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OPINION: 500,000 Pixel Warriors — Seoul Answers Kim Jong-un with a Drone Army
On Friday, June 26, 2026, the South Korean Ministry of Defense announced a plan that would read like a video game premise if its…

TESTIMONY: Zelensky vs. Lukashenko — One Week to Silence the Death Relays
On June 19, 2026, Volodymyr Zelensky stood before journalists and spoke simple, direct words that rang like an indirect declaration of war against Alexander…

DECODING: Kim Jong Un's Choe Hyon destroyer and the doctrine of the bristling sea
On June 23, 2026, in the port of Nampo, west of Pyongyang, Kim Jong Un attended in person the official commissioning ceremony of the…

NARRATIVE: The Kyiv Lavra in Flames — Moscow Destroys a Thousand Years of Ukrainian Soul
It is three o'clock in the morning in Kyiv, June 15, 2026. Air raid sirens have been wailing for half an hour. In underground…

ANALYSIS: Kim Jong Un Tests Missiles on the 76th Anniversary of the Korean War
June 25, 2026. Seventy-six years to the day since North Korean forces crossed the 38th Parallel to ignite a war that would kill 5…

OPEN LETTER: To the Generals Who Still Thought Drone Swarms Were Science Fiction
To you, senior officers, strategic planners, defense procurement bureaucrats who spent years reading reports on autonomous drone swarms and telling yourselves it is ten…

EDITORIAL: Iran at Geneva in the Morning, Iranian Drones in Lebanon at Night — Duplicity as Doctrine
On June 17, 2026, in Versailles, President Trump and Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei signed a 14-point memorandum of understanding. The world applauded. Europeans…

REPORT: European Rearmament in 2026 — the Speeches Are Grand, the Factories Can't Keep Up
Europe is rearming. That sentence, repeated like a mantra since 2022, is both true and misleading. True because European defense budgets have indeed increased…

PROFILE: Autonomous Drones and the Legal Void — Who Is Responsible When a Machine Kills?
The global defense drone market will reach, according to analyses by BriefGlance and several specialized firms, over $55 billion by 2032 — some projections…