Strategy, Policy & Governance examines how states, institutions, and power centers define objectives, design policies, and govern complex security and technology ecosystems. This magazine focuses on the strategic decision-making layer—where doctrine, policy, regulation, and long-term planning translate national intent into coordinated action across military, technological, economic, and societal domains.
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The Strategy, Policy & Governance magazine connects multiple strategic sub-domains that examine power, risk, and coordination from different angles.
Why This Magazine Exists
Modern power is not exercised through force alone. It is shaped by doctrine, policy frameworks, governance structures, and strategic coordination across institutions. This magazine exists to explain how strategic intent is formulated, how policy choices constrain or enable action, and how governance systems determine whether nations successfully adapt to emerging threats and technological change..
What We Track
This magazine tracks developments across the full space and advanced-domain security ecosystem, including:
- National security strategies and defense doctrines
- Policy frameworks governing defense, technology, and innovation
- Strategic planning, institutional coordination, and governance models
- Civil–military relations and decision-making structures
- Technology governance, regulation, and strategic control mechanisms
- Risk management, resilience planning, and long-term preparedness
Latest Analysis & Intelligence
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Threat of stealthy, smart and lethal sea mines driving development of new mine countermeasure platforms and systems
Beneath the waves lurks one of the oldest and most potent asymmetric threats in naval warfare: the sea mine. But the mines of today are not the simple contact explosives of World War II. They have evolved into stealthy, smart, and devastatingly lethal systems that can lie in wait for years, listening for the precise…
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Tech War: An Analysis of the Role of Military Technologies in the Russia-Ukraine Conflict
The ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict, which initially erupted in 2014 with the annexation of Crimea, has escalated dramatically since February 2022 when Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Despite Russia’s significant qualitative and quantitative advantages, Ukraine’s armed forces have mounted a formidable resistance, thwarting Russia’s initial expectations of a swift victory and transforming the conflict…
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The New Biotech Arms Race: How AI, CRISPR, and Great Power Competition Are Redefining National Security
Introduction: The Dual-Edged Sword of Biotechnology Biotechnology—the harnessing of cellular and molecular processes for technological innovation—has entered a new and disruptive era. From CRISPR gene editing to AI-driven drug discovery, breakthroughs in synthetic biology, genomics, and bioinformatics are reshaping medicine, agriculture, and industry. These advances hold tremendous promise: curing genetic diseases, boosting food security, and…
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Engineering Nature’s Defenses: How CRISPR, RNAi, and Synthetic Biology Are Revolutionizing Sustainable Agriculture
The Global Food Security Challenge As the global population races toward 10 billion by 2050, agriculture is under unprecedented strain. Farmers are tasked with boosting yields while simultaneously cutting back on practices that degrade the environment. Among the most formidable threats are pests and pathogens, which destroy up to 40% of global crop production each…
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China’s Quantum Satellites: Forging a Global Cybersecurity Frontier with Space-Based Unhackable Communication Networks
In today’s world, where cyber threats are growing in sophistication and critical infrastructures face unprecedented vulnerabilities, secure communication has become a matter of national and global security. The advent of quantum computing further heightens this urgency, as conventional encryption methods risk being rendered obsolete, exposing sensitive information to potential breaches. In response, China has emerged…
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The Digital Doomsday Clock: How Cyber Threats Are Forcing a Global Upgrade of Nuclear Command & Control
This article explores how cyber warfare is reshaping the future of nuclear security. As hackers gain the ability to disrupt sensors, communications, and decision-making networks, the risk of miscalculation in nuclear command and control (NC3) systems has never been greater. Nations are now racing to modernize these systems to protect against both physical and digital…
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China’s Shijian-19: A New Era in Reusable Satellites and Space-Based Innovation
China has taken another bold step in its rapidly advancing space program with the successful launch of the Shijian-19 satellite, a reusable spacecraft designed to support cutting-edge research in space breeding and critical technology demonstrations. Launched aboard a Long March rocket, the mission underscores China’s growing capabilities in reusable space systems and its strategic focus…
STRATEGIC SUB-MAGAZINES
The Strategy, Policy & Governance magazine connects multiple strategic sub-domains that examine power, risk, and coordination from different angles.
Geopolitics, Strategy & Technological Rivalries
Focuses on interstate competition, alliances, power balances, and long-term rivalry dynamics shaped by technology and economics.
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Global Risks & Future Threats
Examines systemic risks, emerging threat vectors, gray-zone challenges, and future conflict drivers beyond conventional war.
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Technology & Systems Management
Analyzes how complex defense and security systems are governed, integrated, regulated, and sustained across institutions..
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Related Domains & Cross-Cutting Themes
Strategy, Policy & Governance does not operate in isolation. Coverage within this magazine frequently intersects with Defense & Military Systems, Critical & Emerging Technologies, Industry, Markets & Supply Chains, Space Technology, Defense & Exploration Readers interested in deeper technical, industrial, or geopolitical dimensions are encouraged to explore related magazines across the IDST intelligence network.
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