From Cyberspace to the Quantum Realm
For over three decades, cybersecurity has been one of the invisible yet crucial pillars of the…
Read More »Building the Arsenal of Democracy Globally
The entry of South Korea and Japan into the NATO-managed Prioritised Ukraine Requirements List (PUR) is…
Read More »Embraer: A Different Brazilian Story
The latest earnings report from Embraer tells a story about Brazil that runs directly against the…
Read More »When a Navy Draws Moral Lines at Sea
A brief CNN exchange in 2022 has enjoyed a long afterlife online. Don Lemon asked whether…
Read More »Tiltrotor and the Tyranny of Distance
Australia occupies a unique and demanding strategic position. Its continental landmass, combined with the island chains…
Read More »Autonomy or Alignment? Canada’s Canberra Vision Tested Against Australia and Brazil
On March 5, 2026, Canada’s Prime Minister chose Canberra to deliver a confident defence of “middle…
Read More »
There is a certain logic to the evolution of the Angry Kitten system that cuts to the heart of how effective military innovation actually happens. not in program offices, but at the intersection of operational need, engineering ingenuity, and the willingness to ask an obvious question that no one had thought to ask before. The question was simple: if this pod is good enough to stress our own systems, why not turn it outward? That question has now produced a government-owned offensive electronic attack weapon headed into contested airspace as a tool for suppressing enemy air defenses. The journey from red air trainer to operational jammer is a case study in the kind of adaptive, bottom-up innovation that the U.S. defense establishment talks about far more than it...