The Weekly Preflight: 5 Things to Watch in Global Security | Week of May 18, 2026
Five things to watch this week and what could break next in war, defense tech, and geopolitics
Think of this as your weekly strategic weather report exclusively for paid subscribers. Five things to watch and what could break next in war, defense tech, and geopolitics. Just the pressure points most likely to shape the next seven days.
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Let’s jump in. As always, links in the text if you want to read the sources:
BLUF:
A nuclear plant under drone attack, an Ebola emergency with Americans caught inside it, the largest Ukrainian drone strike on Moscow on record, a regime executing its dissidents at Cold War-era rates, and the NPT on its last week of life. Stay sharp.
1. Some A-hole Hit a Nuclear Power Plant
Three drones entered the UAE from the western border on Sunday. Two were intercepted by air defenses. The third struck an electrical generator outside the inner perimeter of the Barakah Nuclear Energy Plant in the Al Dhafra region, igniting a fire.
