The journal of defence technology and strategic futures
“Basic research is the pacemaker of technological progress.” — Vannevar Bush, Science, the Endless Frontier, 1945[^bush1945] Overarching epistemic status:…
What sits in today’s open literature, dismissed, the way Ufimtsev’s math once sat in a Soviet drawer? Epistemic label: SPECULATIVE….
What the law of armed conflict actually settles about autonomous targeting — and what it genuinely leaves open International humanitarian…
What thirty years of biomimetic disappointment can teach us about reading the field’s genuine crossings There is a particular kind…
The post-2024 research diaspora is a measurable strategic input — if you read the flows honestly and resist the headline…
Persistent Identity in Biological Media Epistemic Label: Possible | TRL 3–4 | Reporting period: through Q2 2026 In the…
Where training-grade compute is made, held, and fought over — the third axis of bloc-level competition, as of August 2026…
Strategic deception has passed through three generations; the third one takes aim at the reasoning machine, and it changes what…
— Founding Editorial“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.”