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The Sunday Read with Dak Hardwick is your weekly go-to covering geopolitical issues in security, trade, alliances, and technology.
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- Sep 27, 2026
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One Ping Only (opens the original)
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The Through Line: One Ping OnlyI love The Hunt for Red October. It’s one of my favorite Cold War-era films and sucks me in every time it’s on. I also love the irony that James Bond (er, Sean Connery) is a Soviet sub captain (from Lithuania!).I love The Hunt because it’s smart. Tactics and strategy all rolled into one. It’s politically, operationally, and psychologically intense. And Marko Ramius, Connery’s character, is a master at assessing how to navigate the ever-changing scenarios he faces i
The Shimmer (opens the original)
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The Through LineI’ve been thinking about The Shimmer all weekend.On Friday, I got sucked in to Annihilation, a 2018 movie with Natalie Portman. The focus of the film is on “The Shimmer,” a place created when a meteorite hits a park and begins to envelop the area around it.The Shimmer is a place of transition. Inside The Shimmer, the rules of biology, physics, and time are all different. Everything inside – plants, animals, people – is in transition. It’s chaotic, terrifying,
The Sunday Read - September 12, 2026 (opens the original)
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The Through LineIt’s college football season in the U.S., and mismatched clocks are in my head.I’ll spare you the gory details, but in an opening game between the Michigan Wolverines and the Western Michigan Broncos, Michigan got one final chance to win because of a clock mismatch. The television broadcast showed time had expired. The officials, reviewing their own clock, said one second remained. Their clock was the one that counted. Michigan got one more play.And they won. The college sports w
The Sunday Read - September 6, 2026 (opens the original)
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First, the origin story. Weekend reading was a Washington lesson learned early. You better read - because your boss is doing the same and may ask you about it. I had many a hard copy Washington Post land on my desk, article circled in Sharpie, asking me about it. The Sunday Read started simply. It was a basic LinkedIn post on Sunday highlighting an article, report, news item, or book that was worth mentioning to the community of national security and foreign policy folks working in the sector. I
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