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NEW: NSI Experts in the News

See what topics our experts have been contributing to in our latest NSI Experts in the News article!

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NEW: Fault Lines Episode 603: Trump’s AI Exec Order: The Next Phase of the AI Arms Race? - @johnclipsey + @andykeiser + @andrewborene + @wmatthayden break down the new AI Executive Order, which dropped yesterday after weeks of interagency debate and a last-minute halt before its original signing ceremony.

📺 Watch: https://t.co/YbXdNYdNTD
🎧 Listen: https://t.co/eBoADtDqgV

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Tomorrow, June 4, NSI Chief Operating Officer Tara McFeely will be joining @TheBushCenter and @ISRSngo for a webinar to discuss the use of Synthetic Asymmetry in CRINK (China, Russia, Iran, North Korea) states. Tara will be joined by NSI Visiting Fellow Igor Khrestin, @BAMcCown, and @davevenable.

To learn more and register for this upcoming event, click here: https://t.co/yMDcBLUbVY

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“If this confrontation escalates into a wider regional conflict, no one in Washington, Tehran, Riyadh, Abu Dhabi, Doha, Islamabad, Beijing, New Delhi, Tokyo, Seoul, or Brussels should later say, “If only we had known.” The warning signs are already in plain sight.”

Check out our new SCIF article, “The Hormuz Paradox: 'If Only We Had Known' Is Not a Strategy” authored by NSI Advisory Board member and The SCIF Standing Author Sada Cumber.

Read here: https://t.co/BZ2dw3Oaae

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NEW: Fault Lines Episode 602: Reframing Asian Alliances: Hegseth at Shangri-La - @johnclipsey + @andykeiser + @amykmitchell + @algenesajery break down Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's address at the Shangri-La Dialogue, where he outlined the administration's strategy for the Indo-Pacific.

📺 Watch: https://t.co/J1kQLt2Rf7
🎧 Listen: https://t.co/2Xp1gTBA2A

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“The strategic imperatives facing the Department of War (DoW) demand a fundamental reconsideration of how the United States leverages its most powerful asymmetric advantage: the innovation capacity of the American private sector.”

Check out our new SCIF article, “Homecoming: A Framework for Harnessing Venture Capital for Strategic Advantage” authored by @NSI_CTC Visiting Fellow Sean Singleton.

Read here: https://t.co/NRtvYcOkZU

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This Thursday, June 4, NSI Chief Operating Officer Tara Caroselli McFeely will be joining @TheBushCenter and @ISRSngo for a webinar to discuss the use of Synthetic Asymmetry in CRINK (China, Russia, Iran, North Korea) states. Tara will be joined by NSI Visiting Fellow Igor Khrestin, @BAMcCown, and @davevenable.

To learn more and register for this upcoming event, click here: https://t.co/1Gp2yhGSQM

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#ICYMI NSI Founder and Executive Director @jamil_n_jaffer joined @NewsNation with
@alcaprari23 to expand on the current developments around a deal with #Iran.

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NEW: NSI Experts Weigh In: Artificial Intelligence in the Vatican

Link: https://t.co/gGfwIdeB4T

To assess what this encyclical means for national security and AI policy, we asked our experts to weigh in, responding to the questions: What should the national security community make of the Catholic Church positioning itself as a major voice in AI governance? How might adversaries (or allies) leverage or respond to the Vatican’s intervention in AI policy? Considering the current threat landscape around AI-generated disinformation, does a framework centered on human dignity offer a useful guide for thinking about information warfare?

David Bray
Sada Cumber
John Funge
@tkathawalla
@AndyKeiser
@sultanmeghji
@KRRVentures

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NEW: Fault Lines Episode 601: Losing the Plot in Iran? - @lestermunson + @algenesajery + @johnclipsey dig into the murky details of a reported Memorandum of Understanding between U.S. and Iran— a document that Iran refutes, hasn't been signed by Trump, and hasn't actually been seen by the public.

📺 Watch: https://t.co/QkR7ahHUCC
🎧 Listen: https://t.co/a81XA497ox

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#TUNEIN NSI Founder and Executive Director @jamil_n_jaffer is joining NewsNation with @alcaprari23 at 11:00am ET to expand on an Iran deal and Secretary Rubio's upcoming meeting with Pakistan FM Ishaq Dar.

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"The instinct behind the budget’s Indo-Pacific investments is right. But connecting the proposed spending to a more coherent strategy — and strengthening the alliance relationships that make a more robust forward presence possible — would produce an approach the region can take more seriously."

NSI Visiting Fellow Igor Khrestin in @just_security: https://t.co/1ZKkIV5muy

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NEW: NSI Experts in the News

See what topics our experts have been contributing to in our latest NSI Experts in the News article!

Read here: https://t.co/aWv4PAgdeL

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NEW: EPISODE 600❗: Full Circle to Tehran - @lestermunson + @algenesajery + @andykeiser + @johnclipsey mark Fault Lines' 600th episode by returning to one of the show's defining subjects — #Iran — as a proposed deal reportedly nears completion even as the two countries exchange fire.

📺 Watch: https://t.co/nu1J5nMH8h
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NCIF 2026 #inthenews from @MeriTalk:

"Speaking at the National Cyber Innovation Forum in Washington, D.C., Andersen emphasized that stronger public-private partnerships will be essential to securing the nation’s critical infrastructure and responding to the rapidly evolving cyber threat landscape driven in part by artificial intelligence (AI)."

Read the full article here: https://t.co/q7GQwmHwgl

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#ICYMI NSI Founder and Executive Director @jamil_n_jaffer joined @LBC to discuss the latest developments around a deal between #Iran and the #UnitedStates.

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#ICYMI NSI Founder and Executive Director @jamil_n_jaffer joined @HenaDoba on @NewsNation to discuss the latest developments in Iran, Cuba and Marco Rubio's NATO meeting.

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#ICYMI NSI Founder and Executive Director @jamil_n_jaffer joined @AndrewRafferty on @scrippsnews to discuss Tulsi Gabbard resigning from her position as the Director of National Intelligence.

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#TUNEIN NSI Founder and Executive Director @jamil_n_jaffer is joining @HenaDoba on @NewsNation at 8:30am ET to discuss the latest developments in Iran, Cuba and Marco Rubio's upcoming NATO meeting.

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NCIF 2026 #inthenews from @CyberScoopNews:

“CISA has been working with industry and others 'to modify our approach to vulnerability management, modify our approach to coordinated vulnerability disclosure, modify our approach to remediation, with the explicit understanding that we’re just not going to be able to keep up using traditional mechanisms,' Andersen said, speaking at the National Cyber Innovation Forum in Washington, D.C."

Read the full article here: https://t.co/bPqMYSfsWe

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