The Case for an Economic Fusion Center to Prevent Strategic Surprise

The next major threat to U.S. national security won’t arrive through a missile silo or a cyberattack but through a port terminal, a biotechnology lab, or a cloud infrastructure contract. Because the threat masquerades as commerce, it is rarely recognized for what it is: a coordinated adversarial campaign to erode America’s latent power, or a state’s economic capacity to generate military power over time and embed influence across critical sectors in ways that could be activated or exploited in a future conflict. This is not hypothetical. In 2024, a House Committee on Homeland Security investigation found that some Chinese-made cranes

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