Category: In the News

Donovan quoted by Energy Intelligence Group on the legality of secondary tariffs under Supreme Court IEEPA ruling

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Lipsky featured on CNN discussing the nature of Trump’s new 15% global tariff and the future of trade policy

Siegel cited in Washington Post on possible repercussions of utilizing FinCEN and geographic targeting orders in Minneapolis

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Daniels in PBS News on Anthropic’s bargaining power with the Pentagon

By Atlantic Council

On February 24, Forward Defense Nonresident Senior Fellow Owen Daniels was quoted in a PBS News article on Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s feud with AI company Anthropic. In the article, Daniels points out that Anthropic does not have much bargaining power in the Pentagon, as other peers have complied with department policy. 

Arnold C. Dupuy gives a lecture on NATO-wide gaps and synergies in defense and technological industrial bases at the Security of Supply Symposium

Jan Hatzius’ interview with Lipsky featured in Gizmodo article on AI investment’s low contribution to US GDP growth in 2025

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Wieslander published in Royal Swedish Academy of War Sciences

On Monday, February 23, Anna Wieslander, Director for Northern Europe, was published in the Royal Swedish Academy of War Sciences. In the piece, Wieslander argues that the new U.S. National Security Strategy, released by the Trump administration in November 2025, has left Europe squeezed from both the east and the west. “To the east, Europe […]

Costa quoted in NBC News article on potential Iranian responses to US strikes

By Atlantic Council

On February 23, Director of the Atlantic Council’s Forward Defense Program Joe Costa was quoted in an article from NBC News on Iran’s retaliatory responses to possible US strikes. Costa warns that if the threat becomes existential for the Iranian regime, Iran’s response would be more aggressive.

Lipsky cited in Reuters on why the Supreme Court’s tariff ruling limits Trump’s leverage but won’t end uncertainty for trade partners

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Pınar Dost comments on Turkey’s exclusion from the Gaza Force