Intelligence

Failed Launch and Damage of the Second Guided Missile Destroyer (Joseph S. Bermudez Jr., Victor Cha and Jennifer Jun – CSIS)

On May 21, North Korea held a launching ceremony of a “newly-built 5000-tonnage destroyer,” assessed to be the second Choe Hyon-class guided missile destroyer...

Golden Dome creates a new missile defense bargain with US partners (Léonie Allard and Jean-Loup Samaan – Atlantic Council)

New details are emerging about the White House’s “Golden Dome” initiative, a missile-defense system intended to intercept long-range and hypersonic missiles fired at the...

How extremists are manipulating AI chatbots (James Paterson – The Interpreter)

In an environment where people are feeling increasingly dislocated and disconnected, Artificial Intelligence (AI) chatbots have proven themselves a compelling form of social connection....

Australia should establish a unit dedicated to financial warfare capabilities (James Tennant – The Strategist)

In an age of great-power competition, the next major conflict may be waged not in the skies over the Indo-Pacific or in the South...

Australia must rethink cybercrime to tackle it effectively (Annie-Mei Forster and Anika Guenov – The Strategist)

Let’s face it: Australia is seen as a soft target for cybercriminals. Its fragmented cybercrime response makes both individuals and institutions more vulnerable. Australia’s...

Israel buys $55 million in helo protection systems from Elbit for Apaches, Black Hawks (Seth J. Frantzman – Breaking Defense)

The Israeli Ministry of Defense will acquire $55 million-worth of protection systems from Israel’s Elbit Systems for its fleet of Apache and Black Hawk...

Estonia-Russia ship standoff portends a harsher tone on the Baltic Sea (Elisabeth Gosselin-Malo – Defense News)

Russia’s detention of a Greek-owned ship that departed from Estonia – days after Estonian forces tried to intercept a Russia-bound tanker – signals Moscow’s...

Europe’s defense investments signal big wins for American industry (Jovita Neliupšienė – Defense News)

European nations are answering the call to invest more in our own defense readiness with a nearly one trillion-dollar plan to buy new weapons...

Special operations are becoming the Pentagon’s future ‘normal’ (Patrick Tucker – Defense One)

Today’s special operators are rapidly becoming the model for the rest of the U.S. military, disrupting how the Defense Department does everything from buying...

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