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Endless Frontier, Edited Forward

Vannevar Bush’s 1945 report was not a funding memo — it was an ecosystem manifesto. A reconstruction of the architectural…

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The Soviet Equation

Ufimtsev’s 1962 paper was ignored by the Soviet establishment and became the foundation of stealth. What are the contemporary equivalents…

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The Targeting Question

International humanitarian law was not written for autonomous targeting. A legal annotation of the live questions — identifying where genuine…

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Borrowed Geometry

Biomimetics has underdelivered relative to its hype for thirty years. A measured primer mapping where the field actually is —…

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Where the Brains Went

The post-2024 academic diaspora is a measurable strategic input. US visa instability, European faculty constraints, and the rise of frontier…

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DNA as Substrate

Information storage in DNA is moving from speculative to early operational. A strategic primer on the autonomous-systems implication — TRL-honest,…

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The Compute Map

Compute has become the third axis of bloc-level competition. The geography of training-grade compute, supply-chain chokepoints, and the policy regimes…

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From Palladium to Cognition

Strategic deception has moved through three generations — doctrinal, operational, and now cognitive: deception operating against the perceptual and reasoning…

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From the Editor

“The most interesting thinking on defence technology today is being done by people whose names you will not yet recognise. Our purpose is to make them impossible to ignore.”

— Founding Editorial