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Rules of Engagement hosts Bottom Line Up Front, a education show with 18 episodes published.
BLUF Since the missile strikes that killed Ayatollah Khamenei in late February, the Iran War has spilled over into a larger regional conflict, affecting several Gulf states and wide swaths of the Southern Levant. But as
BLUF On February 27th, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth made an unprecedented announcement, listing American AI company Anthropic as a supply chain risk, effectively barring it from all current and future federal contracts.
BLUF On March 1, two Iranian drones operated by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps flew into and struck Amazon Web Services data centers in the United Arab Emirates, and one more struck near a data center in Bahrain.
For more context, listen to BLUF #9: Regime Change in Iran Will Require the Perfect Storm, but One Might Be Brewing: BLUF: On February 28, 2026, the United States and Israel launched a massive coordinated military campai
BLUF In a 6-3 ruling on Friday, the Supreme Court concluded that the Trump administration’s use of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) to levy broad global tariffs was an executive overreach of power.
BLUF The 2026 Munich Security Conference highlighted a shift toward “wrecking-ball” politics, where the U.S. favors dismantling the traditional rules-based order for a more transactional, “personalist” approach. In respo
BLUF Recent reports and statements from President Trump signal a weakening dollar. The U.S. dollar maintains its status as the world’s reserve currency, granting the U.S. the power of effective economic sanctions and the
BLUF The New START Treaty—the last remaining nuclear arms treaty between the U.S. and Russia—is set to expire in four days. Give the state of U.S.-Russia tensions, China’s nuclear modernization, and ongoing threats from
BLUF At the World Economic Forum summit in Davos, Switzerland, the cracks of the rules-based international order ruptured. Here, the “middle power” states received a wake-up call, the U.S. was the biggest loser, and Chin
BLUF In the past few weeks, Iran has been shaken up by the largest protest since the 1979 revolution. Mass killings of protestors by the Irainian Revolutionary Guard Corp (IRGC) has demonstrated that repression has conti
BLUF #8 The world is at a critical juncture. Recent military operations in Venezuela, ambitions for the Trump administration to own Greenland, and Russia’s escalations in Ukraine suggest that international law is ineffec
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On December 8th, 2025, President Donald Trump announced that he was allowing Nvidia to sell its second-best chip, the H200, to a select number of Chinese customers. Critics of the move say it compromises national securit
Since November 2025, China and Japan have been locked in a diplomatic crisis over statements from Japan’s Prime Minister, Sanae Takaichi, which suggested that Japan may intervene on Taiwan’s behalf if China launched an a
In September 2025, AI company Anthropic detected attempted cyber-espionage by Chinese hackers who used Claude to carry out most of their attack campaign. Anthropic quickly disrupted the majority of attempts but signaled
On November 20th, U.S. officials presented Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky with a 28-point peace plan to end the Russo-Ukrainian War, which has recently been characterized by a protracted war of attrition with ove
BLUF The U.S. has recently ramped up airstrikes against vessels off the coast of Venezuela. With the arrival of the largest U.S. (and global) aircraft carrier in the Caribbean Sea, there is concern of escalation and even
Originally published as an article on November 9, 2025 BLUF Some say we are in an AI bubble because the hype valuations outpace actual revenue and because the AI market is highly concentrated. However, government investm
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