Iskander Rehman
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Senior Political Scientist @RANDCorporation. Applied history, defense strategy & Asian security. Author "Planning for Protraction", "Iron Imperator."
Washington, DC
Joined October 2014
From Heisenberg to Fakhrizadeh, & from Operation Paperclip to today's AGI race, my latest in @WarOnTheRocks delves into the age-old battles for human ingenuity at the heart of great power technological competition--and how the🇺🇸 can best prevail.
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An important new paper by my RAND colleagues Jim Mitre & Joel Predd.
AGI's potential emergence presents 5 hard problems for U.S. national security: 1-wonder weapons 2-systemic shifts in power 3-nonexperts empowered to develop weapons of mass destruction 4-artificial entities with agency 5-instability
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Some excellent papers in this ongoing series.
Honored by the @PellCenter’s invitation to contribute my research to their Project on U.S. – China Technology Competition. Check out my analysis below ⬇️
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RT @sophgaston: Are you kidding me???? The UK Government has now joined TikTok. This legitimises a platform that poses profound national…
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I highly recommend this excellent and timely new report by my RAND colleagues Mark Cozad and Jennie Wenger on the potential impact of rapid demographic change on the PLA and Beijing's broader military strategy:
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RT @RushDoshi: Grateful to have had the opportunity to read an advance copy of @JosephTorigian’s new tour de force biography of Xi Zhongxun…
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RT @KathrynPaik: Lack of transparency in China-Cook Islands deal raising alarm bells in NZL - and should in the U.S. as well. @AustraliaCha…
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@oliblarel In this parallel universe, leapfrogging the English by better mastering the logistics & production of artillery was not enough—in an elan of raw patriotism & remarkable ingenuity the Bureau brothers took it upon themselves to introduce the assault rifle to the Aquitanian theater
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RT @perryworldhouse: Congratulations to #Penn's @Fiona_Cunning on the publication of her book, Under the Nuclear Shadow!
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“A man who has lived in many places is not likely to be deceived by the local errors of his native village; the scholar has lived in many times and is therefore in some degree immune from the great cataract of nonsense that pours from the press and microphone of his own age.”
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This is an excellent, nuanced & wryly humorous exploration of the enduring enigma that is Tiberius. For folks with an interest in Tiberius the general & strategist I explored these facets of the most perplexing of princeps in Iron Imperator:
Continuing our series on THE LIVES OF THE CAESARS, we explore the enigma that is TIBERIUS. How is he best remembered – as a withered, blood-bespattered pervert, or as a war hero who twice saved his country, & became the Prospero of ancient Rome?
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"DeepSeek did not emerge from one of 🇨🇳’s myriad government-backed research institutes or state-controlled companies. Liang appears to control most of the shares in DeepSeek & has steered clear of 🇨🇳’s state-dominated venture-capital industry."
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RT @thomaswright08: Not sure why people are taking all aspects of the Deepseek story (e.g. cost, chips used) at face value. The timing also…
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RT @SandeepUnnithan: The 1962 India-China border war. #DeepSeek starts by answering correctly, then quickly censors itself 😎 It’s the same,…
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This is rather silly. After all, France ultimately won the Hundred Years War and could easily name one of its next SSNs the “Castillon.” Would make for an amusing tit-for-tat among friends and allies.
🚨 NEW: The Royal Navy has renamed the submarine ‘HMS Agincourt’ as ‘HMS Achilles’ after concerns that the previous name may upset the French [@thetimes]
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RT @KyleJGlen: Sometimes you can even catch it self censoring even after answering the question.
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RT @ModeledBehavior: What should we do about high skilled immigration and why? This is the topic of my huge new report with @LettieriDC an…
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RT @RALee85: "Ukraine is in the final stages of drafting recruitment reforms to attract 18- to 25-year-olds who are currently exempt from m…
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“Combining the estimates, analysts conclude that Russia loses slightly fewer than two soldiers to death and severe injury for every Ukrainian fighter This ratio has not allowed Ukraine to overcome Russia’s population and recruitment advantages.”
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