Cruise or ballistic: what’s the difference?
Defense Decoded #001 · One concept. Two minutes.
When Military GPS-Denial Training Reaches Civil Airspace
Preparing for navigation warfare requires realistic GPS-denial exercises, but their wide interference footprint demands close coordination between military testing and civil aviation.
Source Files 009: Submarines, Sanctions, and NATO’s Deterrence Pivot
Six documents on naval buildups, congressional defense dollars, autonomous weapons risk, and NATO’s strategic reset
Desert Storm Won the Campaign, but Left the Gulf Unsettled
The coalition liberated Kuwait with extraordinary speed, but Saddam’s survival and a decade of containment exposed the limits of battlefield victory
Source Files 008: Golden Domes, Shrinking Borders, and the Rules Not Yet Written
Missile defense debates, regional wars, water as a weapon, and the unsettled definition of autonomous arms
BRIEF 043 | IRAN lead · Ukraine · Taiwan · Korea · Nov 5
Iranian leaders say US midterm results prove their resistance strategy worked despite no policy change
The Danger Starts Before Launch: AI in Nuclear Decision-Making
Human authorization remains essential. The information, warnings and recommendations reaching that human also need scrutiny.
BRIEF 042 | UKRAINE lead · Iran · Taiwan · Korea · Nov 3
Russia escalates long-range drone and missile strikes on Ukrainian civilians as Poland tightens its border security
Source Files 007: AI Races, Spoofed Signals, and the Edges of State Power
Six documents on how states compete when the rules are unclear, from AI governance to Himalayan roads.
Is Silicon Valley Turning the Pentagon Into a Startup?
Elke Schwarz argues that venture capital’s drive for hypergrowth is reshaping Pentagon procurement and military norms, putting speed and scale in tension with oversight.
BRIEF 041 | TAIWAN lead · Ukraine · Iran · Korea · Nov 1
PLAN runs coordinated chokepoint drills east of Taiwan as CCP purges curb near-term invasion risk
October 2026
Source Files 006: The Gap Between Declared Victory and Verified Fact
Ukraine’s war, NATO’s future, aid versus arms, Syria’s chemical weapons, Hezbollah’s guns, and the drone cost problem