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Defense Tech: Year in Review

Autonomous Space Ops

Australia's Worst Terror Attack in 30 Years

Special Edition: Europe's Defense Moment

From Narcoterrorist Boats to Sanctioned Oil Tankers

Moonquakes and Space Jams

The NSS Promises Tech Leadership—But Offers No Plan to Achieve It

The Next War is Coming and it Could be the Biggest Yet

SPECIAL REPORT: SECDEF RISKED FORCE, MISSION THROUGH IMPROPER USE OF COMMS

Issacman Confirmation Hearing 2.0

'Kill Everyone'

The Death of the Constellation-Class Frigate

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth Has Lost The Plot

Peace For Our Time?

Six Technologies the Pentagon Thinks Will Win the Next War

The Defense Industry Finally Wakes Up

AI Companies are Inflating Their Numbers

Big Changes in Defense Tech

The Beauty and the Blackout

Concerns of an AI Bubble Grow

Growing Competition in the Global South

Space-Based Data Centers Are Suddenly Big Business

Xi Kowtows to Trump--or Something Like That

🎃 Spooktober's over, Nuketober begins 🚀

Eighty-Nine Seconds to Catastrophe

The Sharpest Knife Cuts the Cleanest: Technology as a Lever in the U.S.-China Decoupling

Public Defense Companies Are Raking In Record Profits

UFOs, Space Debris, Weather Balloons, Swamp Gas, and Man-Children

Poison in the Well: Data Attacks on Military AI

Five Frontiers of Future Warfare

The Pentagon’s Gag Order: Hegseth’s War on Truth

Robbing Peter to Pay (Sergeant) Paul

Balancing on a Knife’s Edge

Turning Sunlight into Sovereignty

Simulation Theory Confirmed

Aesthetics as Strategy

Too Long, Every Time

Government Shutdown Looms

Lethality by Photo-Op

Space News: 24 September 2025

Quantum Surprise is Coming

Entry Points

Golden Dome’s Escalation Spiral

The Ghosts of Cybersyn

The Fourth "R": Risk

The Moonshot We're About to Lose

Two-Level Loser's Game

Podcast: Beijing on Parade

The Department of Performative Badassery

Caribbean Cartels and Cislunar Commands

Zen and the Art of Raking Leaves

JCIDS is Dead! Long Live JCIDS!

Russia Still Sucks.

An Ominous 'Black Moon' Rises

Shaking up the Pentagon's AI Enterprise

Allies, Autonomy, and Acceleration

The Moon Is Not America’s to Claim

The Alaska Two-Step: Jack and Shit

Allies, Assets, and the Art of Winning Together

War’s Most Precious Commodity: Time

Disrupting the Mesh: China Eyes Lasers and Sabotage to Counter Starlink

Bubble or Battlefield?

The Split in the Spear

Blowing Things Up to Move Forward

Fancy Bear Gets Smarter

Fear, Honor, and Interest: Thucydides’ Guide to U.S.-China Rivalry

Happy Birthday Dan Goldin!

The AI Honey Trap

Podcast: Axis of Autocracy

The Myth of Declining Lethality

A world in flux, a space in motion

Magicians Never Show Their Trick Twice - Musk Should Learn That

The Perils Within: Reassessing America's Security Priorities

Building Slow, Falling Behind: The Crisis in American Shipbuilding

The Dance of Satellites

Quantum Leaps

Exitus in Dubio Est: Liberty in the Balance

The 'Big, Beautiful Bill' and Golden Dome Missile Defense

The Senate's $3.8 Trillion Magic Trick

Late, Flat, and Fragmented

Super Secret Squirrel Intel and the Risks to National Security

U.S. Strikes Iranian Nuclear Facilities

Podcast: Lessons from the Middle East

Missiles and Markets

Missiles, Alliances, and the Exhaustion of Defense

Missiles, Quantum, and AI Smugglers: Just Another Weekend

Israel Just Reset the Middle East

Deals on Earth, Crashes on the Moon

Well, well, well, how the turn tides

Podcast: Playing the Trump Card

Alliances and the Architecture of Victory

The Space Billionaire Purge Begins

Operation Spiderweb: The Future isn't FPV--it's autonomous, distributed, and lethal

Podcast: Shangri-La and the Shadow of War

From Guerillas to Gliders

The Co-Orbital Threat

Quantum Shadows, AI Frontlines

Podcast: Beyond the Buzz: FPV Drones, DoD Reality, and the Future Fight

Surrendering the Mind: How Disinformation is Winning the War We've Stopped Fighting

