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Chaotic Progress: European NATO’s Quest for Stronger Defense
In 2024, Max Bergmann wrote, “NATO Missed a Chance to Transform Itself,” where he argued NATO’s leadership needs to faci...
No location · Jul 23, 2026 · WedgetailAmerica Needs an Off-Ramp Between Doing Nothing and Shutting AI Down
For 18 days in June, two of America’s most capable AI models went dark worldwide, not for technical or business reasons,...
No location · Jul 23, 2026 · WedgetailSeoul warns North Korean mines ‘highly likely’ drifted south after rainfall
The South Korean military warned that heavy rainfall in North Korea is highly likely to have washed away land mines plan...
No location · Jul 23, 2026 · WedgetailRussia vows support for North Korea’s nuclear, military buildup
Russia supports North Korea’s military and nuclear arms buildup, Moscow’s top diplomat said Wednesday, reiterating Mosco...
No location · Jul 23, 2026 · WedgetailTotal War on Taipei: China Explores Elevating Cognitive Effects into Its Vision of Warfare
In March 2025, China’s military researchers published a concept describing how to rapidly capture and subdue the city of...
No location · Jul 22, 2026 · WedgetailHow Ukraine Put Russia on the Backfoot
Ukraine’s expanding use of drones at all ranges has changed the war’s momentum. This episode examines how Kyiv is reachi...
No location · Jul 21, 2026 · WedgetailHow the War with Iran is Shaping Key U.S. Relations Beyond the Middle East
The U.S. war with Iran has had political, economic, and military implications that spread far beyond the Middle East. We...
No location · Jul 21, 2026 · WedgetailSuez Transit Volumes Approach Full Recovery
Canal authority figures show tonnage back to within five percent of baseline as regional escort arrangements hold.
Suez, Egypt · Jul 21, 2026Rebuilding America’s Critical Minerals Base
There’s a clear consensus that America hollowed out its critical minerals base. How to rebuild it is less settled. Alex ...
No location · Jul 21, 2026 · WedgetailBefore Q-Day: The Race to Quantum First
Somewhere, a hard drive is filling up with secrets no one can read yet, and its owner is waiting for the machine that op...
No location · Jul 20, 2026 · WedgetailThe Make-or-Buy Line has Moved
The secretary of defense’s November announcement on acquisition reform laid out an unprecedented vision across the entir...
No location · Jul 20, 2026 · WedgetailNorth Korea vows to support Russia in Ukraine war until victory: top envoy
North Korea’s top envoy Choe Son Hui said Pyongyang will stand by Moscow until victory is achieved in the Ukraine war du...
No location · Jul 20, 2026 · WedgetailUS Military Smartphones Targeted Through Roaming and Ad Tech
Senior research fellow Gary Miller spoke to Financial Times about attempts to exploit mobile network vulnerabilities to ...
No location · Jul 17, 2026 · WedgetailThe Blood Bank and the Logistics of Wartime Medicine
Editor’s note: This is the fourth article in a limited series celebrating American defense technologies born from wartim...
No location · Jul 17, 2026 · WedgetailBroken Drone, Far from Home: The Case for Overseas Autonomous System Sustainment
It’s 2028, and the Fujian carrier strike group has just left Yulin, China, for an unknown destination. The U.S. Navy’s “...
No location · Jul 17, 2026 · WedgetailWhy Britain’s strategists need to wake up and stop living in the past
Executive summary Introduction The year 2026 has exposed the profound fragility of the contemporary geopolitical landsca...
No location · Jul 16, 2026 · WedgetailUS, ROK and Japan military chiefs reaffirm North Korea denuclearization goal
The top military commanders of the United States, South Korea and Japan reaffirmed their commitment to the complete denu...
No location · Jul 16, 2026 · WedgetailUS-ROK fighter drills continue despite North Korea’s past objections
The United States and South Korea kicked off a four-day joint air exercise southeast of Seoul earlier this week in the l...
No location · Jul 15, 2026 · WedgetailEmbracing orbital warfare
Executive summary Introduction The rapid development of the global space domain has opened new possibilities and imperat...
