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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...
No location · Aug 24, 2026 · WedgetailHyping Nuclear Threats Is Counterproductive
Hyping threats of nuclear proliferation to justify war undermines legitimate counter-proliferation policies and paradoxi...
No location · Aug 24, 2026 · WedgetailBetting 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 ...
No location · Aug 24, 2026 · WedgetailThe Risks of Downplaying China’s Military
China has spent years modifying civilian ferries to launch amphibious armored vehicles, developing specialized equipment...
No location · Aug 24, 2026 · WedgetailHow 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...
No location · Aug 24, 2026 · WedgetailHybrid Navy: Building the Maritime Operating System
To implement the Hybrid Navy, the Royal Navy must follow the example of other successful technology transformations and ...
No location · Aug 23, 2026 · WedgetailAustralia 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...
No location · Aug 23, 2026 · WedgetailTrump’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.
No location · Aug 23, 2026 · WedgetailWar-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...
No location · Aug 22, 2026 · WedgetailPressure 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: ...
No location · Aug 21, 2026 · WedgetailSpace 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...
No location · Aug 21, 2026 · WedgetailChina’s Research Espionage Threat Is Hiding in Plain Sight
Western universities and laboratories are on the frontlines of a battle over talent and technology. This assertion may s...
No location · Aug 21, 2026 · WedgetailBeyond Military Interoperability: The Coalition Challenge of Limited War
In our last two articles for The Cipher Brief, Sami Omari and I explained why modern limited wars are so challenging for...
No location · Aug 21, 2026 · WedgetailA Rock and China’s Three-Sea Problem
Two rocks surrounded by coral, with a total land size of less than 10 square meters (approximately 108 square feet) at h...
No location · Aug 21, 2026 · WedgetailMental Health Is a Warfighting Readiness Problem for the U.S. Navy
“You cannot be at mental peace always. You will be worried. So even my family — they are scared all the time, and they w...
No location · Aug 21, 2026 · WedgetailThe Next China Shock Will Hit Defence
If tomorrow’s wars are fought mainly by machines, victory belongs to the power that can fuse AI with robotics and build ...
No location · Aug 20, 2026 · WedgetailAs pressure mounts on Putin, Russia is escalating against Ukraine’s allies
With the Russian army struggling to advance in Ukraine and Ukrainian strikes increasing inside Russia, Putin is escalati...
No location · Aug 20, 2026 · WedgetailTo stop escalation in the Black Sea, Turkey needs a new regional strategy
As strikes continue to grow on shipping throughout the Black Sea, Turkey must reevaluate its approach to shipping and se...
No location · Aug 20, 2026 · WedgetailWhy Iran has not folded yet
Formed by the brutal Iran-Iraq War, the men who now lead the Iranian regime will fight back before giving in. But time i...
No location · Aug 20, 2026 · WedgetailAustralia’s critical-minerals strategy has a Brazil-sized gap
Both countries can dig up minerals at scale – neither controls what happens once they leave the ground.
No location · Aug 20, 2026 · WedgetailBeyond the 4am scramble: AI for Philippine maritime safety
The Philippine Coast Guard loses hours to manual reporting every storm season – Australian AI could give critical time b...
No location · Aug 20, 2026 · WedgetailThe global munitions crisis requires Foreign Military Sales reform
There are steps the Trump administration can take now to speed up defense sales, supporting both parter countries and th...
No location · Aug 20, 2026 · WedgetailNew White House strategy clarifies military tech priorities: undersea, outer space and AI
The National Security Science & Technology Strategy (NSSTS) also outlines an array of second-tier or longer-term technol...
No location · Aug 20, 2026 · WedgetailWhat to make of Trump’s oddly specific claim that North Korea has 57 nukes
President Donald Trump raised eyebrows Wednesday by putting an unusually specific number on how many nuclear weapons Nor...
No location · Aug 20, 2026 · WedgetailIn the bear’s paw: How Europeans can loosen Russia’s grip on Belarus
Russia’s growing military intervention in Belarus poses a frontline security challenge for Europe. The EU needs to devel...
No location · Aug 20, 2026 · WedgetailNorth Korea launches barrage of short-range missiles from Pyongyang
North Korea test-launched around 10 or more ballistic missiles from Pyongyang at around 5 p.m. KST on Thursday, accordin...
No location · Aug 20, 2026 · WedgetailWar: Watt Is It Good For?
Military analysts are captivated by how the material nature of war is transforming in Ukraine. Unmanned systems have cap...
No location · Aug 20, 2026 · WedgetailChina’s Military Says AI Can’t Replace Commanders. Xi Is Testing That
For years, the Chinese military’s own newspaper has been making a promise it may no longer be able to keep. Whenever the...
No location · Aug 20, 2026 · WedgetailThe anti-ballistic missile shortage
In six months of on-again, off-again fighting with Iran, the United States has effectively exhausted its supply of heavy...
No location · Aug 20, 2026 · WedgetailHow AI Could Hollow Out the U.S. Military
The best soldiers know how to think for themselves.
No location · Aug 20, 2026 · WedgetailAustralia’s AI future relies on our scientific capability
This week is National Science Week. When the Minister for Industry, Senator Tim Ayres, launched it at Questacon, he put ...
No location · Aug 20, 2026 · WedgetailFault Lines – Putin’s Kurils trip, US’s carrier gap, China’s NZ espionage
Welcome to the latest edition of ASPI’s Fault Lines. Every fortnight, ASPI’s Defence Strategy Program monitors the actio...
No location · Aug 19, 2026 · WedgetailThe ‘Extinct Volcanoes’ Problem: Why Unit Strength Is Not Combat Power
More than a century ago, Aleksandr Svechin warned against mistaking formations that still existed on paper for units tha...
No location · Aug 19, 2026 · WedgetailSpace Force Funding Could Be Record High, If Congress Agrees
The Administration is requesting $71 billion for the U.S. Space Force in FY2027, more than twice what it has now. An ana...
No location · Aug 19, 2026 · WedgetailPentagon rebuffed repeated requests for Golden Dome brief: CBO
David Mosher, head of the Congressional Budget Office’s National Security Directorate, stressed that the watchdog office...
No location · Aug 19, 2026 · WedgetailThe view from South Korea on Trump scaling back joint military exercises
Seoul-based Atlantic Council experts weigh in on how US president’s decision to cut short military training is being vie...
No location · Aug 19, 2026 · WedgetailAn Australian gift of guns to PNG must not end up in the wrong hands
Before handing PNG thousands more rifles, Australia must prove the armouries meant to store them are secure.
No location · Aug 19, 2026 · WedgetailNew Delhi’s Mecca Pact calculus
Pakistan reads the Mecca Pact as deterrence – India reads it as one more variable to manage.
No location · Aug 19, 2026 · WedgetailMiddle powers are reshaping the Indo-Pacific, too
The contest between Washington and Beijing isn’t the whole story.
No location · Aug 19, 2026 · WedgetailContested Logistics and the “Last Unmanned Mile”
In a Pacific war, the U.S. military cannot assume uncontested access to its depots and supply lines for munitions, spare...
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