#defence
6 posts tagged defence.
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AUKUS drones and the war beneath the waves
The West's bet on underwater drones to defend seabed cables reveals that the next great-power conflict may be decided below the surface, not above it.
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US Congress bets on permanent Israeli military fusion
A Congressional bill to formally integrate US and Israeli military structures signals an attempt to lock in the alliance's operational depth before any future administration can reverse it.
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Canada buys Swedish jets, not American ones
Mark Carney's decision to purchase Saab's GlobalEye surveillance aircraft instead of US alternatives signals a durable strategic realignment away from Washington that goes well beyond tariff squabbles.
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Russia's Oreshnik and the grammar of escalation
The third Oreshnik hypersonic strike on Kyiv, paired with GPS jamming of a British defence secretary's aircraft, marks a deliberate shift in Russia's escalatory vocabulary that the West has not yet found an answer to.
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Takaichi's constitutional gamble
Japan's first female prime minister wants to revise Article 9, and the largest pacifist protest in a generation has answered her — but the strategic logic of the moment is hers, not the marchers'.
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The Pentagon goes AI-first
Eight new contracts with big tech signal a genuine doctrinal shift — and raise the civilian oversight questions the last algorithmic procurement wave never quite answered.