DEW - Directed-Energy Weapons

23-9-15 Directed Energy Weapons in Future Weaponry - nwyt > .

23-7-26 Ukraine tech sector goes to war | FT Doc > .

23-6-7 Ukrainian Defense Tech Boom - War Startups - U24 > .

> DEWs - Directed Energy Weapons >>  

24-2-19 Laser 7 Microwave Weapons - DEW Programs, Potential, Issues - Perun > .

23-9-15 Directed Energy Weapons in Future Weaponry - nwyt > .

23-8-4 Laser Weapons are About to Change Everything - T&P > .

23-7-26 Ukraine tech sector goes to war | FT Doc > .

23-6-7 Ukrainian Defense Tech Boom - War Startups - U24 > .

23-6-30 Directed Energy Weapons - Lasers vs Drones, Missiles - T&P > .

drones 

23-6-13 Drones and the Dystopian Future of War - Journeyman > .

22-11-11 Economics of Kamikaze Drones - nwyt > . skip > .

22-10-27 Pooti's [Desperate] Iranian Drones | Peter Zeihan, Ben Hodges > .

22-4-9 Drones, Missiles, Mercenaries in Future of Militaries - CNBC > .

2013 Rise of the Drones (FULL doc) | NOVA | PBS > .

Companies are now developing and deploying sophisticated new defences, from frying the electronic circuits with powerful beams of microwave radiation (phasers), to precise jamming systems.

A directed-energy weapon (DEW) is a ranged weapon that damages its target with highly focused energy without a solid projectile, including lasers, microwaves, particle beams, and sound beams. Potential applications of this technology include weapons that target personnel, missiles, vehicles, and optical devices. In the United States, the Pentagon, DARPA, the Air Force Research Laboratory, United States Army Armament Research Development and Engineering Center, and the Naval Research Laboratory are researching directed-energy weapons to counter ballistic missiles, hypersonic cruise missiles, and hypersonic glide vehicles. These systems of missile defense are expected to come online no sooner than the mid to late-2020s.

Xina, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Russia, India, and Pakistan are also developing military-grade directed-energy weapons, while Iran and Turkey claim to have them in active service. 

The first use of directed-energy weapons in combat between military forces was claimed to have occurred in Libya in August 2019 by Turkey, which claimed to use the ALKA directed-energy weapon. After decades of research and development, most directed-energy weapons are still at the experimental stage and it remains to be seen if or when they will be deployed as practical, high-performance military weapons.

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By programming a UAV to fly around numerous points before arriving at its target it can avoid the obvious directions from which an attack is expected. This may explain why existing radars failed to spot the drone formation which attacked Abqaiq.
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-49984415

Drones (UAVs) ..

EU's Future?

22-6-19 Macron loses absolute majority in French parliament | DW > .

24-7-1 French [Snap, Round 1] Election Results Explained - Simple > . comment .

23-9-20 UK ‘could join’ a two-tiered EU, even after Brexit | Olivier Costa > .

23-8-29 Demographics of The Visegrád Countries - KaiserBauch > .

23-7-31 Iron Curtain to Iron Fist: Viktor Orbán Redefining Hungary - Pers > .

23-1-28 Serbia's U-Turn on Ruscia - TLDR > .

23-1-23 BrexTWIT as deterrent | Europeans More Optimistic About EU > .

23-1-3 Macron's Neo-Gaullism - plans for hegemony - Caspian Report > .

22-12-30 Most disappointing politicians - VisPol > .

22-12-2 Austria, Hungary, Serbia, Croatia - Danube & Europe's Future - Kraut > .

22-10-14 HUNGARY | The West's Enemy Within? - J K-L > .

22-7-26 France's Hx & Geostrategic Choices in Central Europe - gtbt > .

22-7-22 Poland could become strongest land force in the EU - Binkov > .

22-7-21 Why Every NATO Member Joined (Why Others Haven't) - Spaniel > .

22-7-21 Political turmoil in Italy - Draghi resigns after coalition falls apart | DW > .

22-7-4 Intermarium: Is Strongest Union In Europe About To Appear? - Complete > .

22-5-9 Macron's Plan to Revive France - VisPol > .

