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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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The New Space Race: How Reusable Rockets, Autonomous Aircraft and Orbital Logistics Are Reshaping Military Power and the Space Economy
Strategic Context: From Space Access to Space Logistics The defining transformation of the new space race is no longer simply the ability to reach orbit. It is the emergence of an integrated logistics architecture capable of moving people, cargo, energy, spacecraft and eventually extraterrestrial resources through an increasingly populated Earth–Moon system. Reusable launch vehicles, autonomous…
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Silicon Carbide (SiC): The Wide-Bandgap Semiconductor Revolution Transforming Electric Mobility, Aerospace, AI Infrastructure, and Defense Systems
Introduction The global semiconductor industry is undergoing one of its most significant transitions since the invention of the silicon integrated circuit. As electrification accelerates across transportation, aerospace, renewable energy, artificial intelligence infrastructure, industrial automation, and military systems, conventional silicon power electronics are approaching their physical performance limits. The result is a worldwide shift toward Wide…
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Laser-Based Technologies in Space Exploration: How Advanced Spectroscopy is Powering Planetary Discovery, Lunar Resource Prospecting, and the Future Space Economy
Introduction As humanity enters a new era of sustained lunar exploration, Mars sample return, commercial space development, and future missions to the outer Solar System, understanding the composition of planetary surfaces has become a strategic capability rather than merely a scientific objective. Every future mission—whether searching for signs of ancient life, identifying water ice, locating…
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The Cislunar Race: How the Earth–Moon Economy Is Becoming the Next Strategic Battleground
Introduction: The New Great Game Beyond Earth For more than half a century, cislunar space—the vast region stretching from geostationary orbit to the Moon—was largely viewed as a scientific frontier. Today it has become one of the most strategically contested domains of the twenty-first century. Governments no longer see the Moon merely as a destination…
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The GEOINT Revolution: How AI, Commercial Space, and Multi-Source Intelligence Are Transforming Military Decision Superiority
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 ability to collect, fuse, analyze, and disseminate geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) faster than adversaries can react.…
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Synthetic Biology in Agriculture: Engineering Climate-Resilient Crops and the Future of Global Food Security
Introduction: Synthetic Biology Becomes a Strategic Pillar of Global Food Security Agriculture is entering one of the most disruptive technological transformations since the Green Revolution. Climate change, water scarcity, soil degradation, fertilizer shortages, and geopolitical disruptions have fundamentally altered how nations view food production. Food security has become national security, making advanced agricultural biotechnology a…
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AI in Warfare: Israel’s Integration of Advanced Military Technologies, Battlefield AI, and the Future of Algorithmic Conflict
Introduction: AI Warfare Enters a New Strategic Era Artificial intelligence has become one of the defining technologies reshaping modern military power. Rather than merely supporting logistics or intelligence analysis, AI is increasingly becoming an operational component of combat itself, influencing how militaries collect intelligence, prioritize targets, coordinate forces, defend against missile attacks, conduct cyber operations,…
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