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What happens when interceptor missiles run out

The growing shortage is causing panic in Ukraine and elsewhere

Diving into Trump’s unusual shipbuilding plans, plus an SMD expo floor tour

The Breaking Defense team unpacks three new directives from the White House that could influence the future of the Navy.

Odesa under attack: Russia is cutting Ukraine off from the Black Sea

Russia's current bombing strategy is not simply to punish Odesa. Moscow aims to make Ukraine's largest Black Sea port ci...

The Return of the Essential Art: Electronic Warfare and the Lessons of the Russia-Ukraine War

A Post-Cold War Assumption That No Longer HoldsFor three decades, the Alliance operated under a dangerous assumption: th...

Echoes of Odysseus in Ukraine’s ingenious approach to the art of war

Christopher Nolan's new blockbuster film version of the Odyssey is shaped by timeless values of military ingenuity, righ...

RAND Outlines Layered Defense Strategy to Mitigate AI-Enabled Bioweapon Risk

No single safeguard can prevent an actor from using artificial intelligence to help build a biological weapon, but nine ...

AI and the Risks of Tearing Down an Old System

Operation Epic Fury made clear that AI is now at the heart of American warfighting. Central Command used Claude through ...

With Colby’s tour, the US makes a pragmatic pitch to Southeast Asia

The Pentagon’s top policy official, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Elbridge Colby, used his first Southeast Asian...

Koizumi’s in Australia again. Japan is becoming less quasi, more ally

The signals are getting clear enough: Japan is becoming an ally of Australia. The latest indication is that Japanese Def...

Indo-Pacific and Euro-Atlantic Security is Not Just Indivisible, it Merges

Conflicts are connecting in Europe and the Middle East, but could Asia be next?

How cheap, simple building materials can protect strike drones from lasers

As armed forces and their suppliers work on costly lasers to knock down cheap drones, the drone makers can easily reach ...

Japan launches second US military payload to monitor space above Indo-Pacific

The data from the hosted payloads on QZS-7 and its predecessor QZS-6 will feed into the US Space Surveillance Network op...

Open-Source Intel Makes U.S. Troops an Easier Target for Iran

Iran is reading American service members’ social media feeds to deadly effect. The fact is that not all intelligence mus...

Buzzkill: How to defend Europe against drones

Drone warfare in Europe is no longer tomorrow’s problem. The continent is under attack by drones today, and the threat i...

Philip R. Lane: The rise in defence spending and the euro area economy

South Korean troops fire warning shots at North’s forces crossing border

South Korean troops recently fired warning shots at North Korean soldiers crossing the Military Demarcation Line (MDL) o...

What Have We Learned from the 9/11 Wars? Not Nearly Enough

Editor’s Note: The following article draws on themes from the author’s forthcoming book titled US Counterterrorism Opera...

Beyond Mogami: seven priorities for the Japanese defence minister’s visit to Australia

The meeting in Canberra tomorrow between the defence ministers of Australia and Japan, Richard Marles and Shinjiro Koizu...

Worth a try: the US will authorise some companies for cyber counterattacks

The United States has had enough in cyberspace. The White House has now created a program under which American companies...

Trump praises relationship with Kim Jong Un, reduces military drills with Seoul

U.S. President Donald Trump announced Sunday that Washington would substantially reduce its military exercises with Sout...

When the Pacific way is silence: Tuvalu, consensus and courage

A nuclear-capable Chinese missile landed near Tuvalu's EEZ, yet Pacific Islands Forum ministers could not agree on a joi...

North Korea warns of ‘new level’ of measures ahead of US-ROK military drills

North Korea on Friday condemned the upcoming large-scale South Korea-U.S. joint military exercise, warning of “a new lev...

Cheap Drones, Dry Taps: The Iran War Opens a New Era of Water Infrastructure Risk

Water and energy infrastructure have become one of Iran’s main levers of deterrence against the United States. Iranian F...

A next step for Australia in Southeast Asia: help nations communicate what’s happening at sea

Australia is helping Southeast Asian countries see more of what happens in their waters. It should now equip them to com...

Australia is not ready for an economic blockade of Taiwan

Last month, US Senator Tammy Duckworth warned that China may be more likely to impose an economic blockade on Taiwan in ...

Army gears up to ‘engage’ enemy surveillance satellites

The Army’s space superiority efforts are focused on countering adversary ISR satellites, as well as conducting “stratosp...

Russia’s Pacific submarine fleet could tip the scales in China’s favour

Russia has a potent yet often overlooked fleet of nuclear-powered and conventional attack submarines in the Pacific. An ...

Trump Authorizes Private Sector Participation in Offensive Cyber Operations

The White House has authorized government-directed offensive cyber operations against transnational groups, prompting wa...

Ukraine war experience gives North Korea new edge, UNC deputy commander warns

The second-in-command of the U.S.-led multilateral force overseeing the inter-Korean armistice warned that the experienc...

The True Cost of Cheap Chips

Given the relentless demand for computing power, electronic components are in scarce supply. Prices for certain memory c...

South Korea to upgrade battle tanks as North improves drone capabilities

South Korea will upgrade its K2 battle tanks with protection systems to counter a variety of threats, the country’s arms...

2026 and All That: Another Benchmark Year in Royal Navy Decline

The 1930 comic history, 1066 and All That, made famous the British habit of reducing national history to a sequence of m...

Keeping Defence above water on the Cocos (Keeling) Islands

The marine park around the Cocos (Keeling) Islands should be understood as a national security asset, not just a conserv...

Preparing for surprise: Australian defence in an age of flux

Simultaneous shifts in the character of warfare and in the international system are heightening Australia’s risk of stra...

Fear not for AUKUS as Britain’s new prime minister takes over

Australia, so dependent on Britain for AUKUS, needn’t worry about new Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s commitment to defenc...

Space-based interceptor contractors passed first Golden Dome milestone: Guetlein

The Defense Department will not decide whether to produce operational space-based interceptors until after industry demo...

How About Equipping Local Law Enforcement with a Better Anti-Drone Arsenal?

During the week of March 9, drones came over Barksdale Air Force Base in waves. Barksdale is the home of the 2nd Bomb Wi...

Russia’s Blurry Line Between Science and Sabotage Beneath the Ocean’s Surface

In 2025, Nurlan Aliyev wrote, “The Mayhem of Russia’s “Research” Fleet,” where he argued that NATO must act decisively t...

Joint force needs kinetic and non-kinetic weapons for space war: Whiting

“We’re a combatant command and we fight to win wars,” US Space Command chief Gen. Stephen Whiting told the annual Army S...

SIPRI experts contribute to UN exchanges on AI in the military domain

On 15–17 June, experts from SIPRI’s Governance of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Programme participated in the first infor...