22-3-23 Polish citizens join army b/o Russian invasion of Ukraine - BBC > .

2022 Why 2022 could see the end of Macron’s European dream - Telegraph > .

22-3-1 Germany Re-Arming - F-35 Back? - mah > .

22-3-8 Russia’s Nightmare Comes True: Germany’s Military Is Back - Forces Tech > .

2021 There is no such thing as Europe | George Friedman - geopop > .

History of the European Union - mapped - GeHi > .

History of NATO: Every Year - mapped > .

US treaties post-WW2 - Vox > .

Does the EU Make War Impossible? - Time Ghost > .

21-11-26 Poland to double the size of its military - Caspian > .

21-11-12 How Has Brexit/BrexTWIT Been Going? - EcEx > .

> EuM - European Defense >>  EU Army? 

24-7-27 Future of EU Defense: NATO or the EU? - Simple > .

24-3-6 EU Defense Union: How Far Should We Integrate? - Simple > . skip > .

24-2-28 EU Army Looks Increasingly Likely - TLDR > .

24-2-20 Why Europe is Reinstating Conscription - TLDR > .

23-12-23 Future of EU Defense: NATO or the EU? (ft. UEF) - Simple > .

23-9-5 Strategic Autonomy: Will Europe Ever Be Able to Defend Itself? | Waro > .

22-5-1 EU Army could challenge Xina and Ruscia - Simple > .

> EU >> 

>> EU >>> 

> Hungary >> Viktator Orbán w

24-1-22 How [Viktator] Orbán Took Over Hungary - Context Matters > .

> Strategy >>

>> KaiserBauch - European Demographics >>

Long Shadow & Impossible Peace → Global Conflicts - BePr >> .

EU 'R Bust - CoRo >> .

European Union - DISunion? - Alētheiai >> .

Europe - geopop >> .

George Friedman - geopop >> .

● Geopolitics: Europe, Mediterranean ..

Boris vs EU - Trade Deals, Asia-Pacific ..

BrexTWIT - Divided We Fall ..
BrexTWIT to Devolution? ..

CSDP, EDU, EU Army ..
ECE - Economic Corridors - Europe ..

EU 2023 ..

EU Demographics ..

EU Empire ..

EU Political Groupings ..

EU's Future? ..

European Geostrategic Projection ..

Exile from EU? (Hungary) ..

Franco-German Influence within EU ..

Frontex - EU's Border Force ..

G7 - Eco-Geopolitics ..
Geostrategy - Big 5 ..

Italy Crisis→Mario Draghi ..
Londependence? ..

Macron Kowtows ..
Macron's Rise, Ambitions ..
Merkel, Angela ..
New World Order & Geopolitics of Competition ..

Power of Geography ..
"Strategic Autonomy" of EU ..

Threats to Democracy - 21st century ..

Undermining Democracy ..
USA→Europe→NATO↔Russia←China ..

Visegrád Group ..
Western Balkan Accession to EU? ..
2025 Europe, EU? ..

Geostrategic Projection

European Geostrategic Projection ..

Future Conflict?

Battlefield in 2029? > .  

Future of US Military: What Will the US Military Look Like in 10 Years? - CoCa > .

Exoskeletons are the future of body armor - Task & Purpose > .

24-9-6 [Military Doctrine: US Army's Radical Upgrade for WW3] - T&P > .

24-4-16 NVGs - Performance of Army's $60,000 Combat Goggles - T&P > .

24-4-14 US Arms Production - Strategy to Restore Arsenal of Democracy? - Perun > .

24-4-5 Israel's Lavender System, AI Targeting, Battlefield Informatics - McBeth > .

1861-2023 Military Budgets - 1861-WW1-WW2-Cold War-2023 | Stats > .

24-2-1 Could National Service fix British forces recruitment crisis? | Sitrep > .

24-1-20 Can Ruscia win the military production race? - Anders > .

23-12-5 Most Dangerous [XIR] Moment: America’s Role in the Pacific | Hoover > . 

23-9-28 China's Military History; Why Xina Is Not A Military Power - ModHi > .

23-8-15 Oppenheimer's nuclear warnings more relevant than ever - Caspian > .

23-8-13 Game Theory Of Military Spending | EcEx > .

