America’s National Security Wonderland - American Affairs Journal
While America is battling exhaustion and political polarization at home, it is now facing something it’s never faced abroad: it is locked into a security competition against multiple opponents who, when taken together, are in fact vastly superior to America in terms of industrial capacity. This on its own would be an incredibly tough row to hoe, even at the best of times. The times, however, are not particularly good: the U.S. military currently finds itself in a state of acute crisis, beset by a number of intractable problems that neither the political nor military leadership have been able to solve...
How Intel’s Innovation Problem Became a National Security Crisis - American Affairs Journal
Gelsinger was unable to fully execute a successful response to this economic shift during his truncated tenure as Intel CEO, however, and to push his proposed new corporate “Intel IDM 2.0” business model. He resigned in 2024 under pressure from the company’s board. Whether Gelsinger’s performance or the current Intel board’s impatience and shortsightedness bear ultimate responsibility for this implementation failure is unclear. Intel’s current problems were decades in the making. But this past history has now created an acute American defense industrial crisis with global national security ramifications...
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