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Defense

Coverage of military posture, weapons systems, defense industrial base, and the evolution of modern warfare and force structure.

Germany's Eastern Promise: Strategic Shift or Expensive Theater?

Germany's Eastern Promise: Strategic Shift or Expensive Theater?

Berlin has pledged its first permanent foreign military deployment since 1945—a 5,000-strong brigade in Lithuania by 2027. The commitment is real. Whether Germany can fulfill it remains the central question for NATO's eastern flank.

The Sovereignty Loophole: Why NATO Cannot Stop Russia's Shadow Fleet

The Sovereignty Loophole: Why NATO Cannot Stop Russia's Shadow Fleet

Over 600 Russian-linked vessels conduct espionage operations in European waters while NATO watches helplessly. The problem is not military capability but legal architecture—a gap between eighteenth-century maritime law and twenty-first-century hybrid warfare that the world's most powerful...

The Six-Character Skeleton Key

The Six-Character Skeleton Key

A booking code designed in the 1960s still guards the travel identities of billions. The Amadeus vulnerability exposed what the aviation industry has long avoided admitting: its reservation systems were built for a world without hackers, and patching cannot fix architectural assumptions.

The Amber of American Strategy: What the 2025 NDAA Reveals About American Strategy

The Amber of American Strategy: What the 2025 NDAA Reveals About American Strategy

The 2025 National Defense Authorization Act was shaped by Biden but will be implemented by Trump. Its $895 billion framework reveals what American strategic culture has decided to preserve regardless of who holds power—and what remains dangerously unresolved.

The Shadow War Everyone Fights, Nobody Declares

The Shadow War Everyone Fights, Nobody Declares

Nuclear weapons made great power war unthinkable but not great power competition impossible. Grey zone warfare—cyber attacks, economic coercion, information operations—has become the default grammar of rivalry between states that cannot afford to fight directly.

The Geography of Fear

The Geography of Fear

America's military infrastructure is migrating eastward and fragmenting as it goes. The redistribution of bases and decentralization of command reveal what doctrine papers obscure: the United States has accepted that its dominance can no longer be assumed, only contested.

The Arsenal Paradox

The Arsenal Paradox

The next global conflict will be decided not by battlefield technology but by industrial architecture—the ability to produce weapons at scale while economies continue functioning. The United States is losing this race before the shooting starts.

The Lights in the Sky Are Not What You Think

The Lights in the Sky Are Not What You Think

For seventy-seven years, governments have investigated unidentified aerial phenomena with billions of dollars and thousands of personnel. The findings point not toward alien visitors but toward something more unsettling: the systematic limits of human perception, institutional knowledge, and our...

The Reef That Decides Everything

The Reef That Decides Everything

The rusting hull of the Sierra Madre sits on Second Thomas Shoal, a Philippine Navy vessel deliberately grounded in 1999 to stake a territorial claim. A handful of marines live aboard, resupplied by small boats that must run a gauntlet of Chinese Coast Guard water cannons.