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Defense & Security
Military affairs, national security, intelligence, cybersecurity, maritime security, defense industries and strategic issues.
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The Defense & Security section covers military affairs, national security, intelligence, cybersecurity, maritime security, defense industries and strategic issues. It examines the doctrines, capabilities, institutions, alliances and technological changes shaping security policy.
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Binance: $6.3 Billion and the New Frontiers of Financial Warfare
On October 29, 2026, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange suffered an estimated $6.3 billion theft. Attributed by the FBI to a group linked to North Korea, the operation extends far beyond a conventional financial cyberattack. It exposes the vulnerabilities of digital infr
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Defense & SecurityMilitary AI: The Battle for the Final Say
There is now a new way to become a risk to US national security: build a technology capable of serving the military, then decide that it should not be allowed to do everything.
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Defense & SecurityEurope: Defence Begins to Change Scale
On one side, there are €325 million. On the other, an ambition approaching €190 billion. Between the two lies perhaps the most important element: an architecture Europe has never truly built before.
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Defense & SecurityYanbu: Defending the Backup Route
For decades, the Gulf’s oil vulnerability seemed reducible to a single point on the map: the Strait of Hormuz.
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Defense & SecurityRussia: The War of Saturation Changes Scale
On the night of September 19–20, Moscow was not simply attacked. It confronted a scale of threat that is gradually changing the geography of the war in Ukraine.
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Defense & SecurityDefense: Europe Is Starting to Build a Sovereign Alternative to American Command AI
For years, European strategic autonomy was measured in fighter jets, tanks, missiles and satellites.
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Defense & SecurityWashington Opens the F-35 to Saudi Arabia
For years, the boundary was relatively clear. The United States sold Gulf monarchies some of its most advanced military systems, but the F-35 remained in a separate category. In the Middle East, Israel was the only operator of the American stealth fighter.
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Defense & SecurityTungsten: Washington Takes a Stake in Mineral Security
The United States is no longer simply trying to buy critical minerals. By committing $450 million to Elmet Group while securing up to $2 billion in potential purchases for the national stockpile, Washington is building a tungsten supply chain in which the state finances supply, organizes sourcing and guarantees part of the demand.
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Defense & SecuritySyria: Russia retains its Mediterranean foothold
Russia no longer holds the position in Syria that it enjoyed under Bashar al-Assad. But it has not left.
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Defense & SecurityBeneath the Oceans, the Arteries of Digital Power
The digital economy favors aerial metaphors. Data circulates through the “cloud,” companies deploy “dematerialized” services, markets operate in real time, and communications appear to travel instantaneously through a borderless space. Yet this representation conceals a far more