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Australia’s Pacific energy pledges need a new approach

Canberra’s goals for PNG and Pacific electrification are falling short – local shopkeeper-retailers could close the gap.

The Fuel for the Next Generation of Cislunar Exploration? Technology and Talent.

After NASA astronauts landed on the moon in 1969, their achievement bore decades’ worth of fruit, including scientific d...

The Vulnerability Gap: Why Discovery Is Outrunning Repair

The combination of AI both discovering more vulnerabilities at a faster pace and the tightening regulatory environment i...

Dangote refinery drives increase in petroleum shipments from Nigeria

Seaborne petroleum product exports from Nigeria have grown seven-fold since 2023, playing an increasing role in the inte...

Command and Politics in the War Between Moscow and Kyiv

Our intrepid team covers a lot of ground in this episode: the increasing fluidity of the battlefield, drones and air def...

Doubloon Dredger Abuses Notion to Harvest Authentication Tokens

Doubloon Dredger abused Notion and malicious PDFs to harvest Microsoft authentication tokens

Three wires, three zeros: Three failed space-tech investments and the warning signs I paid to ignore

Millions of dollars flow into space startups with the hope those companies will some day be worth billions. Florian Gutz...

The smoldering dead end: a history of solid rocket motors and their economic scaling limits

Launch vehicles have used solid rocket motors for decades, although many new vehicles eschew them. Michael Puckett discu...

Capability before prestige: A realistic astronomy and space-science strategy for Bangladesh

While space science programs are usually associated with major space powers, there are roles for emerging players as wel...

Reactors installed on nuclear-powered icebreaker <i>Leningrad</i>

The two RITM-200 nuclear reactors have been installed on the nuclear-powered icebreaker Leningrad, which is under constr...

Hungary plans new climate law, as Paks ramps up

Prime Minister Péter Magyar says that emergency works to secure the necessary water supply for Hungary’s Paks nuclear po...

Four scenarios for a looming global food crisis

In this debut edition of Fast Foresight, we explore how the future could unfold into 2027, driven by the Strait of Hormu...

Expert roundup: Can Trump’s outreach bring Kim Jong Un back to the table?

President Donald Trump’s overtures to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un have revived talk of diplomacy after years of impa...

Wake-Up Call for CNI After Iranian Attack Shuts Down UK Power Plant

Experts argue Iranian cyber-attack on UK power plant lays bare frailty of critical national infrastructure

Hyping Nuclear Threats Is Counterproductive

Hyping threats of nuclear proliferation to justify war undermines legitimate counter-proliferation policies and paradoxi...

Researchers Uncover Thousands of Leaked AWS Keys

Truffle Security says it found over 9000 publicly accessible and active AWS key pairs

Betting on Autonomous Aircraft

This exclusive Cogs of War interview is with Brandon Tseng, the co-founder and president of Shield AI and a former Navy ...

Kim Yo Jong’s latest tirade keeps South Korea out of its strategy for Trump

In the days leading up to the end of the United States and South Korea’s shortened large-scale military exercise on Frid...

The Risks of Downplaying China’s Military

China has spent years modifying civilian ferries to launch amphibious armored vehicles, developing specialized equipment...

Piero Cipollone: Interview with ilsussidiario.net

Despite delays, China could gain ground in the space race

China has abruptly postponed its planned Chang’e-7 lunar launch, which was scheduled to take place today. While the new ...

US can huff & puff, but without a political fix Iran won't come down

The latest U.S. strategy in the Middle East is defined as one of “maximum pressure,” combining military containment and ...

The End of Thailand’s Long Stalemate?

Conservatives finally won and took over the state.

Belarusian foreign chief vacations in North Korea, works out visa-free deal

Belarusian Foreign Minister Maxim Ryzhenkov spent his summer vacation in North Korea, where he finalized details of a de...

How to make military decision-support software reliable when comms go down

Armed forces need greater robustness from the systems they are increasingly using to support combat decision-making. The...

Hybrid Navy: Building the Maritime Operating System

To implement the Hybrid Navy, the Royal Navy must follow the example of other successful technology transformations and ...

Australia can lead middle-power support for US – and make itself indispensable

In a world influenced by competition between great powers, middle powers’ best path forward is to join forces in coaliti...

Due to need for "absolute success," China delays critical Moon launch to 2027

"The Chang’e 7 mission does not meet the conditions for launch."

Trump’s “57 nukes” and the hollowing out of North Korean denuclearisation

If Trump treats North Korea’s arsenal as a baseline fact, he hands Beijing the outcome it already wants.

Building Australia’s Asia capability in practice

Genuine immersion studying abroad is still basis for serious engagement with the region.

Making trade with Indonesia disruption-proof

If shipping goods is already cumbersome enough during peacetime, there is no guarantee that a conflict situation will ma...

Trump didn’t cause America’s retreat from Asia – he’s the symptom

A multipolar world matters more than one man’s antipathy to alliances.

War-warning assessment in Australia’s ‘most dangerous times’

Before 2020, Australian defence strategy was predicated on a planning assumption that we would have at least 10 years’ w...

Trump's space transportation policy calls for new spaceport on federal land

"We probably need another site that's capable of heavy and super heavy launch capability."

Pressure Points: Economic Strain, Allied Discord, and War Fatigue

Welcome to The Adversarial. Every other week, we’ll provide you with expert analysis on America’s greatest challengers: ...

How an Emerging Industrial Protocol Family Could Put OT at Risk

New research shows how attacks against some unprotected TSN protocols could allow attackers to disrupt or manipulate phy...

What it feels like under a Russian missile attack, and what the US can do about it

An Atlantic Council fellow shares her first-hand account of being under attack in Kyiv as ballistic missiles struck. The...

Space war 2040: SPACECOM preps for attacks on ground segments, eyes cislunar ops

The Space Warfighting Environment 2040 is unique because it “was deliberately written to be warfighter-first, not techno...

OWASP Flags Top AI Skill Risks in New Security Blueprint

The Open Worldwide Application Security Project has a brand-new top 10 security list tailored for the modern era, and it...

From manufacturing to AI, Thailand must reinvent its growth model

Thailand is at an economic crossroads. Slowing growth and rising structural pressures are exposing the limits of its man...