Security, Cyber & Counter-Threats examines the evolving landscape of digital conflict, hybrid warfare, and threat mitigation in an increasingly networked world.
This magazine covers cyber operations, information warfare, digital resilience, and security architectures shaping modern defense and intelligence ecosystems.
Designed for analysts, policymakers, and technology leaders, it delivers actionable insights into how states and non-state actors compete, defend, and adapt in the information age.
Strategic Context The carbon challenge is entering a new phase. The question is no longer simply how quickly the world can reduce emissions, but whether it can permanently remove and safely store enough carbon dioxide to deal with residual emissions…...
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Strategic Context Artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming critical infrastructure for the digital economy, government, defence and national security. Large language models, autonomous agents, AI-enabled decision systems and machine-learning platforms are moving from experimental environments into operational networks where failures or…...
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Introduction: Strategic Context — Intelligence Advantage in an Age of Algorithmic Uncertainty Counterterrorism is entering a new phase of technological competition. Generative artificial intelligence (AI) can translate communications, summarize intelligence reports, analyze large document collections, identify patterns across open-source information,…...
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Introduction: GEOINT Becomes the Digital Backbone of Modern Warfare The modern battlefield is no longer defined solely by firepower but by information superiority. From Ukraine and the Middle East to the Indo-Pacific and Arctic, military success increasingly depends on the…...
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Introduction: Strategic Context Artificial intelligence has rapidly evolved from a decision-support capability into a core element of modern military power. Across contemporary battlefields, AI now enables autonomous drones, unmanned ground vehicles, precision targeting, electronic warfare, intelligence analysis, logistics optimization, missile…...
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Introduction: Biotechnology Becomes a Strategic Technology for the Planet Biotechnology is undergoing its most profound transformation since the emergence of recombinant DNA technology nearly five decades ago. What began as a revolution in medicine has evolved into a foundational technology…...
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Introduction: Why Software Vulnerabilities Have Become a Strategic Security Challenge Every digital system—from smartphones and cloud platforms to fighter aircraft, satellites, industrial control systems, financial networks, hospitals, and military command centers—depends on software. As software has become the foundation of…...
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Introduction: Programming Biology to Fight Climate Change Climate change has evolved from an environmental challenge into a defining issue of economic resilience, industrial competitiveness, national security, and geopolitical stability. Despite rapid expansion of renewable energy, electrification, and carbon capture technologies,…...
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Introduction: 5G Has Become the Digital Battlefield of the Twenty-First Century The global race to deploy fifth-generation (5G) wireless networks has evolved far beyond faster smartphones and higher data rates. Today, 5G forms the digital nervous system connecting military forces,…...
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Strategic Context: The Race to Attribute Engineered Biology The twenty-first century has witnessed a revolution in synthetic biology, genome editing, and artificial intelligence that is transforming medicine, agriculture, and biotechnology. The same technologies, however, are also reshaping biological security. Gene…...
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