Damian is founder and curator of The Sixth Field, delivering strategic briefings on AI and defence.
Dec 24, 2025
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MIT Technology Review and Financial Times forecast that AI will reshape economies, politics and civic trust: but only robust governance can preserve stability.
Dec 23, 2025
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The seabed has become a new frontier, commercial subsea tech begins to deliver real‐time intelligence and resilience for national security.
Dec 22, 2025
Democracies are rising to treat disinformation as structural risk and are building civil‐society infrastructure to fight it.
Dec 19, 2025
A new shark-shaped autonomous vehicle takes aim at the silent war beneath the waves.
Dec 18, 2025
AI offers states strategic advantage but only if adoption is balanced with assurance, governance, and awareness of peril.
Dec 17, 2025
The global internet, AI, finance, comms depends on fibre‐optic cables lying on the ocean floor. Their fragility is a silent systemic risk.
Dec 16, 2025
Fiber-guided FPVs enter hibernation mode near the front, waiting for the perfect moment to strike.
Dec 15, 2025
A simulated “drone wall” over Taiwan challenges assumptions about satellite‐internet invulnerability.
Dec 12, 2025
AI turns national labs into a single sovereign R&D platform.
Dec 11, 2025
In the post-human transition, survival isn't about superiority but differentiation.
Dec 10, 2025
Civilian cloud AI is now embedded in sovereign warfighting networks.
Dec 9, 2025
Kinetic missile defence moves to orbit as the U.S. Space Force initiates prototype interceptor contracts.
Dec 8, 2025
London sets a domestic extraction and recycling target for critical minerals, cutting exposure to China and Russia.
Dec 5, 2025
Space autonomy without economic interdependence is structurally unsustainable.
Dec 4, 2025
Laser comms from geostationary orbit signal a new model for orbital sovereignty.
Dec 3, 2025
Resilience in the energy transition rests on a few mines, in a few hands.
Dec 2, 2025
Laptop farms and identity fraud fuel Pyongyang’s digital infiltration economy.
Dec 1, 2025
AI’s future depends not just on scale or safety, but on the moral compass of its creators.
Nov 28, 2025
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Orbital ISR | Tactical Prototyping | AI Legitimacy | Sovereign Stacks
Nov 27, 2025
Putin’s overstretched regime now faces internal erosion, not just external resistance.
Nov 26, 2025
The climate arena is shifting from virtue to vectors of control.
Nov 25, 2025
Small, fast, sovereign: drone prototyping enters battlefield tempo.
Nov 24, 2025
Timing autonomy dives deeper with quantum-secured precision.
Nov 21, 2025
Strategic terrain is now leased in plain sight.
Nov 20, 2025
Test and measurement is the new choke point in quantum-security deployment.
