Airborne ISR has long been treated as a source of persistent, reliable battlefield awareness. But the conditions that enable this capability also create structural vulnerabilities. As sensor networks improve and contested environments intensify, ISR effectiveness becomes conditional rather than assured. Source link www.nakedcapitalism.comRead More

The collapse of nuclear arms control is not returning the world to Cold War stability, but pushing it into a more complex and less governable nuclear order. As treaties lapse, latent up-arming capacity, compressed decision times, and multi-actor deterrence dynamics combine to raise systemic risk. This article examines how the erosion of formal limits—rather than malign intent—has made nuclear escalation…Read More