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02.19.2025
Dan

Letter From the CEO, 2025

In recent years, the post-Cold War world order has cracked and broken. The Golden Arches theory of conflict prevention failed, leaving the U.S. and our allies exposed, with deep economic dependency on authoritarian rivals. We now face frequent, explicit threats – not just from rogue states and non-state actors, but from “near-peer” competitors. Despite motivated attempts at prevention, those threats have materialized into attacks, and free societies are falling under military domination.