at that protocol level for an African head of state in nearly sixteen years—and the announcement...
How to Win the New Great Game in Central Asia
In the nineteenth and early twentieth century, during the “Great Game” between the Russian Empire and British Empires, Central Asia was divided into spheres of influence. Five of the modern...
Joined at the Hip: Deterrence, Productive Capacity, and Ukraine
Ukraine’s defensive war against Russia, if successful, is going to have an impact every bit as epochal as Iraq’s 1991 eviction from Kuwait or Argentina’s forced departure from the Falklands...
Solving America’s Strategic Metals Supply Crisis
America’s strategic metals supply chain fragility is both dangerous and puzzling. A few highlights of this debacle include closing the U.S. Bureau of Mines in 1996, allowing America’s only rare...
Will China Seek to Exploit Its Rare-Earth Dominance?
At a recent Advancing AUKUS Plus conference in Canberra, Australia’s former defense minister Kim Beazley noted that “3,400 American weapons systems have Chinese rare earth components, and it is imperative...
Stronger Than Steel: Why the U.S. Military Runs on Beryllium
Imagine an airplane that weighs half as much as current jets, rocket fuel with the highest specific impulse, and springs that can sustain up to twenty billion load cycles, making...
China’s Monopoly on Rare Earth Metals is a Critical National Security Risk
If the Biden administration wants to recover from its disastrous performance in Anchorage last week, it should send a message to the Chinese by accelerating the pace of weaning U.S....
America and China’s Chess Match for the Future of Green Energy
Over the past two decades, China has quietly built a global dominance in the raw materials needed for green energy—and they’re willing to use them to achieve their political ends....