Daily Archives: Jul 3, 2026

"We will lose big if the alliance is caught unprepared," said Christian Olivieri, founder of Atreyd, a French defense start-up behind Ukraine's newest aerial shield. That stark assessment underlines the urgency of a battlefield innovation about to face its first real test. In the high intensity, drone-saturated skies over Ukraine,...

What happens when the security guarantor of an entire continent starts questioning the deal? That is the question now before European leaders as President Donald Trump's second term forces a reckoning over military dependence on the United States. His transactional approach to alliances, readiness to negotiate over Europe's head,...

“The highest level of the aircraft carrier today is nuclear-powered and equipped with electromagnetic catapults,” said Chinese military expert Zhang Xuefeng. That benchmark has long been held by the United States, but China’s newest carrier, the CNS Fujian, has now entered the same technological category at least in launch...