Trump administration job cuts worsen U.S. vulnerabilities to China and other cyber-adversaries.
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Lauryn Williams is deputy director and senior fellow in the Strategic Technologies Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
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Most Americans are aware of the era of lawlessness in this country that began with the passage of the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution in 1919, making Prohibition the law of the land. By 1924, five years after the beginning of the “Great Experiment,” defiance of the Prohibition laws had grown to such an extent that Congress appropriated $13,853,980 just to expand the U.S. Coast Guard’s enforcement capabilities.
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Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Daryl Caudle called on the U.S. Navy to heighten its readiness capabilities and be able to fully surge and respond at any moment during an all hands call to Guam-based personnel last week.
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A U.K. patrol ship has intercepted a Russian corvette and a tanker after shadowing them through the English Channel, the Defense Ministry said Sunday, adding that Russian naval activity around U.K. waters had increased by 30% over the past two years.
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In October 2025, VADM Heidi Berg assumed command of U.S. Fleet Cyber Command, Navy Space Command, Joint Force Headquarters–Cyber (Navy), and U.S. 10th Fleet, becoming the 50th officer to lead the naval cryptologic community.
VADM Berg’s biography follows:
Much of the recent attention devoted to the US-China relationship has focused on the October 30 meeting between presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping in Busan, South Korea. There, the two leaders struck a deal that reduced trade tensions and, at least temporarily, seems to have ameliorated several highly contentious issues. It was clearly a positive diplomatic step—although many more are needed.
But another event last month may ultimately do far more to determine both the deeper, longer-term economic relationship and the outcome of the intense technological competition underway between China and the United States.
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