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President Trump must use every tool to speed up arms for Israel (Blaise Misztal and Ari Cicurel. Breaking Defense)

A shipment of 1,800 MK-84 2,000-pound bombs arrived in Israel on Feb. 16, several weeks after President Donald Trump announced the end of a...

Russian ‘menace’ prompts UK defense spending uplift to 2.5 percent GDP by 2027 (Breaking Defense)

In a bid to counter Russia’s “menace,” UK Prime Minister Kier Starmer announced today that British defense spending will be increased to 2.5 percent...

Hypersonics, autonomous systems top DepSecDef nom’s emerging-tech priorities (Patrick Tucker, Defense One)

More funding is needed to develop and quickly manufacture hypersonic missiles, autonomous systems, and AI tools to counter China and other threats, President Trump’s...

Poland, Slovakia team up for ammunition, weapon purchases (Jaroslaw Adamowski, Defense News)

Poland and Slovakia have signed a letter of intent to jointly produce ammunition and cooperate on the procurement of armored vehicles, tank, and air...

Mind the gaps: Europe’s to-do list for defense without the US (Rudy Ruitenberg, Defense News)

Europe can build up most of the critical defense enablers needed to deter or defeat Russia without U.S. support within five years, provided the...

New wireless attack using 6G tech could jam devices with pinpoint accuracy (Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering)

A recent study by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy (MPI-SP) and Ruhr University Bochum (RUB) reveals that reconfigurable intelligent...

China begins building nuclear reactor with 52 billion kWh annual output (Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering)

China has officially begun construction on its first nuclear reactor unit of the year with the pouring of first concrete at the Lufeng Nuclear...

Export Controls on Open-Source Models Will Not Win the AI Race (Claudia Wilson and Emmie Hine, Just Security)

Even prior to the release of DeepSeek-R1, a contentious policy debate was taking shape: should open-source AI be regulated? In the United States, this...

The Dangers Lurking in the U.K.’s Plan for Electronic Eavesdropping (Susan Landau, Lawfare)

On Feb. 7, the Washington Post reported that U.K. security officials demanded that Apple provide access to encrypted iCloud material regardless of the data’s...

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