No location · Jul 14, 2026 · WedgetailUS: Pentagon Suspends CMMC Phase II Requirements for Defense Contractors
The US Department of Defense announced the immediate suspension of the CMMC Phase II requirements until further review
No location · Jul 14, 2026 · WedgetailThe Iranian use of space operations during Epic Fury
While the United States has made extensive use of space capabilities in its ongoing conflict with Iran, that country has...
No location · Jul 13, 2026 · WedgetailMultinational Hormuz Escort Mission Extended Twelve Months
The coalition renewed its tanker escort mandate, citing continued drone and mine risk in the strait's approaches.
Strait of Hormuz · Jul 11, 2026Spain rejects claims Russian freighter carried nuclear sub parts to North Korea
The Spanish military has pushed back against claims that a sunken Russian freighter carried nuclear submarine parts boun...
No location · Jul 10, 2026 · WedgetailKim Jong Un oversees military meeting on improving nukes, navy and intel agency
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un oversaw a Central Military Commission (CMC) meeting on Thursday where dozens of the coun...
No location · Jul 09, 2026 · WedgetailLee asks for NATO’s support in halting North Korea’s weapons pursuit
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung requested NATO’s support in stopping North Korea’s pursuit of nuclear and missile d...
No location · Jul 08, 2026 · WedgetailNorth Korea’s new destroyers, China border trade and Seoul’s coexistence dilemma
NK News Senior Analytic Correspondent Colin Zwirko joins this week’s podcast to discuss North Korea’s naval modernizatio...
No location · Jul 08, 2026 · WedgetailSeoul launches new team to counter North Korean drone and nuclear threats
Seoul has launched a new security organization to protect national facilities and citizens from potential threats posed ...
No location · Jul 07, 2026 · WedgetailKim Jong Un watches cruise missile tests from new 5,000-ton destroyer
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un oversaw a cruise missile test from a new 5,000-ton warship on Friday, as part of the fir...
No location · Jul 05, 2026 · WedgetailNo reports of North Korean GPS jamming near maritime border, Seoul says
South Korea’s state-run radio frequency regulator said it has not detected North Korean GPS jamming near its western isl...
No location · Jul 03, 2026 · WedgetailNATO ponders how to defend Eastern Europe as America pulls back
German tanks are returning to a region they once razed
No location · Jul 02, 2026 · WedgetailSeoul holds live-fire drills near disputed sea border with North Korea
South Korean marines fired hundreds of rounds for a maritime live-fire exercise near the disputed western sea border wit...
No location · Jul 02, 2026 · WedgetailDjibouti Approves Further Basing Expansion on Its Coastline
A new logistics pier and expanded airfield apron add capacity to one of the world's densest concentrations of foreign ba...
Djibouti · Jul 01, 2026Destroyer deployment, missile tests, drone warfare and North Korea’s near misses
This week’s episode of the NK News Podcast looks at North Korea’s military modernization, from Kim Jong Un’s new 5,000-t...
No location · Jul 01, 2026 · WedgetailSeoul says it tracked North Korea missile test despite no real-time alert
South Korea’s defense ministry on Monday sought to dispel speculation that the military failed to detect North Korea’s J...
No location · Jun 30, 2026 · WedgetailChallenging China’s maritime militia
Executive summary Introduction The ‘First Island Chain’ is a site of intense geopolitical contestation. Along it, the Pe...
No location · Jun 29, 2026 · WedgetailThe last days of the Persian Cats
The conflict in the Middle East may have destroyed the last of Iran's F-14 Tomcats that it bought from the US a half-cen...
No location · Jun 29, 2026 · WedgetailUS extends national emergency declaration over North Korea nuclear program
Washington has renewed a longstanding national emergency declaration toward North Korea for another year, citing the cou...
No location · Jun 29, 2026 · WedgetailSpace resilience in a British context
Executive summary Introduction The word ‘resilience’ has become a fixture in the United Kingdom’s (UK) space policy conv...
No location · Jun 23, 2026 · WedgetailSpace autonomy needs an authority architecture before 2027
Threats to space assets mean a greater reliance on autonomy to protect them from attack. Burak Oktenli argues this means...
No location · Jun 22, 2026 · WedgetailGibraltar Strait Surveillance Network Upgraded
New over-the-horizon radar and unmanned surface vessels extend coverage of one of Europe's busiest maritime gates.
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