Digital battlefields, hybrid warfare, and the future of threat intelligence
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Why This Magazine Exists
Security, Cyber & Counter-Threats examines the evolving landscape of modern security in an era defined by digital conflict, hybrid warfare, and persistent global threats.
From cyber operations, information warfare, and intelligence-driven defense to counter-terrorism, internal security, and emerging threat vectors, this magazine provides strategic analysis, technical insight, and policy-relevant perspectives for decision-makers, practitioners, and researchers navigating an increasingly contested security environment.
What We Track
- Cyber warfare & cyber defense
- Information operations & influence campaigns
- National security threat assessments
- Emerging digital and hybrid warfare doctrines
- Critical infrastructure & cyber resilience
Latest Analysis & Intelligence
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DARPA EQUIP-A-Pharma: The Future of On-Demand Drug Manufacturing for Military Readiness and National Health Security
Introduction: Strategic Context — Pharmaceutical Supply Chains as a National Security Vulnerability Modern military operations depend on a reliable supply of pharmaceuticals, from essential antibiotics and pain medications to treatments for chronic conditions and emergency medical countermeasures. Yet pharmaceutical supply chains remain exposed to concentrated manufacturing capacity, dependence on overseas suppliers and precursor chemicals, transportation…
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Direct Satellite-to-Mobile Connectivity: The Race to Turn Smartphones into Global Network Terminals
Introduction: From Cell Towers to a Hybrid Space-Earth Network What if the next major expansion of the mobile network does not require another cell tower? Direct satellite-to-mobile, commonly referred to as Direct-to-Device (D2D), connectivity is moving from an experimental concept toward an important new layer of global communications infrastructure. Instead of requiring dedicated satellite phones…
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Taiwan’s Military Renaissance: Advanced Capabilities for a Double-Level Deterrence
Taiwan is transforming its defense posture from a conventional force designed primarily to survive an attack into a distributed, networked and increasingly unmanned military architecture designed to make coercion, blockade and invasion prohibitively costly. Strategic Context The Taiwan Strait is entering a new phase in which the central military question is no longer simply whether…
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The AI-Cybersecurity Imperative: From Global Standards to Strategic Action
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 manipulation can have consequences far beyond the software itself. This creates a fundamental security dilemma.…
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Quantum Repeaters and the Race to Build a Global Quantum Internet
Introduction: Strategic Context — From Quantum Communication to Network Infrastructure The race to build a quantum internet is moving beyond isolated quantum communication experiments toward the development of interconnected networks capable of distributing entanglement between distant quantum devices. Unlike the classical internet, which transmits information through electrical and optical signals that can be regenerated by…
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Engineered Optical Materials and Metagratings: The Race to Lightweight Augmented Reality
How nanophotonics, adaptive materials, metasurfaces and single-layer waveguides are reshaping AR glasses for defense, industry and next-generation computing Introduction: The Optical Bottleneck Behind the AR Revolution Augmented reality has a deceptively simple objective: place digital information into the user’s field of view without preventing the user from seeing the real world. Achieving that objective, however,…
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Hybrid Space Propulsion: The Technology Enabling Agile Small Satellites and Deep-Space Missions
Introduction: From Propulsion Tradeoff to Space Mobility For decades, spacecraft propulsion has been governed by a fundamental compromise. Chemical propulsion provides the thrust needed for rapid orbital maneuvers, insertion and avoidance, but consumes propellant quickly. Electric propulsion offers extraordinary propellant efficiency and high specific impulse, yet produces relatively small amounts of thrust and therefore requires…
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