Infrastructure Resilience

Robust systems that protect asset value, attracting capital to utilities and infrastructure funds resilient to shocks.

Subterranean Precision: Directional Drilling as Strike Capability

Jan 28, 2026

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

Israel Deploys Iron Beam: Laser Air Defence Enters Combat Phase

Jan 27, 2026

Interceptors cost dollars. Lasers cost cents. Israel just flipped the cost curve.

Air Defence & Pre‐Emptive Readiness: Why Ukraine Did Not Fall Within Hours

Jan 16, 2026

Ukraine denied quick dominance by Russia through strategic dispersal, pre‐deployment, and resilient air defence, not luck.

Defense Tech 2026: From Promise to Delivery in the Age of Deep Tech Warfare

Jan 8, 2026

AI, autonomy, drones, energy weapons and resilient systems mark the next phase of military transformation.

InP Substrates: The Hidden Backbone of AI and Photonics Buildouts

Jan 6, 2026

AI scale‐out now hinges on two substrate champions, revealing a systemic bottleneck in optical and photonic supply chains.

Subsea Sovereignty and Signal Wars: The Deep Edge is the New High Ground

Jan 1, 2026

Subsea cables and drone swarms redraw escalation thresholds in Taiwan Strait

The Sixth Field - Dispatch #007

Dec 31, 2025

AI Governance | Modular Procurement | AI Alignment | Cultural Legitimacy

Subsea Intelligence: Commercial Robotics Enters the Underwater Battlespace

Dec 23, 2025

The seabed has become a new frontier, commercial subsea tech begins to deliver real‐time intelligence and resilience for national security.

Greyshark and the Cable Frontier

Dec 19, 2025

A new shark-shaped autonomous vehicle takes aim at the silent war beneath the waves.

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.

Under the Sea: Why the Cloud’s Backbone Is Also a Critical Vulnerability

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.

Genesis Mission: America's Science Engine Goes Fully Digital

Dec 12, 2025

AI turns national labs into a single sovereign R&D platform.

NATO's AI War Room: Google Cloud Powers Classified Combat Intelligence for Ukraine

Dec 10, 2025

Civilian cloud AI is now embedded in sovereign warfighting networks.

Golden Dome: Space-Based Interceptors Shift Deterrence Above the Atmosphere

Dec 9, 2025

Kinetic missile defence moves to orbit as the U.S. Space Force initiates prototype interceptor contracts.

30% at Home: Britain Rebuilds Sovereignty Through the Mine Shaft

Dec 8, 2025

London sets a domestic extraction and recycling target for critical minerals, cutting exposure to China and Russia.

Neros Drone Forge: US Startup Channels DARPA for Tactical Edge

Nov 25, 2025

Small, fast, sovereign: drone prototyping enters battlefield tempo.

Critical Minerals, Critical Leverage

Nov 12, 2025

Rare earths, gallium, graphite: supply sovereignty is now a strategic battlefield.

Indo-Pacific Subsurface Alliance: France and India Extend Submarine Pact

Nov 11, 2025

Submarine sovereignty depends on what’s built below the surface and where.

Runway‐Free Airpower: Shield AI's X‐BAT Jets Rewrite High‐End Deterrence

Nov 7, 2025

Autonomy now flies where runways cannot reach.

Digital Alliance of Nations: UK‐US Tech Prosperity Deal Reframes AI Diplomacy

Nov 6, 2025

Software and sovereignty now go hand‐in‐hand across the Atlantic.

Hyperscale Sovereignty: Nscale's $1.1B Series B Rewires Europe's AI Backbone

Nov 4, 2025

Infrastructure resilience is no longer about roads and grids. It’s about compute.

Reshoring the Silicon Backbone: Texas Instruments’ Manufacturing Pivot

Oct 29, 2025

Semiconductor sovereignty starts with fabrication, not just design.

Unmanned Sovereignty: Europe's Dual Push for Autonomous Platforms

Oct 28, 2025

STARK and ARX Robotics signal a shift to modular, sovereign autonomy across air and ground domains.

Europe's Space Shield: Autonomy Beyond NATO

Oct 23, 2025

Orbital defence is now a test of political independence.

Germany Warns of Orbital Threats: War Expands to Space

Oct 21, 2025

Space is now a contested domain: Germany signals a shift in great‐power posture beyond Earth