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16 July 2025

Senate panel pushing DOD on strategy to deter Chinese cyber activity on critical infrastructure

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Mark Pomerleau Source Link The Senate Armed Services Committee is proposing legislation that would require the Department of Defense to deve...

Tokyo, Manila moves arouse Chinese concerns about Asian mini NATO

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Cherry Hitkari Source Link Manila’s adoption of Japan’s “one theater concept” has further escalated tensions with China. Proposed in March ...

PLA Military Aerospace Force: On the Frontier of Innovation and Competition

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John Costello Source Link the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) eliminated the Strategic Support Force (SSF; 战略支援部队). It reconstituted its subo...

China’s Global Hegemony Strategy

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Source Link Analyzing China’s understanding of global hegemony requires understanding not only its current foreign policy practices but also...

Misinformation lends itself to social contagion – here’s how to recognize and combat it

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Source Link In 2019, a rare and shocking event in the Malaysian peninsula town of Ketereh grabbed international headlines . Nearly 40 girls ...

PERSPECTIVE: Disinformation 2.0: Deepfakes Hit the Frontlines of Global Influence Ops

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Tom Sefton-Collins Source Link State-backed actors and disinformation-for-hire networks are already using deepfakes in real operations. The ...

Political Conclusions of the 2025 BRICS Summit

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Source Link On July 6–7, the BRICS held their seventeenth summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Created in 2009 the BRICS underwent an expansio...

As Drone Warfare Evolves, Pentagon Sees Its Own Vulnerabilities

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Julian E. Barne and Eric Schmitt Source Link The Pentagon has been working to beef up drone defenses at overseas bases in the past 18 months...

Hegseth directive on ‘unleashing U.S. military drone dominance’ includes deadlines for major overhauls

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Jon Harper Source Link Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth issued a new directive Thursday aimed at shaking up the Pentagon’s procurement syst...

Bookshelf: Taiwan’s journey to geopolitical hotspot

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Source Link The US administration is still formulating its Indo-Pacific policy, but recent indications suggest that it will take a tough sta...

Armenia broadens procurement horizons in drive to modernise armed forces

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Source Link In the aftermath of its defeat in the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war, Armenia has worked to reduce its reliance on Russia as a securi...

The United States’ Enduring Commitment to the Indo-Pacific RegionHome

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Source Link From Day One, President Biden identified the Indo-Pacific as the critical region for the future of the United States and the wor...

The Limits of Israel’s Degradation Strategy Against Iran’s Network State

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Source Link The “12 Day War” between Israel and Iran is the peak of a five-decade long conflict between a military-centric hierarchy of the ...

Israel, Iran and the New Middle Eastern Chessboard

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Source Link The brief but intense confrontation between Israel and Iran in June 2025 was more than another Middle Eastern crisis—it was a di...

Digitize or die: Ukraine’s war is a wake-up call for 20th century militaries

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Kateryna Chernohorenko Source Link A Ukrainian serviceman uses the internet on his smartphone at a base in the Donetsk region on February 23...

Why Southeast Asia Is Flocking to BRICS

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Derek Grossman Source Link At the BRICS summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on July 6 and 7, the group’s leaders will celebrate a significant ...

How BRICS Can Survive ‘America First’

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Sarang Shidore Source Link A photo illustration of Xi and Putin smiling at each other with the U.S. Capitol building in the background and m...

The evolution of cyber forces in NATO countries

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Source Link The emergence of cyberspace as a realm of strategic competition has fundamentally transformed the global security environment, n...

The Digital Immune System: How AI Can Outpace Cyber Threats

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Source Link Cyberattacks can now compromise critical infrastructure faster than humans can perceive or respond. As adversaries grow more sop...

Defence Data Strategy 2.0 - Decision Advantage in the Data Age

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Source Link The Defence Data Strategy 2.0 builds on the foundations laid by Defence’s first data strategy, released in 2021, and responds to...

AI’s Growing Role in News

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Source Link When generative AI burst into public consciousness, many in the news industry experienced a familiar sense of dread. Social medi...

Why Defense Is—Now—Eating the World

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Chad Williamson Source Link Nearly fifteen years after Marc Andreessen published his legendary op-ed, Why Software Is Eating the World —Aug...

The Annual Agony of Yearning for a Homegrown Wimbledon Champion

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Sourcxe Link On the first Tuesday of Wimbledon, with hot evening sunshine lighting up the deuce court, Jack Draper, the fourth seed in the g...

‘Third World War will come in cyber form, not guns and bullets

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Source Link My background generally is in consultancy, organisational development and performance enhancement. From there, I moved on to man...

Military and Security Dimensions of Quantum Technologies: A Primer

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Source Link Quantum technologies are advancing rapidly from experimental research into strategic defence and security applications, fundamen...
15 July 2025

How Will New Delhi Navigate the Dalai Lama Succession Row?

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Rushali Saha Source Link Just a few days ahead of his 90th birthday, the 14th Dalai Lama announced at Dharamshala in India, where the headq...

Rubio’s Visit Sends Strong Message To China And The Region – Analysis

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Collins Chong Yew Keat Source Link By reaffirming its commitment to the region through Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s attendance at this w...

Chinese satellites complete groundbreaking mission 22,000 miles above Earth

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Sophia Compton Source Link China's space program took a major stride this past week as two of its satellites seemingly docked together ...

Xi Jinping is waging a proxy war against Trump in Ukraine

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Source Link Beware of fiery Chinese dragons proffering peace proposals to end the bloody fighting in Ukraine. They are not what they seem to...

Political Conclusions of the 2025 BRICS Summit

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Source Link On July 6–7, the BRICS held their seventeenth summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Created in 2009 the BRICS underwent an expansio...

Israel, the Ultimate Realist

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Source Link From its founding in 1948 to its bombardments of Gaza to its new goal of regime change in Iran, Israel has consistently behaved ...

A New Nuclear Role for Britain and France.

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Source Link Of the various agreements signed during President Macron’s state visit to London, the Prime Minister has been inclined to stress...