The article argues that recent executive overreach and politicization have severely undermined established norms of U.S. civil-military relations. To restore professional standards, the incoming Congress must actively exercise its oversight powers, moving beyond mere criticism to demanding transparency in defense policy and personnel decisions. Key reforms include enforcing meritocratic promotion processes, requiring documented justification for senior officer removals, and preventing the partisan use of the military. These actions are crucial for bolstering public trust and ensuring the military remains a nonpartisan instrument of civilian control.
Mapping AI Ecosystems in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom: Opportunities for bilateral collaboration and action
English Summary
The RAND report finds that the UK and the Netherlands possess distinct, yet highly complementary, AI ecosystems, arguing that cooperation is more beneficial than direct competition. While the UK leads in scale, global connectivity, and frontier research, the Netherlands excels in public-private coordination and specific industrial sectors like agrifood and health technology. To address shared vulnerabilities—such as compute sovereignty and talent shortages—the report recommends bilateral action focused on linking complementary strengths in priority areas. Specifically, collaboration should combine the UK’s commercialization scale with the Netherlands’ deep clinical implementation expertise in health, and combine Dutch production strengths with UK upstream innovation in agritech.
中文摘要
這份蘭德報告指出，英國和荷蘭擁有各自獨立卻高度互補的人工智慧生態系統，並主張合作比直接競爭更有益。雖然英國在規模、全球連通性及前沿研究方面處於領先地位，但荷蘭在公私部門協調以及農業食品和健康科技等特定產業領域表現卓越。為了解決共同面臨的脆弱性——例如運算主權和人才短缺——報告建議採取雙邊行動，重點連結兩國互補的優勢，並聚焦於優先領域。具體而言，合作應結合英國的商業化規模與荷蘭在醫療領域深厚的臨床實施專業，並結合荷蘭的生產優勢與英國在農業科技領域的上游創新。
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