China Doesn't Want the U.S. to Have Golden Dome

Less than 12 Parsecs: Lessons from Kessel Run

Podcast: Operation Sindoor and the Future of War

The Real Price of Peace Through Strength

Taking Off the Gloves: U.S. Loosens Rules on Offensive Counterspace Ops

Lessons from Project Maven

Podcast: Signals in the Static: The Battle for the Spectrum

The Invisible War: China's Race to Own the Electromagnetic Spectrum

Defunding the High Ground

The DoD Doesn't Know How to Apply AI

Unicorns and Security Shake-Ups

You Can’t Outfox the Fox: Playing Putin's Game

Elon’s $20B Blitz, China’s Quantum Leap, and the Race for Tech Dominance

The Future of Frontier Tech is Being Written--In Chinese

Podcast: Dirty Lines and Dirty Politics: Chaos at the Pentagon

You're a Dirty, Dirty Boy, Mr. Secretary

Podcast: Are we Building the Golden Dome with Fool's Gold?

Are we Building the Golden Dome with Fool's Gold?

Podcast: Using AI to Prevent Pentagon Clown-Shows

When the SecDef Is the Insider Threat: Toward AI-Secured Comms

Podcast: How to Win in a Zero-Sum Defense Market: 7 Tactical Lessons

How to Win in a Zero-Sum Defense Market: 7 Tactical Lessons

Pearl Harbor in Space

Pearl Harbor in Space? NATO Warns of Russian Nuclear Threat

Stealth AI Models Are All the Rage

Stealth AI Models Are All The Rage

Pentagon Programs Under Fire

Pentagon Programs Under Fire

Is it Time for Weapons in Space?

Is it Time for Weapons in Space?

Semiconductors are Spared from Tariffs--for Now

The Ocean Floor is the Frontline

We See Your Aircraft Carrier and Raise You an Orbital Carrier

Who knew Elon Musk was a magician?

Encrypted Chaos: The Signal Leak and Its Fallout in Washington

Space-Related News for 26 March 2025

Need-to-Know Basis: Did the Pentagon Just Crash Its Own System?

Rebooting Seapower: Investing in Attritable Vessels to Win Tomorrow’s Maritime Conflicts

Pew Pew: The Space Force Wants Space Lasers

Party internal fights are all the rage and could hurt our technological advantages

DoD Priorities: Beards Over Strategy

Deep sea space stations

China's Quantum Chip is 1,000,000x faster than Google's

The Fallacy of the 'Unwinnable War'

Cislunar is the Suez Canal of Space

Training AI on Fed Data

Innovation Over the Hype: SBIR / STTR or "America's Seed Fund"

Mars Can Wait: Why America Must Prioritize Cislunar Space

Military gets a new chairman, Musk demands to know what fed employees are doing, and xAI ain't as good as they say

3 Prominent Tech Reporters got Defense Tech Wrong--Here's the Real Story

The Space Force Wake-Up Call: Security Breaches, Cost Battles, and the Next Space Race

The Hidden Shortcut in Nature: How Quantum Tunneling Lets Particles Break the Rules

Everything you know about national power is wrong

Inside the $19.55B IRON DOME Act: What Senate Bill 435 Means for U.S. Missile Defense

Quantum computing is coming faster than you think, and cars can explain it

U.S. to own Gaza, get rare earths from Ukraine

Aim for the Moon, not Mars to ensure security and economic opportunities

DeepSeek has upended the AI industry, with a lie (or two)

Techno-Military Optionality: Ensuring Success in Future Wars

Building an Iron Dome for America: Hope, Hype, & Hard Truths

Musk pouts about being left out of Stargate AI project; beware of Chinese AI tech

China claims Death Star like directed energy weapon

Top, eccentric space dude busted as fraudster--at least in gaming

Schrödinger's TikTok: both banned and not banned at the same time

A look back at innovation and tech adoption in Biden's DoD, the path ahead, and a jab at our friends

Useful Idiots: American 'TikTok Refugees' play into CCP's hands. A new lunar race is on. We still only have 1x heavy launch provider.

Nvidia CEO has single-handedly tanked the Quantum Computing public market--and he was wrong anyway

Trump, Greenland, and the Panama Canal: America's Strategic Future?

Launch cadence slows in 2025's first week, but will bounce back soon

Winter Storm Blair brings cold temps, perfect for quantum computing as China's military AI systems could backfire.

The boys are not alright: geopolitical instability, cyberwarfare, domestic terrorism, and new threat technologies