On 7 April 2026, Anthropic published a 240-page system card for a model called Claude Mythos and, in the same breath, announced that it would not make the model generally available. The reason is not that it failed. The reason is that it was too good at finding and exploiting
March 2026 | San Francisco RSA Conference 2026 is in full swing in San Francisco, and the Moscone Center is doing what it does every year: pulling in tens of thousands of security professionals, vendors, analysts, and policymakers from across the globe. The conversations inside are in full flow. The keynotes
At a moment when great power competition has returned as the organising logic of international security, when artificial intelligence is reshaping how militaries decide and act, and when the political systems of the West are under pressures their architects did not anticipate, it is worth returning to a book that
Most tools that track grey zone and hybrid conflict stop at the edge of the atmosphere. They cover maritime harassment, proxy operations, cyber intrusions, electronic warfare on the ground. Some do it well. But the moment a conflict extends into orbital space, the picture goes dark. Satellite proximity operations, space-based
Ambiguity. That's the weapon of choice in orbit right now. Not missiles, not kinetic kill vehicles, not the explosive ASAT tests that generate headlines and debris fields. The real contest for space superiority is being fought with manoeuvres that could be maintenance or could be rehearsals for attack,
Offence. That’s the word that defines what the White House released on 6 March 2026. Not resilience, not defence, not cooperation. Offence. It was also released quietly, with remarkably little fanfare, while Washington’s attention was fixed elsewhere: the expanding US-Israel conflict with Iran, which by then had already
If Day 1 at Mobile World Congress confirmed that space is being woven into the fabric of mobile networks, Day 2 showed something harder to headline but arguably more important: the ecosystem around that shift is broader, more layered, and accelerating faster than most public commentary acknowledges. This is no
Mobile World Congress 2026 kicked off this week, and walking the halls on the first day, it was clear that a pattern had quickly emerged. Satellite connectivity is no longer being marketed as a niche solution for remote villages or maritime users. It is being embedded into the core architecture
Thirty-seven years. That’s how long Ali Khamenei held the Islamic Republic together, through sanctions, proxy wars, nuclear brinkmanship, and wave after wave of popular uprising. He survived an assassination attempt that cost him the use of his right arm. He survived Saddam. He survived the Green Movement, the Mahsa
After months of research and development, I'm excited to announce that SwarmWatch is now live. This interactive tool tracks the explosive growth of mega-constellations and provides real-time visibility into one of the most significant transformations happening in space today. Why SwarmWatch Matters When I began researching mega-constellations for
Blue Origin just filed plans for a 5,408-satellite constellation. Not a consumer broadband play. Not a Starlink clone. Something different: an enterprise-grade, multi-orbit data backbone designed to move up to six terabits per second across the planet. They’re calling it TeraWave, and it tells us something important about
Superiority. That's the word that jumped out when Trump signed his latest space executive order on 18th December 2025. Not leadership. Not cooperation. Superiority. Language matters in policy documents, and this one doesn't hide what it is: a declaration that cislunar space, from very low orbit
Software used to wait for you. You opened an application, clicked buttons, filled in forms, and told it exactly what to do. That era is ending. A new class of AI systems doesn't wait for instructions mid-task. It takes a goal, breaks it into steps, picks up tools,
On the morning of 28 January 1986, ice hung from the launch tower at Cape Canaveral. Engineers knew the temperature was unusually low, colder than anything the Space Shuttle programme had experienced before. They also knew that parts of the shuttle’s solid rocket boosters behaved unpredictably in the cold.
When the President of the United States says America “needs” Greenland for defence, he’s not making a real estate pitch. He’s signalling that Arctic access is now a strategic entitlement question, not a diplomatic one. A day after the Venezuela operation, Trump pivoted back to Greenland. Denmark’s
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The United States just abducted a head of state, and the weapon that made it possible wasn’t a carrier group, it was a tariff schedule. Over the weekend, the Trump administration launched a military operation inside Venezuela, captured Nicolás Maduro, and transferred him to New York to face charges.
America’s 2025 National Security Strategy A British view from the alliance front line When the United States publishes a fresh National Security Strategy, Europeans tend to check the headlines, confirm that the transatlantic link still looks solid, and move on with their day. This one is different. The 2025
Nuclear
The United Kingdom has maintained a continuous at-sea deterrent (CASD) since 1969, code-named Operation Relentless, meaning at least one nuclear-armed submarine is always on patrol, hidden in the world's oceans.
Space
On a clear night, a speck of paint from a decommissioned satellite can still be hurtling towards the next generation of Earth-orbiting technology at more than 10 kilometres per second. With over 11,000 active satellites currently circling Earth and more than 1.2 million pieces of space debris larger
Thought Leader
The sky has changed, but our security playbooks have not. Satellites now underpin navigation, finance, logistics, media, and military operations. They are no longer rare, government-only assets. They are cloud-connected, software-defined, and commercially operated at scale. Yet much of cybersecurity still treats space as exotic and separate, a future problem
The first sign was not a missile launch, but a picture. At 06:42 Taipei time, a high‑resolution satellite image surfaced on a public imagery feed: a line of grey hulls pushing east from the Chinese coast, wakes cutting clean V‑shapes through the strait. Amateur analysts on X
Nuclear
Once, nuclear war haunted films, protests, and public imagination. Today, the fear has faded—but the threat hasn’t. This piece explores how we lost our nuclear anxiety, why that might be dangerous, and what we stand to forget if we stop paying attention.
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Orbits of Power: From Sputnik to Starlink © Jay Allen 2025 “It wasn’t the beep that scared them. It was the orbit.” On 4 October 1957, a polished metal sphere the size of a beach ball lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. It weighed just 83 kilograms and
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The Sky is Full © Jay Allen 2025 Above Ukraine, the Future Arrived Early In the opening days of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the war appeared to follow a familiar script. Tanks breached borders. Missiles rained on cities. Airstrikes lit the skies over Kyiv. Yet high