Damian is founder and curator of The Sixth Field, delivering strategic briefings on AI and defence.
Feb 6, 2026
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3 min read
New aviation blocs are forming outside Western defence-industrial corridors.
Feb 5, 2026
Trade corridors are power projection routes: BRICS just made a quiet claim.
Feb 4, 2026
Soft language, hard consequences: rhetorical codes that mask coordinated purges.
Feb 3, 2026
4 min read
Cohesion built on metrics dissolves under pressure. Sovereign systems must defend, not just measure, trust.
Feb 2, 2026
When values become optional, power becomes fragile.
Jan 30, 2026
5 min read
Sovereign Endurance | Cost-Curve Inversion | Subsurface Precision | Post-Narrative Doctrine
Jan 29, 2026
Defence credibility flows from historical clarity, not imperial nostalgia.
Jan 28, 2026
The tools of energy extraction are already weapons systems, just re-tasked.
Jan 27, 2026
Interceptors cost dollars. Lasers cost cents. Israel just flipped the cost curve.
Jan 26, 2026
Power has always outranked principles. What’s new is dropping the pretence.
Jan 23, 2026
The rhetoric of worker control masks the permanence of state domination.
Jan 22, 2026
Strategic Arctic geography and resources elevate Greenland from cold periphery to geopolitical tinderbox (Jan 2026)
Jan 21, 2026
The slow erosion of civic virtue is a strategic vulnerability, not just a cultural drift.
Jan 20, 2026
How informal systems hollow out sovereignty
Jan 19, 2026
Rhetoric shapes rules. Accepting “fairness” as the premise concedes the frame.
Jan 16, 2026
Ukraine denied quick dominance by Russia through strategic dispersal, pre‐deployment, and resilient air defence, not luck.
Jan 15, 2026
The static warmth of daily life is now a primary kill signal. Infrared dominance is no longer a capability, it’s a culture.
Jan 14, 2026
Iran is not peripheral; its geography, resources, influence networks, and deterrence strategy make it a linchpin of Eurasian and Middle Eastern power balances.
Jan 13, 2026
Europe’s integration model reveals a deeper contest: sovereignty vs supranational control and the capitalist systems willing to bet on the latter.
Jan 12, 2026
Chinese media commentary signals early long‐term thinking about influence and leverage in Russia’s Far East amid Moscow’s geopolitical strain.
Jan 9, 2026
2026 will reveal whether shared security can endure diverging domestic pressures and burden‐sharing tensions.
Jan 8, 2026
AI, autonomy, drones, energy weapons and resilient systems mark the next phase of military transformation.
Jan 7, 2026
ESA’s 2025 ministerial reshapes the balance of space power as Warsaw and Madrid vault into the top tier of contributors, setting distinct strategic courses: one defense-oriented, the other industry-focused.
Jan 6, 2026
AI scale‐out now hinges on two substrate champions, revealing a systemic bottleneck in optical and photonic supply chains.
Jan 5, 2026
Truth, when codified and preserved, becomes unassailable terrain in contested narrative wars.
