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….
International humanitarian law was not written for autonomous targeting. A legal annotation of the live questions — identifying where genuine…
Biomimetics has underdelivered relative to its hype for thirty years. A measured primer mapping where the field actually is —…
The post-2024 academic diaspora is a measurable strategic input. US visa instability, European faculty constraints, and the rise of frontier…
Persistent Identity in Biological Media Epistemic Label: Possible | TRL 3–4 | Reporting period: through Q2 2026 In the…
Compute has become the third axis of bloc-level competition. The geography of training-grade compute, supply-chain chokepoints, and the policy regimes…
Strategic deception has moved through three generations — doctrinal, operational, and now cognitive: deception operating against the perceptual and reasoning…
— 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.”