The Republic is a journal published by The Palantir Foundation, featuring commentary and essays on technology, national security policy, and international affairs.
Spring 2024
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Israeli soldiers during the Yom Kippur War in October 1973. Credit: Israel Defence Forces European nations face new security threats that are prompting them to look beyond the continent to defend themselves, including to Israel and other countries in the…
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The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the 21st Century’s Greatest Dilemma by Mustafa Suleyman with Michael Bhaskar
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The first successful U.S. satellite, Explorer 1, was launched on January 31, 1958, from Cape Canaveral, Florida. It was rapidly constructed in response to the Soviet Union’s launch of Sputnik 1 the previous year. Credit: NASA The rise of open-source…
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Book Review War Transformed: The Future of Twenty-First-Century Great Power Competition and Conflict by Mick Ryan, Naval Institute Press, 2022 (312 pages) Countless texts have recently been added to the growing—some might say bloated—genre pertaining to the influence of new…
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For all the United States has done to deter Chinese aggression, it has neglected to convince one key group: the American people. The White House should leverage the bipartisan consensus for support of Taiwan in Congress and work to educate…
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British painter Philip Connard depicted the forecastle of the Royal Navy light cruiser the HMS Curlew in 1918. Following its commissioning in 1917, the vessel was active for more than two decades before being sunk by the German Luftwaffe in…
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The Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC), which became operational in 1945, was by many accounts the world’s first programmable computer. The machine was developed at the University of Pennsylvania with funding from the U.S. Army. Credit: U.S. Army Attempts…
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In 1947, as Europe was recovering from the devastation of war, the Greek government faced off against a communist insurgency. Struggling to resist the pressure of the Soviet-supported rebellion and crippled by a crumbling economy, the leaders of Greece looked…
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The Mount Washington Hotel in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, was the site of the 1944 United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference, which pegged the U.S. dollar to gold and other currencies to the U.S. dollar. The abandonment of the gold…
