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Spectrum and Communications

Control of electromagnetic flows that enable or deny command and awareness. Disruptions impacting telecom and cybersecurity investments.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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Sovereignty at 1100km: Why National LEO Constellations Need Partners

Dec 5, 2025

Space autonomy without economic interdependence is structurally unsustainable.

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Beyond the Constellation: GEO Lasers Reshape the Satellite Battlefield

Dec 4, 2025

Laser comms from geostationary orbit signal a new model for orbital sovereignty.

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Quantum-Crypto Testing: Tactical Readiness for QKD, PQC and Hybrid Systems

Nov 20, 2025

Test and measurement is the new choke point in quantum-security deployment.

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Japan's Subsea Cable Dilemma

Oct 7, 2025

A chokepoint between resilience and sabotage

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Redundant Mesh Networks Baked into DePINs

Sep 26, 2025

Communications survive collapse from edges, not towers

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ESA Crosses the Deep-Space Laser Threshold

Sep 23, 2025

Europe tests sovereignty at 300 million kilometres

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Stratospheric Mesh: DePIN Takes Flight

Sep 12, 2025

Drones are becoming sovereign telecom towers.

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Control the Terrain of Decision

Sep 4, 2025

Victory belongs to those who shape the battlespace of choice.

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Holding the Unseen High Ground

Sep 3, 2025

The most decisive positions are often the ones no one realises are contested.

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Secure Satcom Rising: A New Strategic Tier

Aug 26, 2025

Ensuring resilience in satellite communications is no longer optional - it is foundational.

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Taiwan’s Cable Calculus

Aug 21, 2025

Subsea cables are chokepoints of sovereignty

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Sovereignty Beyond Speeches

Aug 20, 2025

Control is capacity, not rhetoric. Lose it, and you’re simply leasing your sovereignty.

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