In the 1980s, the United States faced a profound challenge: winning a conventional war in Europe against a numerically superior Soviet army.  Technological innovation – most notably the development of smart, precision munitions – provided a solution. Instead of needing tens or even hundreds of unguided munitions to hit a target, one smart munition would […]

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Every nation-state faces a fundamental choice: With whom will we engage in trade? What goods and services will we sell, and to whom? What will we buy, and from whom? For authoritarian regimes, where the state subsumes commercial activities, the answer is simple: Only transactions that enhance the power of the state are permitted.  While this principle may […]

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This is the concluding article in a two-part review of Chip War, a book by Chris Miller. For Part 1, click here. One significant point that Chris Miller (and, incidentally, many policymakers) seems to miss in his book Chip War is that discussions of semiconductors and national security are emphatically not solely, or even primarily, […]

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