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Reopening Europe’s Civil Bridges after Disruption
Temporary structures, installation capacity and authorisation to return to service
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Strategic Priorities & International Security
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The Search for a Decisive Battle
Why the Iran campaign cannot produce the outcome it keeps announcing
Jul 25
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Strategic Priorities in the Chinese Military Classics
In the third chapter of The Art of Warfare, Sun Tzu establishes an order of preference among the courses of action available in war.
Jul 25
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What Remains of the West’s Grand Strategy
The three lines of the post-1989 era and their exhaustion
Jul 25
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Europe’s Defence Backbone
What a Europe-led NATO will require from industry, service providers and procurement institutions
Jul 16
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Operational & Tactical Priorities
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Restoring Europe’s Airfield Availability
Repair materials, engineering evidence and the conditions for reusing damaged airfield surfaces
Sep 25
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Feeding Europe’s Expanded Forces
How qualification, usable stock, conditioning and separate suppliers decide field-feeding endurance in France and Norway
Sep 25
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The Workforce Behind the Unmanned Minehunter
Force generation, training and industrial support in the Belgian, Dutch and French mine-warfare transition
Sep 23
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Where Europe’s Upper-Air Sounding Chain Can Be Separated — and Where It Cannot
Launch consumables, airborne sondes, receivers and output messages as four distinct continuity problems in European military meteorology
Sep 21
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Defence Investment Regulation
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Military AI After the Update
Legal review, continuous assurance and evidence rights in France and the Netherlands, with JSP 936 as technical reference
Sep 28
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Military Maintenance Approvals Do Not Travel on Their Own
Recognition between authorities cuts duplication; a supplier's approval counts abroad only within a defined scope or through the customer state's own…
Sep 25
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Germany’s Defence Cost Rules and Investment Recovery
How Bundeswehr self-cost pricing rules shape investment recovery, supplier margins and capacity expansion
Sep 25
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Manufacturer Obligations in Europe’s Defence Factory Upgrades
Substantial Modification, In-House Machinery and Production-Line Integration under EU Law
Sep 24
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European Strategic Autonomy
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Who May Maintain Europe’s Defence Software
Licences, maintenance rights and exit clauses across PX4, Auterion, EU law and French ICT contracts
Sep 26
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Controlling the Chart: France’s Hydrographic Lesson for Europe
Why authority over official data matters more than the nationality of drones and software
Sep 25
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Europe’s Qualified Oscillator Base and the Parts-List Reform
One ESCC qualification, two lists, and what changes when the rules are rewritten
Sep 22
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Between the Data and the Aircraft
Who controls the model lifecycle when a sonar classifier can be retrained in five minutes
Sep 19
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Public Expenditure & Procurement
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State-Funded Tooling After the Contract: France and Britain
What French and British contracts say about who controls State-funded production tooling, and what the Wildcat case shows
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NATO Infrastructure Finance: Lessons from Lielvārde and Powidz
How common-funding eligibility, national budgets and bilateral agreements divide the cost of usable military infrastructure in Europe
Sep 25
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The Pre-Committed Budget Behind France’s Equipment Spending
Payment cohorts, outstanding commitments and the limits of Programme 146’s budget expansion
Sep 24
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The Sonde and the Receiver
How Europe buys its upper-air observations, and why only one layer of that purchase behaves like a market
Sep 23
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Capital Markets & Investment Flows
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University Licence Terms and Defence Spin-out Finance
Evidence from ETH Zurich and DTU on how equity, royalties and IP ownership shape funding and control
Sep 24
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How acquisition finance preserves cash, creates refinancing claims and transfers repayment into equity
A European defence company that announces a capital raise has told its investors almost nothing about what it can now build.
Sep 20
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Household Capital and the Public Anchor in Bpifrance Défense
Warehousing units, conditional liquidity and the limits of industrial additionality
Sep 18
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Private Capital, Public Ownership and Risk Across Three Military-Campus PPPs
Permanent forward defence is a fiscal commitment before it is a military one.
Sep 17
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Company Profiles Database
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CEDRAT Technologies: Precision Mechatronics from Meylan
What the public record shows about a French actuator specialist’s design, test and programme roles
Sep 24
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ADR and the Conversion Problem in European Precision Bearings
What a French bearing specialist’s filed accounts show about capacity, and what the public record cannot show about dependency
Sep 21
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Forgital and the Qualification Constraint in European Aero-Engine Forging
Customer approvals, programme access and ownership after the 2025 acquisition
Sep 20
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Polyamp and the Continuity of European Naval Signature Management
Software Rights, Corporate Control and Through-Life Support
Sep 18
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EDTs & Dual-Use Technologies
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Multicore Certification Evidence and the Cost of Change
How AMC 20-193, ESA’s RTEMS data pack and De-RISC distribute reusable assurance evidence between suppliers and integrators
Oct 3
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Adaptive Soldier Camouflage in Europe: The Distance Between a Tested Prototype and a Qualified Product
What ACAMSII and ACROSS show about materials, manufacturing and the evidence of validation
Sep 26
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The Qualified Configuration
Why Europe’s infrared and radio-frequency packaging cannot be second-sourced by buying a furnace
Sep 21
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What a Second Source Has to Reproduce
Why European capability in hermetic ceramic–metal packaging is not yet substitutable capacity
Sep 21
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Critical Infrastructure & Corporate Readiness
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Reopening Europe’s Civil Bridges after Disruption
Temporary structures, installation capacity and authorisation to return to service
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Restoring Europe’s Railways after Prolonged Disruption
Track materials, specialist plant and acceptance as conditions for repeatable rail recovery
2 hrs ago
Signalling Compatibility Before Military Rail Throughput
On-board compatibility, vehicle authorisation and the limits of rail investment confined to infrastructure
Oct 3
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Rail-Terminal Capacity Beyond the Main Line: Lessons from Verona, Hannover-Lehrte and Oritkari
What must be documented before a rail connection counts as usable logistics capacity
Oct 3
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Special Reports - Premium
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From Torpedo Boats to Layered European Firepower
Why cheap autonomous systems are forcing Europe to buy more layers of firepower, not fewer
Sep 2
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EDF 2026 Non-Thematic Calls: Application Manual
Eligibility, consortium, activity mapping, budget and submission for the SMERO, SME and disruptive lump-sum routes
Aug 24
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Rearmament’s Uneven Financing Burden Across Europe’s Defence Tiers
Why procurement cash timing, not the Bund curve, determines where European defence capacity can expand
Aug 22
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Strategic Technology as a National Balance Sheet
Seven Korean missions test which technologies redistribute industrial and geopolitical power
Aug 13
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