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Ten Weapons at Eurosatory 2026 That Prove War Has Completely Changed
Almost every serious system on display is an answer to a question the war in Ukraine asked out loud
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The Weekly Preflight: 5 Things to Watch in Global Security | Week of June 15, 2026
Ebola is moving faster than contact tracers can follow
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The Rear Area Is Dead - The Battlefield is Coming Home
Since 1946, Americans, Canadians, Europeans, and ANZACs fought their wars somewhere else. That era is over.
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Video: Britain's Drone-Proven Martlet Missile Is Headed to Ukraine. 6,000 of Them
In case you missed the video today on YouTube
Jun 13
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Ukraine's Franken-BMP: Soviet Hull, Spanish Automated Turret, Modern War
Ukraine took a Soviet-era BMP, bolted on a Spanish remote turret with modern optics and a stabilized 30mm cannon, and essentially told the vehicle…
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The Men Who Thought Hard Work Would Save Them
What Terrence Malick's movie The Tree of Life understands about failure, fatherhood, and the bargain a lot of men were quietly raised to believe
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If the Future of Airpower is Unmanned, Why Did Sweden Just Build a Two-Seat Gripen?
Everyone keeps saying the future of air combat is unmanned. So why did Saab just roll out a brand-new two-seat fighter?
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Canada's Mixed Fleet of F-35s and Gripens Would Actually Be a Big Advantage
'One fighter to rule them all' is a vulnerability
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Canada Wants Sweden's GlobalEye over America's Wedgetail - No American Eyes on Their Arctic
Canada passed on Boeing. The reason has nothing to do with the radar
Jun 8
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The Weekly Preflight: 5 Things to Watch in Global Security | Week of June 8, 2026
The ceasefire is gone, a 7.8 hit the Philippines on the same morning, the Fear index is reading like March 2020, Ukraine is hitting trains in Crimea…
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Russia Has Been Jamming GPS From Space, and Almost Nobody Noticed
A Veritasium investigation into research from UT Austin traced years of mysterious GPS blackouts over Europe to a Russian missile-warning satellite.
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US Plans to Cut NATO’s Rapid Response Force
The US wants Europe to carry more of the alliance's rapid-response burden. The problem is that the missing pieces are the hardest ones to replace
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