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But others do see the urgency.

David Finkelstein from the Center for Naval Analysis told a defense forum in Beijing that it was time for the two leaders to talk.

I'm not sure they're gonna come to any agreements anytime soon, but there's a lot of motivation to talk about these things.

The use of AI in command and control and warfare, who's using it in their nuclear chain of command, this is scary stuff.

Erica Downs is a senior research scholar at CEGEP, where she focuses on Chinese energy markets and geopolitics.

Earlier in her career, she worked as a senior research scientist in the China Studies Program at the CNA Corporation, a senior analyst in the Asia practice at the Eurasia Group, and an energy analyst at the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency.

Michal Maiden leads China Energy Research at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies.

Previously, she headed cross-commodity China research at Energy Aspects and led China Matters, an independent research consultancy.

i won't mention his name came up with a title called speed dating for wargamers but it's basically participants are invited to come up with different areas in wargaming where they they felt they needed help and so you've got the best wargamers from the army the navy the marines all in one place at one time.

So just think of all the free consulting and Civilian Wargamers and RAND and Center for Naval Analysis, all those folks.

So you can get some really good insights.

And then you have multiple people come up with things that like to be helped with.

I mean, I think you're right.

I mean, in the think tank world and the Center for Naval Analysis world, I think that those professionals are definitely mining this stuff, even in the navalist sort of folks like us.

I mean, I think you're trying to learn what you can based upon the information that you have and the access.

to professionals that you have.

It turned out poorly for him.

In our report at the CNA, the Center for Naval Analysis, where I work in the Russia Studies Program, we have a big report on civil-military relations in Russia.

It came out a year ago.

We call Prigozhin a political military baron, someone who exists outside that formal hierarchy, who has sufficient autonomy to both act militarily in an autonomous fashion, but also act politically in a subordinate