Japan is rebuilding its security architecture around “denial,” and in the last week of October the concept acquired its ...

Money builds a precinct. Demand, labour and suppliers build a capability. That is the discipline running through Raelene ...

Defense organizations adopting AI agents need more than assurances that a system will follow instructions. They need evidence ...

Lt. Col. Chip Berke, one of the first Marine pilots to fly the F-22, used to make a point about the iPhone. When Steve Jobs ...

Near the end of his Ditchley Foundation Annual Lecture on September 16, 2026, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said something that deserves more attention than his spending figures or his account of ...

In mid-October 2026, Professor John Blaxland of the Australian National University made the case for AUKUS twice in two days, ...

Overview of Professor John Blaxland’s Interview on Devil’s Advocate (Episode 93) Source: Devil’s Advocate (涵瞰世界), “EP 93 Prof ...

Germany is examining whether it can field ground-based lasers able to act against satellites. According to Lars Hoffmann’s report in hartpunkt on October 14, 2026, the German Space Agency at DLR has ...

Building the Impact Force argues that the contemporary United States Marine Corps is undergoing a fundamental transformation from a traditional, crisis‑response force into an “impact force” designed ...

Europe’s defense industry is being remade by a war that is no longer purely European. What began in February 2022 as a continental crisis has become a genuinely cross-regional industrial event, in ...

Realism has returned to the center of strategic debate. The war in Ukraine, U.S.-China competition, the conflicts in the Middle East, and the progressive weakening of multilateral institutions all ...

In March 2026, Iranian drones struck Amazon-owned data centers in the United Arab Emirates and a third facility in Bahrain — retaliation for the U.S.-Israeli campaign against Iran. It was the first ...