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Our Canadian Problem

August 26, 2025

Managing an increasingly divergent northern neighbor.

Managing an increasingly divergent northern neighbor.

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Salvage for Technology

August 26, 2025

Ensuring critical minerals in wartime.

Ensuring critical minerals in wartime.

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Data Warfare

August 26, 2025

Poisoning China's AI progress at scale.

Poisoning China's AI progress at scale.

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The Small Gods

August 26, 2025

Artificial intelligence is the new frontier of soft power.

Artificial intelligence is the new frontier of soft power.

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Strategic Anachrony

August 26, 2025

Electronic warfare and the anachronism of future conflict.

Electronic warfare and the anachronism of future conflict.

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The Best and the Brightest

August 26, 2025

Fixing America's military talent crisis.

Fixing America's military talent crisis.

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Defense thinking
for a new era.

Defense thinking
for a new era.

The Defense Analyses and Research Corporation

We live in an era where the most fundamental assumptions of warfare and foreign affairs that have defined the recent decades of US statecraft are rapidly and obviously disintegrating.

But, strategy remains shackled by a narrow, insular universe of DC "think tank intellectuals", resistant to change, captured by incumbent interests, and jealous of their status. This ecosystem undermines American power and must be replaced.

DARC is a new kind of defense think tank, dedicated to fostering courageous, iconoclastic work that will guide America in the new world being born.

Recent Work

Our Canadian Problem

Our Canadian Problem

Managing an increasingly divergent northern neighbor.

Salvage for Technology

Salvage for Technology

Ensuring critical minerals in wartime.

Data Warfare

Data Warfare

Poisoning China's AI progress at scale.

The Small Gods

The Small Gods

Artificial intelligence is the new frontier of soft power.

Strategic Anachrony

Strategic Anachrony

Electronic warfare and the anachronism of future conflict.

The Best and the Brightest

The Best and the Brightest

Fixing America's military talent crisis.