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 For more than a century, firearms have depended on essentially the same fundamental mechanism: chemical energy stored in a propellant is rapidly converted into pressure, accelerating a projectile through a barrel. The emergence of practical electromagnetic launch technologies…...
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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…...
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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…...
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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…...
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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: From Wireless Connectivity to Electromagnetic Intelligence The next phase of wireless competition will not be determined solely by faster radios, larger antenna arrays, or additional spectrum. It will increasingly depend on the ability to control the physical environment through…...
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A New Naval Technology Strategy for an Accelerating Battlespace The U.S. Navy is entering a period in which technological superiority can no longer be measured simply by the sophistication of individual ships, aircraft, submarines or weapons. The decisive advantage increasingly…...
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Introduction: Strategic Context Between the operational domains of conventional aviation and orbital spacecraft lies a difficult-to-access region of Earth’s atmosphere. The mesosphere, extending approximately from 50 to 85 kilometres in altitude, overlaps with the broader near-space region often discussed as…...
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Introduction: From Wireless Convenience to Commercial Infrastructure Wireless power transfer (WPT) is evolving into a diverse commercial technology sector spanning consumer electronics, electric vehicles, industrial automation, medical devices, logistics, and the Internet of Things. What began as a way to…...
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