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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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Ascending Horizons: The Evolution of Stratospheric Balloons and High-Altitude Surveillance
The Stratosphere Becomes a New Strategic Domain The boundary between air and space is becoming strategically important. At roughly 20–50 kilometres above Earth, the stratosphere sits above most conventional aircraft operations but below conventional satellite orbits. This unusual position gives high-altitude balloons and High-Altitude Platform Systems (HAPS) the potential to provide persistent surveillance, communications, electronic…
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Quantum Computing for Chemistry: From Theory to Practical Advantage
Strategic Context Quantum computing is entering a new phase in which the central question is no longer whether quantum processors can simulate chemistry, but whether they can become useful components of real scientific and industrial workflows. The most important change is not simply the rise in qubit counts. It is the emergence of quantum-centric supercomputing,…
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Quantum Magnetometers Enter the Commercial Market: Enabling GPS-Independent Navigation and a New Era of Precision Sensing
Introduction: Strategic Context — Quantum Sensing Moves from Laboratories to Operational Systems Quantum sensing is emerging as one of the most commercially relevant branches of quantum technology. While quantum computing continues to attract considerable investment and attention, quantum sensors are progressing toward practical applications in defence, aerospace, navigation, healthcare, geophysics, and industrial monitoring. Among these…
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Space Weather Intelligence: Building an Early-Warning Shield for Solar Storms and Orbital Resilience
. The New Space Weather Battlefield Weather is no longer an Earth-only phenomenon. As modern civilization becomes increasingly dependent on satellites, GNSS, aviation, telecommunications, power grids and digital infrastructure, disturbances originating 150 million kilometres away at the Sun have become a strategic technology risk. Solar flares, coronal mass ejections, solar energetic particles and geomagnetic storms…
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Satellite-Terrestrial Integrated Networks: Complementing 5G in Unserved Areas and Military Operations
Strategic Context What happens when a mobile network no longer ends at the edge of a cell tower? For decades, terrestrial cellular infrastructure has defined the boundaries of digital connectivity. Where fibre, towers and backhaul could not economically reach, connectivity remained intermittent, expensive or nonexistent. Mountains, oceans, deserts, remote communities, aircraft, ships and disaster zones…
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Deep Space Optical Communications: Breaking the Radio Barrier and Building a Laser-Powered Solar System Network
Introduction: Strategic Context — The Next Revolution in Space Communications For more than six decades, radio-frequency (RF) communications have provided the essential connection between Earth and spacecraft exploring the Moon, Mars, and the outer solar system. NASA’s Deep Space Network (DSN), supported by large antennas in California, Spain, and Australia, remains a critical element of…
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Locking Away Carbon: Innovations in Carbon Storage Technologies for a Climate-Resilient Future
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 from industries that are difficult to decarbonize. Carbon capture and storage has consequently moved from…
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