23-7-29 Why the US Military isn't Out of Ammo - T&P > .

23-7-18 Futureproofing for changing threats; Defence Command Paper - Forces > .

23-3-19 Britain's Shrinking Military - Cold War to Cash-Strapped Shadow - mfp > .

22-9-16 Five Eyes Intelligence, Innovation, Military, Multi-Domain Operations - Sh >.

22-5-7 New Cold War - More nuclear weapons in Europe? | DW Doc > .

> Armaments Industry >>  >> Armaments Industries >>>

24-4-14 US Arms Production - Strategy to Restore Arsenal of Democracy? - Perun > .

24-3-31 Global Arms Exports - Winners, losers, trends in race to rearm - Perun > .

1861-2023 Military Budgets - 1861-WW1-WW2-Cold War-2023 | Stats > .

24-1-24 Importance of 155mm shells - WSJ > . 

> Conscription, Recruitment >>

24-4-16 Is Mandatory Military Service Actually a Good Idea? - Context Matters > .

24-2-1 Could National Service fix British forces recruitment crisis? | Sitrep > .

> EuM - European Defense >>  EU Army? 

24-7-27 Future of EU Defense: NATO or the EU? - Simple > .

24-2-28 EU Army Looks Increasingly Likely - TLDR > .

24-2-20 Why Europe is Reinstating Conscription - TLDR > .

23-12-23 Future of EU Defense: NATO or the EU? (ft. UEF) - Simple > .

22-5-1 EU Army could challenge Xina and Ruscia - Simple > .

> FVEY - Five Eyes >>

> I-P Coalition of the Willing >> 

23-7-31 Ċold Ŵar 2: Biden placing spies & jets in Australia to deter Xina | Tim Cross > .

> NATO Membership >> > N Militaries >>> N Politics >> > NATO~R >>

24-4-14 US Arms Production - Strategy to Restore Arsenal of Democracy? - Perun > .

24-4-4 NATO - Largest military alliance in world | DW Doc > .

24-4-2 NATO Free Riding; [DJT's Stupidity re] Collective Defense - Spaniel > .

24-3-8 Ukraine | Time for NATO Troops? - Prof J K-L > .

24-2-16 United States | No More NATO? - Prof J K-L > .

> PLA >>  

Reservists 

24-9-30 Reservist lethality: British Army's fighting power by 2027 - Forces > .

USA > Multi-Domain Operations >> 

24-9-6 [Military Doctrine: US Army's Radical MDO Upgrade for WW3] - T&P > .

> Wartime Economies >>

24-4-14 US Arms Production - Strategy to Restore Arsenal of Democracy? - Perun > .

U.S. Alliances in the Western Pacific Archipelago | George Friedman > .

> WW3? >>

Indo-Pacific Security & Threats - Γαῖα >> .

Intelligence & Geostrategic Rivalry - Guy Lewis >> .

ISR, SEAD, GEOINT - Leo Orbis >> .

On The Radar: Defence Experts - FoTV >> .

Battlefields of Future? ..
Bionic Troops? ..
British Forces - 21st C ..

Budgets (Military) ..

Future of War ..
Future Conflict? ..
Future US Army Weaponry? ..
Intel - Past & Future ..
Kit of Future? ..

MDI - Multi-Domain Integration ..

Multi-Domain Operations .. 

WW3 Deterrence ..

Future US Army Weaponry?

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6 New Weapons MIGHT Keep the Army on Top of Russia and China - MilT > .

Future of US Military: What Will the US Military Look Like in 10 Years? - CoCa > .

Exoskeletons are the future of body armor - Task & Purpose > .

24-9-6 [Military Doctrine: US Army's Radical Upgrade for WW3] - T&P > .

24-4-14 US Arms Production - Strategy to Restore Arsenal of Democracy? - Perun > .

1861-2023 Military Budgets - 1861-WW1-WW2-Cold War-2023 | Stats > .

23-9-10 Industrial Competition & Consolidation, Military Procurement - Perun > .

23-8-20 NATO's Rearmament & Spending - NATO's R-U Response - Perun > .

23-8-13 Game Theory Of Military Spending | EcEx > .

