Damian is founder and curator of The Sixth Field, delivering strategic briefings on AI and defence.
Nov 7, 2025
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Autonomy now flies where runways cannot reach.
Nov 6, 2025
Software and sovereignty now go hand‐in‐hand across the Atlantic.
Nov 5, 2025
Outer‐space is no longer a backdrop. It’s a contested theatre.
Nov 4, 2025
Infrastructure resilience is no longer about roads and grids. It’s about compute.
Nov 3, 2025
Sovereignty isn’t just defended on land or sea. It now orbits in LEO.
Oct 31, 2025
5 min read
Decentralised Compute | Biometric Borders | Resilience Infrastructure
Oct 30, 2025
The EU's biometric migration infrastructure asserts control but risks democratic friction.
Oct 29, 2025
Semiconductor sovereignty starts with fabrication, not just design.
Oct 28, 2025
STARK and ARX Robotics signal a shift to modular, sovereign autonomy across air and ground domains.
Oct 27, 2025
Infrastructure determines who controls intelligence. Decentralised compute may flip the map.
Oct 24, 2025
Autonomous infrastructure is being claimed, who governs it matters.
Oct 23, 2025
Orbital defence is now a test of political independence.
Oct 22, 2025
A lab breakthrough reveals AI can now author new viruses, raising opportunity and alarm
Oct 21, 2025
Space is now a contested domain: Germany signals a shift in great‐power posture beyond Earth
Oct 20, 2025
4 min read
National law asserts strategic ground: Italy won’t leave AI governance to Brussels
Oct 17, 2025
Without credible sovereignty infrastructure, civic trust in European integration cannot hold.
Oct 16, 2025
Pluralism strengthens democracy only if civic trust holds.
Oct 15, 2025
From garage labs to combat-ready systems, Brave1 reshapes wartime innovation cycles.
Oct 14, 2025
Veteran founders, capital flows, and alliance structures rewire the centre of military innovation.
Oct 13, 2025
Orientation is now the decisive terrain.
Oct 10, 2025
Tethered drones redefine battlefield control, embedding resilience in physical infrastructure.
Oct 9, 2025
Budgets reveal power before battles do.
Oct 8, 2025
CV90 becomes a forward node in sensor-command-fire loops.
Oct 7, 2025
A chokepoint between resilience and sabotage
Oct 6, 2025
Borders are not lines but filters of power.
