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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Exploring Graphene: The Future of Semiconductor Technology
Introduction: From Wonder Material to Post-Silicon Technology For more than half a century, the semiconductor industry has advanced by continuously shrinking and improving silicon transistors. That model is now encountering increasingly difficult physical, thermal and economic constraints. As artificial intelligence, high-performance computing, edge processing, 6G communications and autonomous systems demand dramatically greater computational throughput, the…
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Tantalum: The Obscure Metal That Could Become a Strategic Chokepoint in the Ukraine War
Introduction: The New Battlefield Beneath the Battlefield Modern wars are often measured in missiles launched, drones destroyed, territory captured and ammunition consumed. But beneath those visible indicators lies another contest—over the materials that make advanced weapons possible. Tantalum is one of those strategically obscure materials. It rarely appears in military headlines, yet its combination of…
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The Undersea Battlespace Revolution: Autonomous Warfare, Supercavitation, and the Strategic Race for Seabed Dominance
Strategic Context: The Ocean Floor Becomes a Contested Military Domain The next major naval confrontation may be shaped as much by what forces can detect, protect, and control beneath the ocean as by the ships, aircraft, and missiles operating above it. Underwater warfare is evolving beyond the traditional contest between submarines and anti-submarine forces into…
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DARPA OTTER: Air-Breathing Electric Propulsion and the Strategic Race to Control Very Low Earth Orbit
Introduction: Strategic Context — Opening a New Operational Regime Very Low Earth Orbit (VLEO), generally defined as the orbital region below approximately 450 kilometers and extending in some mission concepts to around 90 kilometers, is attracting renewed military and commercial interest. Operating closer to Earth can improve the spatial resolution of optical and radar sensors,…
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The Rise of Agentic AI: How Autonomous Testing Is Revolutionizing Quality Assurance
Introduction: Strategic Context Software development is entering an era in which the economics of creating code are changing faster than the economics of validating it. Generative AI and coding agents can translate natural-language requirements into software, modify entire repositories, debug implementations and increasingly perform multi-step engineering tasks with limited human intervention. Gartner now describes enterprise…
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The Intelligent Test Revolution: How AI and Machine Learning Are Transforming Testing and Measurement
Introduction: Strategic Context Testing and measurement is becoming a strategic technology rather than a downstream engineering function. As artificial intelligence, advanced semiconductors, autonomous platforms, software-defined vehicles, aerospace systems and connected infrastructure become more complex, the ability to verify their performance is becoming almost as important as the ability to design them. The central question is…
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The Counterterrorism AI Paradox: Why More Generative Power Demands More Human Judgment
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, and accelerate the preparation of assessments. At the same time, terrorist organizations and violent extremists…
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