23-7-29 Why the US Military isn't Out of Ammo - T&P > .

22-5-7 New Cold War - More nuclear weapons in Europe? | DW Doc > .

> Armaments Industry >>  >> Armaments Industries >>>

24-4-14 US Arms Production - Strategy to Restore Arsenal of Democracy? - Perun > .

24-3-31 Global Arms Exports - Winners, losers, trends in race to rearm - Perun > .

1861-2023 Military Budgets - 1861-WW1-WW2-Cold War-2023 | Stats > .

24-1-24 Importance of 155mm shells - WSJ > . 

NVGs 

24-4-16 NVGs - Performance of Army's $60,000 Combat Goggles - T&P > .

USA > Multi-Domain Operations >> 

24-9-6 [Military Doctrine: US Army's Radical MDO Upgrade for WW3] - T&P > .

> WW3? >>

Armor - Fyrd Færeld >> .

Why military aid to Ukraine has a positive effect on Western economies:

Battlefields of Future? ..
Bionic Troops? ..
British Forces - 21st C ..

Budgets (Military) ..
Future of War ..
Future Conflict? ..
Future US Army Weaponry? ..
Intel - Past & Future ..
Kit of Future? ..

MDI - Multi-Domain Integration ..

Multi-Domain Operations .. 

WW3 Deterrence ..

Future of War

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The Future of War (Multi-Domain Operations) - SmED > .

24-9-6 [Military Doctrine: US Army's Radical Upgrade for WW3] - T&P > .

24-4-14 US Arms Production - Strategy to Restore Arsenal of Democracy? - Perun > .

24-4-5 Israel's Lavender System, AI Targeting, Battlefield Informatics - McBeth > .

1861-2023 Military Budgets - 1861-WW1-WW2-Cold War-2023 | Stats > .

24-2-1 Could National Service fix British forces recruitment crisis? | Sitrep > .

24-1-20 Can Ruscia win the military production race? - Anders > .

23-12-5 Most Dangerous [XIR] Moment: America’s Role in the Pacific | Hoover > . 

23-9-28 China's Military History; Why Xina Is Not A Military Power - ModHi > .

23-9-10 Industrial Competition & Consolidation, Military Procurement - Perun > .

23-9-7 Pentagon announces Replicator cheap-AI-drone program vs Xina - Binkov > .

23-8-20 Naval Drones | New Unmanned Warfare Capabilities (subs) - Katz > .

23-8-15 Oppenheimer's nuclear warnings more relevant than ever - Caspian > .

23-8-13 Game Theory Of Military Spending | EcEx > .

23-8-10 ‘Detect, Control, Engage’: The Aegis Concept - UNI > .

23-7-29 Why the US Military isn't Out of Ammo - T&P > .

23-7-26 Ukraine tech sector goes to war | FT Doc > .

23-6-7 Ukrainian Defense Tech Boom - War Startups - U24 > .

23-7-18 Futureproofing for changing threats; Defence Command Paper - Forces > .

23-6-30 Directed Energy Weapons - Lasers vs Drones, Missiles - T&P > .

23-6-13 Drones and the Dystopian Future of War - Journeyman > .

23-6-7 Ukrainian Defense Tech Boom - War Startups - U24 > .

23-3-19 Britain's Shrinking Military - Cold War to Cash-Strapped Shadow - mfp > .

23-3-3 Generative AI, ChatGPT, CG Art: Future of Work - Patrick Boyle > . skip > .

Future of US Military: What Will the US Military Look Like in 10 Years? - CoCa > .

Exoskeletons are the future of body armor - Task & Purpose > .

22-11-11 Fortress Xina - Xi's Plans for World Domination - laowhy86 > .

22-10-7 What If Pootin Nukes Ukraine? - OBF > .

22-9-16 Five Eyes Intelligence, Innovation, Military, Multi-Domain Operations - Sh >.

22-5-7 New Cold War - More nuclear weapons in Europe? | DW Doc > .

22-4-20 Nuclear Defences - ROC Cold War 1, Ċold Ŵar 2 - mfp > .

22-3-17 Russia’s Nuclear Arsenal, World’s Largest, Comparisons | WSJ > .

