Dual-Use Technology

Tools with both civil and military applications, demanding careful governance with civil-military applications, attracting venture capital but requiring scrutiny for regulatory risks.

AI Safety is a Keyword Illusion: Intent Laundering Exposes Fragile Control Layers

Mar 26, 2026

LLMs optimise for probability, not meaning. Safety built on words, not intent, fails under pressure.

China’s Rare-Earth Throttle: Why smoother exports still tighten state control

Mar 23, 2026

Beijing is not liberalising the minerals stack. It is refining the choke point.

AI Hallucinations Persist: Document Context Does Not Solve Reliability

Mar 17, 2026

More data in the prompt is not fixing fabrication. It is often making it worse.

Cognitive Debt: Early Evidence That AI Writing Tools May Weaken Independent Thinking

Mar 13, 2026

MIT researchers find measurable declines in brain connectivity and memory retention when people rely heavily on AI writing assistants.

Surveillance Sovereignty: How Iran’s Civilian Camera Network Became Israel’s Targeting Grid

Mar 9, 2026

Authoritarian surveillance infrastructure created the most detailed urban targeting dataset in the Middle East.

US Army Shifts to Open-Ended Spectrum Procurement: Machine-Speed EMS as the New Industrial Battleground

Mar 3, 2026

The electromagnetic spectrum becomes a software-defined race for speed and scale.

Russia's Starlink Dependency: Embedded Commercial Space as a Battlefield Vulnerability

Feb 25, 2026

When your adversary controls the network layer, your doctrine rests on rented infrastructure.

India-Russia Jet Deal: Aerospace Realignment in the Global South

Feb 6, 2026

New aviation blocs are forming outside Western defence-industrial corridors.

Subterranean Precision: Directional Drilling as Strike Capability

Jan 28, 2026

The tools of energy extraction are already weapons systems, just re-tasked.

Thermal Discipline or Death: Winter ISR in the Infrared Battlespace

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.

KVN: Russia’s Fiber‐Optic FPV Munition Scaling Low‐Signal Warfare

Jan 2, 2026

Mass‐produced jam‐resistant loitering drones reshape ground conflict and EW calculus

AI Leverage vs Risk: Why Nations Must Choose Their Place on the Spectrum

Dec 18, 2025

AI offers states strategic advantage but only if adoption is balanced with assurance, governance, and awareness of peril.

Lithium's Strategic Depth: Where the Battery War Is Actually Fought

Dec 3, 2025

Resilience in the energy transition rests on a few mines, in a few hands.

Proximity as Payload: Chinese Shell Companies Near Whiteman AFB

Nov 21, 2025

Strategic terrain is now leased in plain sight.

Andøya’s Lift-Off: Norway’s Strategic Space Gateway

Aug 19, 2025

Arctic launch pads are sovereignty anchors for allied space power