Key Developments

The Global War in Ukraine Reaches the Gulf

04/02/2026
By Robbin Laird

When Volodymyr Zelensky travels to Riyadh, Doha, and Abu Dhabi to sign long-term defense agreements, he…

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Leadership in the Age of Chaos

03/31/2026
By Robbin Laird

We are not living through a passing disturbance. We are living through a systemic transition from…

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From Cyberspace to the Quantum Realm

03/28/2026
By Pasquale Preziosa

For over three decades, cybersecurity has been one of the invisible yet crucial pillars of the…

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Building the Arsenal of Democracy Globally

03/27/2026
By Robbin Laird

The entry of South Korea and Japan into the NATO-managed Prioritised Ukraine Requirements List (PUR) is…

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Embraer: A Different Brazilian Story

03/26/2026
By Robbin Laird and Kenneth Maxwell

The latest earnings report from Embraer tells a story about Brazil that runs directly against the…

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When a Navy Draws Moral Lines at Sea

03/24/2026
By Ed Timperlake

A  brief CNN exchange in 2022 has enjoyed a long afterlife online. Don Lemon asked whether…

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Special Reports
01/03/2026
This collection of articles by Lieutenant General (Retired) Pasquale Preziosa presents a comprehensive analysis of the rapidly transforming...
Book Review
03/24/2026
A $1,000 commercial drone  strapped with explosives and used to systematically destroy a $50 million strategic bomber on a Russian airfield. That is not science fiction. It happened in Ukraine, and it shattered the economic mathematics of modern warfare in...
Featured Defense System
04/02/2026
By Second Line of Defense team

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...

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