American Affairs Journal

Cybersecurity has emerged as one of the defining policy challenges of the twenty-first century. From ransomware attacks on businesses and schools to hacks into our critical infrastructure, from virtual political influence operations to large-scale fraud and nefarious data collection by corporations and state actors, cybersecurity has become an indelible concern of contemporar...

The world is increasingly awash with cybersecurity incidents. In 2025, Americans alone lost over $20 billion in cybercrimes.1 Globally, cybersecurity incidents are becoming more common by the year, and attacks targeting civilian infrastructure have become a regular facet of warfare. Since the Maidan Revolution of 2014, Ukraine has been targeted by Russian hackers attempting t...

With so much money at stake, it is little wonder that the technology and infrastructure responsible for delivering these ads (“adtech”) is stuck in a perpetual arms race for human attention. The world of social media advertising, with which this article is principally concerned, is dominated by Meta, Google, to a lesser extent, X, and the awkwardly bifurcated ByteDance and “T...

For the past twenty years, attacking industrial systems required years of specialized training, custom tooling, and a nation-state budget. That model is now dead. Today, it takes a laptop and an internet connection. Welcome to “the Infinite Front.” American firms should take note.

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The United States has 330 million people, compared to China’s 1.3 billion. We cannot offer a larger market. We must offer a better one. Despite what today appears to be a fraying of traditional allies, the allied coalition (Europe, India, Five Eyes, Japan, Southeast Asia) has the population, capital, technology, and market depth to outcompete China on every dimension. The coa...