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Cyber Warfare 101: Bluff Don’t Tell
1+ day, 19+ hour ago (652+ words) US political scientist Kenneth N. Waltz wrote in 1990 that the power of nuclear weapons resides in what a nation can do, not what it does. Similar rules apply to cyber threats: uncertainty over possible capabilities is far more powerful than absolute…...
A Playbook to Clear the Strait of Hormuz
6+ day, 11+ hour ago (454+ words) In normal times, the Strait of Hormuz, a 24-mile-wide maritime passage framing the Persian Gulf, helps keep the global economy a well-oiled machine. Without it, past and present show, panic ensues. Despite significant losses, Iran's resurgent theocratic regime continues to…...
UK Semiconductors: Searching For the Next ARM
3+ week, 3+ day ago (684+ words) Christopher Cytera CEng MIET is a senior fellow with the Tech Policy Program at the Center for European Policy Analysis and a technology business executive with over 30 years experience in semiconductors, electronics, communications, video, and imaging. Having worked for successful…...
Europe’s Fighter Fiasco 1: Improving Procurement
4+ week, 1+ day ago (688+ words) A great European defense project teeters on the precipice. The French aerospace firm Dassault and its partner, Airbus, seem unable to cooperate on the next-generation Franco-German fighter jet, dubbed the Future Combat Air Systems (FCAS), and their partnership may dissolve…...
A Joint Cyber Defense for Europe?
4+ week, 2+ day ago (390+ words) One year has passed since Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered US Cyber Command to halt all offensive cyber operations and planning against Russia. The decision came as elements of the defense community were calling for a more offensive posture in…...
Putin Exposed by Ukraine’s Wicked Witches
1+ mon, 3+ day ago (481+ words) Ukrainian "Vampire" type heavy drones have a complementary role to FPVs," said Roy Gardiner, an open-source weapons researcher and former Canadian officer. While FPVs attack Russian logistics vehicles during the day, heavy drones attack the same vehicles at night by…...
Europe Embraces Chinese EVs
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (290+ words) Our customers used to buy BMWs and Porsches,saidBYD dealerEstelle Zhang.But today, they think our cars are even further ahead technologically. Chinese cars are sweeping Europe,swerving around tariffs.BYD andotherChinese brands are making even greater advances in the…...
US Navy Seeks Small, Fast Ships for Future Fleet
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (1074+ words) It was the US Navy's controversial and unlikely proposal to build an enormous 35,000-ton Trump-class battleship armed with lasers, hypersonic missiles, and a railgun that grabbed the headlines in a December announcement about the future fleet. But that masked a…...
Meeting Europe’s Data Challenge
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (460+ words) While the US scaled digital platforms and China industrialized data, the European Union focused on an alphabet soup of regulations. The General Data Protection Regulation, the Data Governance Act, the Data Act, the Open Data Directive, and the AI Act'together…...
A Quick Note on Orbiting Data Centers
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (223+ words) Energy: Solar energy in space is'plentiful, but'would require huge solar arrays to collect enough power, adding to the cost of putting a data center in orbit. If lift to orbit becomes cheaper,'it's'doable, but until then,'it's'an obstacle. Cooling: the…...