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Latest analysis · No. 054 · Sep 23, 2026
The Foreign Dependencies Inside China’s State AI Clouds
China can build domestic AI switches, but advanced silicon, optical components, and software integration still create a narrow foreign dependency that export controls can pressure. Read the analysis
Sep 23, 2026
Aurora's 96-MW Proof: Inside the Certification Bet on Software-Defined Grid Capacity
Aurora's 96-MW AI factory is the first designed to a power-flexibility certification standard; scaling the model hinges on whether grid operators…
Sep 21, 2026
The Sahel Juntas' Post-Wagner Arsenal: Drones, Air Defenses and What They Changed
Sep 19, 2026
AI Wingmen at the Merge: How Autonomous Drones Are Reshaping Airpower
Sep 15, 2026Replicator Promised Thousands of Autonomous Systems. The Public Count Stands at Hundreds
Sep 14, 2026
Inside the Pentagon's new vendor lane: how Anduril, Shield AI and Saronic actually get on the budget
Sep 13, 2026
Could a "Rogue AI" Cyberattack Push America Onto Stablecoin Rails?
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Sep 11, 2026
How LEO Mega-Constellations Reset the Calculus of Space Warfare
A few billion-dollar geosynchronous satellites are giving way to thousands of cheap LEO nodes; here is what that swap does to… -
Sep 08, 2026
Mamdani's 9/11 Records Release: What New York Officials Knew About Ground Zero's Toxic Air
Twenty-five years after the attacks, Mayor Mamdani released 170,000 pages of NYC 9/11 records. Here is what they reveal about the… -
Sep 07, 2026
Stress-Testing the American Empire: Real Decline or Cyclical Strain?
Interest costs, gold hoarding and allied rearmament say decline; chips, energy and capital markets say resilience. Here is the… -
Sep 05, 2026
The Architecture of Loyalty: How Trump's Coalition Absorbs Every Shock
Trump's grip on the Republican Party is not charisma; it is a system. How identity, sealed media, primaries, religious anchoring… -
Sep 05, 2026
China's quiet rare-earth chokepoint on U.S. defense and chip supply chains
Chinese rare-earth exporters are reportedly refusing U.S. orders even where licenses exist. Inside the licensing, sanctions, and… -
Sep 24, 2026
Tracked by Satellites, Defeated by Bills of Lading: Sanctions' Soft Underbelly
Western sanctions enforcement can track sanctioned ships by satellite, yet $6.9 billion still moved on forged invoices, because… -
Sep 24, 2026
10 Gigawatts Overhead: The Orbital Data Centers the FCC Reviews One Filing at a Time
SpaceX and Orbital Compute want to put AI data centers in orbit, filings that test whether the FCC can review a strategic system… -
Sep 19, 2026
The three-day shutdown: what actually breaks when Taiwan, helium, and rare earths fail together
U.S. planning treats Taiwan, helium, and rare earths as three separate chokepoints. The 2026 record says otherwise. A mapped… -
Sep 14, 2026
What breaks if China stops exporting rare-earth magnets tomorrow
One component, sintered NdFeB magnets, sits inside missiles, fighter jets, EVs, and surgical robots, and China makes over 90% of… -
Sep 12, 2026
China's Supply Chain Chokepoints: What De-Risking Costs, and Whether It Works
Export controls on minerals, medicines, circuit boards, and legacy chips have turned supply chains into instruments of coercion… -
Sep 07, 2026
After the Last Dollar: What Actually Catches People at Zero
When the money runs out in America, the fall rarely ends at zero. Mapped against federal data, the safety net, the debt industry… -
Sep 07, 2026
The Army's launched-effects bet: a faster upgrade cycle for autonomous strike systems
The Army's 2026 plan to field long-range launched effects from AEVEX, Griffon and Dragoon is a test of whether modular, competing… -
Sep 06, 2026
Isar's Spectrum Reached Orbit. The Test of European Space Sovereignty Starts Now.
Isar Aerospace's Spectrum finally delivered satellites to orbit from Norway, proving a private European rocket can fly. The… -
Sep 05, 2026
U.S. Grid Cyber Rules Are Finally Catching Up With Virtualized Operations
FERC now lets U.S. grid operators virtualize critical control systems; whether resilience outpaces the new risks depends on… -
Sep 05, 2026
The Army Is Turning Military Land Into an AI Compute Platform
Carlyle and CyrusOne won exclusive negotiations to build commercial hyperscale data centers on roughly 2,600 acres of Army land… -
Sep 05, 2026
Can a Satellite Network Be Sovereign if SpaceX Owns It? Hungary's 4iG Deal Will Test the Answer
Hungary's 4iG and SpaceX are building Starlink Mobile and "Sovereign Solutions" services, so the real question is what… -
Sep 05, 2026
U.S.-China AI talks could make autonomous cyberattacks a matter of strategic stability
Reuters reports the U.S. and China are preparing a mid-September AI safety dialogue. What it can realistically deliver: an… -
Sep 05, 2026
The East Micronesia Cable Turns Digital Resilience Into Regional Strategy
Six nations have completed the 2,250-kilometre East Micronesia Cable, wiring Nauru, Kiribati and Kosrae into the global internet… -
Sep 03, 2026
The Case for Roe v. Wade: What Fifty Years of Evidence Says About Women's Lives
An evidence-first argument that Roe v. Wade delivered measurable health gains, told honestly: what the national data after Dobbs… -
Sep 03, 2026
The Portsmouth experiment: can 10 gigawatts of AI compute avoid shifting grid costs onto its neighbors?
SoftBank, OpenAI, and NVIDIA are assembling 10 gigawatts of privately powered AI compute at a former uranium plant in Ohio… -
Sep 03, 2026
The Helium Chokepoint: What Qatar's Shutdown Revealed About Semiconductor Supply Chains
A war in the Gulf knocked out roughly a third of world helium supply in March 2026, exposing how little buffer stands between… -
Sep 03, 2026
Norway and Iceland Join GOVSATCOM and IRIS²: Europe Extends Its Secure Satellite Architecture Into the Arctic and North Atlantic
Norway and Iceland are joining GOVSATCOM and IRIS², moving Europe's sovereign secure-satellite architecture into the North… -
Sep 02, 2026
Three Mile Island Can Restart in 2027. The Grid May Not Take Its Power Until 2031.
Constellation plans to restart Three Mile Island in 2027 to power Microsoft data centers. PJM says the grid may not take its full… -
Sep 02, 2026
Orbital Grappling: Inside the Quiet U.S.–China Race to Build Maneuverable Spacecraft
A Chinese tug towed a dead satellite out of geostationary orbit in 2022. Both Washington and Beijing are now building spacecraft…
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