22-11-8 Predicted Impact of High-Altitude Nuclear EMP on Power Grid - Practical > .

> DEWs - Directed Energy Weapons >> 

> Armaments Industry >>  >> Armaments Industries >>>

24-4-14 US Arms Production - Strategy to Restore Arsenal of Democracy? - Perun > .

24-3-31 Global Arms Exports - Winners, losers, trends in race to rearm - Perun > .

1861-2023 Military Budgets - 1861-WW1-WW2-Cold War-2023 | Stats > .

24-1-24 Importance of 155mm shells - WSJ > . 

> Conscription, Recruitment >>

24-4-16 Is Mandatory Military Service Actually a Good Idea? - Context Matters > .

24-2-1 Could National Service fix British forces recruitment crisis? | Sitrep > .

> EuM - European Defense >>  EU Army? 

24-7-27 Future of EU Defense: NATO or the EU? - Simple > .

24-2-28 EU Army Looks Increasingly Likely - TLDR > .

24-2-20 Why Europe is Reinstating Conscription - TLDR > .

23-12-23 Future of EU Defense: NATO or the EU? (ft. UEF) - Simple > .

22-5-1 EU Army could challenge Xina and Ruscia - Simple > .

> NATO Membership >> > N Militaries >>> N Politics >> > NATO~R >>

24-4-14 US Arms Production - Strategy to Restore Arsenal of Democracy? - Perun > .

24-4-4 NATO - Largest military alliance in world | DW Doc > .

24-4-2 NATO Free Riding; [DJT's Stupidity re] Collective Defense - Spaniel > .

24-3-8 Ukraine | Time for NATO Troops? - Prof J K-L > .

24-2-16 United States | No More NATO? - Prof J K-L > .

NVGs 

24-4-16 NVGs - Performance of Army's $60,000 Combat Goggles - T&P > .

> PLA >>

24-7-6 [Naval Strategy: Mahan, Corbett | PLAN Aggression] - Pacific > . 

24-5-29 Hainan Island & Xina's Massive Naval Expansion | WSJ > .

Reservists 

24-9-30 Reservist lethality: British Army's fighting power by 2027 - Forces > .

> Strategy >>

> UK Military >>

24-2-20 R-U's Vital Lessons for British Army - Forces > .

USA > Multi-Domain Operations >> 

24-9-6 [Military Doctrine: US Army's Radical MDO Upgrade for WW3] - T&P > .

> WW3? >>

Analysing Logistics - RaWa >> .  

Armor - Fyrd Færeld >> .

ars mīlitiae - anffyddiaeth >> .

Generative AI - Fallax >> .

Indo-Pacific Security & Threats - Γαῖα >> .

Intelligence & Geostrategic Rivalry - Guy Lewis >> .

ISR, SEAD, GEOINT - Leo Orbis >> .

Social Media Manipulation - SmED >> .  

Strategic Studies - Conventional - J Spencer-Churchill >> .

Strategy, Logistics, Tactics - RaWa >> .  

Tactics, Operations, Strategy - Fyrd Færeld >> .

Tensions - Oceans, Water - BPow >> .

Surveillance, Intelligence > ISR >>

R-U War - Satellite Imagery ↠

Surveillance Cameras - Satellites, Planes, Drones ↠

> Wartime Economies >>

24-4-14 US Arms Production - Strategy to Restore Arsenal of Democracy? - Perun > .

> Xina's nuclear weaponry >>

22-11-23 Xina's nuclear arsenal catching up with the US - Binkov > .

22-13-8 China's Nuclear Weapons are Garbage! - serpentza > .
22-8-24 How Dare You Question China's Military! - cfc > .

Diesel vs Nuclear .. 

Battlefields of Future? ..

Bionic Troops? ..
British Forces - 21st C ..

Budgets (Military) ..

CSG - Carrier Strike Group ..
Future of War ..
Future Conflict? ..
Future US Army Weaponry? ..

GPT - Generative Pre-Trained Transformer ↠ 
Intel - Past & Future ..
Kit of Future? ..

MDI - Multi-Domain Integration ..

Missiles - R&D ↠

Multi-Domain Operations .. 

Sidewinder - Heat-Seeking Missile ↠

WW3 Deterrence ..