Months and years
The June 2025 war on Iran depleted roughly half of US Patriot, half of US THAAD and half of US SM-3 inventories, plus more than …
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Tagged: Defence Policy
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Joint force model: Europe + Canada, minus US (open planning document)
This is a working planning document, not a finished argument. It maps the bloc current capability, the 2036 target, and the calendar of decisions required …
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Eurenco: the small French company at the heart of European defence
Europe's munitions ceiling is set by a handful of energetic-chemistry plants, not by yards or steel. Eurenco is the state-controlled French company at the centre …
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Ireland's defence is cyber, and the politics needs to catch up
Three quarters of Northern Hemisphere subsea cables pass through or near Irish waters. The Defence Forces have just signed a €60 million Thales sonar contract …
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The post-American defence bloc that has no name
A defence bloc has been built in stages since June 2025: the Canada-EU Security and Defence Partnership, the SAFE accession, Macron's forward deterrence with eight …
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Forward deterrence: what Macron actually said at Île-Longue
Macron's 2 March 2026 speech at the Île-Longue submarine base did four things at once: announced the first French nuclear arsenal expansion since 1992, stopped …
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This Is Not Normal
You already know something is wrong. You've known for a while. The news cycle confirms it daily: climate collapse accelerating past every guardrail, genocide broadcast …
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The Map That Cannot Be Printed
The phrase "new world order" has been in circulation for so long, in so many registers, by so many speakers with so many different intentions, …
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The Fab and the Island
For two decades, the strategic conversation about Taiwan has been organised around the wrong question. The wrong question is whether China will invade Taiwan, and …
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It Is Too Much
It is too much. That is the first thing to say, and most of the writing about the present moment will not say it, because …
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The Blockade That Blinked
On Sunday, a Russian oil tanker called the Anatoly Kolodkin was sailing at 12 knots off the eastern tip of Cuba, carrying 730,000 barrels of …
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The Blue Line in the Sand
On Sunday morning, an Indonesian peacekeeper was killed by a projectile that struck a United Nations position near the village of Adchit Al Qusayr, in …
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