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Just as the internet has connected people beyond borders, weaponized information is reshaping war, espionage and propaganda globally.
"[My nephew was] transformed into a charred, blackened and swollen child who kept asking in a faint voice for water until he died in agony.”
Like air power before it, the cyberwar fantasies of today are likely to become realities in the future.
The biggest political risk is moving from the undeniable truth that globalization could work better to the false conclusion that we are better off without it.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
As America looks the other way, the Kremlin is filling the Middle East power vacuum.
And it’s costing us.
The strengths of both multi-party democracy and China’s consensus-driven politics also contain their flaws. History will judge which works better.
Kim’s reckless missile tests challenge America’s untested new president. A clash between the two most unpredictable leaders in the world is a perilous prospect.
North Korea might agree to a nuclear deal in return for economic concessions from South Korea and security assurances from the U.S.
Western liberals need to admit that we have finally reached the limits of the Enlightenment’s cult of secular individualism.