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The Yalta conference after WWII - Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin
Germany - east and west after WWII
Tech + Government: Military, Funding and Silicon Valley
a collection of articles and videos looking at the relationship between Poland and the EU
A collection of articles questioning whether or not - the lessons of WWI been forgotten? History of Wars (WWI, WWII)
a collection of articles about Germany - Military, Geopolitics and History
Nuclear Weapons and Arms Control
a collection of articles, papers and videos looking at NATO and European Defence
articles and videos looking at drone swarms
A collection of articles and videos looking at arms control
articles and videos looking at drones, ai and military applications
a collection of articles and videos looking at the relationship between Poland and the EU
a collection of articles, papers and videos looking at debates surrounding the future of European defense policy

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Article

Portugal's Tekever raises $74M for dual-use drone platform deployed to Ukraine | TechCrunch

Dual-use drone startup Tekever has raised €70 million ($74 million) to develop its product and expand into new markets, specifically the U.S.. The ... (2024)


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Why the Pentagon wants to build thousands of easily replaceable, AI-enabled drones

Ukraine’s drone innovations have changed how the US is planning for a war with China. (2024)


Article

NATO and European defense: Europe is caught between Putin and Trump

Russian aggression and American wavering reveal how ill-equipped Europe is | Leaders (2024)


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The global arms bazaar. Meet the world’s new arms dealers 

Geopolitics in the war in Ukraine are changing where the world buys its arms. Where to buy drones, fighters and tanks on the cheap | International (2023)


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The Iron Man Model: How Startups and the Military Can Work Together | a16z Future

In order to create Iron Man-like innovations, defense tech startups must optimally engage the Pentagon instead of treating it as just another custo... (2022)


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They’re putting guns on robot dogs now - The Verge

It was only a matter of time before they started equipping robot dogs with guns. A quadrupedal machine built by Ghost Robotics has been outfitted w... (2021)


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The Pentagon's probably drooling over the Age of Empires 4 launch

It's all fun and games until we find out that all the fun and games could one day be used to train the machines to destroy us. Microsoft, a comp... (2021)


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Killer Drone Autonomously 'Hunted Down' a Human Target, UN Experts Say

A “lethal” weaponized drone “hunted down” and “remotely engaged” human targets without its handlers’ say-so during a conflict in Libya last year, a... (2021)


Article

Microsoft gets contract worth up to $22 billion to outfit US Army with 120,000 AR headsets – TechCrunch

The killer use case for AR/VR might just be warfare. Today, Microsoft announced that it has received a contract to outfit the United States Army wi... (2021)


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US drone firm Skydio valued at $1 billion as government freezes out Chinese competition - The Verge

California-based Skydio has become the first US drone maker to be valued at more than $1 billion after a Series D funding round. The news comes as ... (2021)


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ExOne gets $1.6M DoD contract to build a 3D printing ‘factory’ in shipping container – TechCrunch

ExOne this week announced that the U.S. Department of Defense has granted it $1.6 million. It’s one of the Pennsylvania-based metal 3D printing com... (2021)


Article

Charlemagne - Scrapping vetoes won’t help European foreign policy

The EU should heed the lesson of “The Princess and the Pea” (2020)


Article

Elad Blog: Silicon Valley & Defense Tech

Over the last few years there has been a lot of press coverage of Google canceling project Maven , a defense contract. This has led to claim... (2020)


Article

The reluctant hegemon - Germany is being forced to take a leadership role it never wanted

But thirty years after reunification, it is finding its stride (2020)


Article

Armistice Day: November 11, 1918 to November 11, 2018 - Scientific American Blog Network

"The war to end all wars"; that had to be renamed "The First World War"; ended 100 years ago (2018)


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Three Reasons to Fear Another ‘Great War’ Today -- Hal Brands, Bloomberg (2018)

Still think globalization will bring peace? They thought that in 1914, too. (2018)


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Military gets a boost in revised German spending plan | Reuters (2018)

The German military has received a hefty boost in a revised budget plan from 2020 after Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen refused to sign off t... (2018)


Article

The Pentagon’s Plans to Program Soldiers’ Brains - The Atlantic

The military wants future super-soldiers to control robots with their thoughts. (2018)


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The Pentagon plans to spend $2 billion to put more artificial intelligence into its weaponry - The Verge

The Defense Department’s cutting-edge research arm has promised to make the military’s largest investment to date in artificial intelligence system... (2018)


Article

“Everybody Immediately Knew That It Was for Amazon”: Has Bezos Become More Powerful in D.C. Than Trump?

The deal for an obscure $10 billion Pentagon contract suggests the extent to which Bezos is gobbling up the Swamp—without the guy in the White Hous... (2018)


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The fallout continues: Nagasaki 2018-08-10 | The Economist

António Guterres, the UN secretary-general, today met survivors of the American A-bomb that (2018)


Article

Trump Goes After Montenegro, a ‘Tiny Country’ With ‘Aggressive People’ - The Atlantic

Fresh off of meeting with Vladimir Putin, the U.S. president again questions NATO commitments. (2018)


Article

All the Nuclear Missile Submarines in the World in One Chart

Only seven countries in the entire world deploy nuclear weapons at sea, an exclusive and deadly club. (2018)


Article

D-Day: How a British Oceanographer's Invention Decided Normandy's Fate

Deciding when to storm the beach at Normandy was no easy feat, as the slightest variation in the tides could spell disaster for incoming boats. Wit... (2018)


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How Geology Influenced The Landing In Normandy On D-Day | Forbes

Geology profoundly influenced the strategy adopted by the Allied forces to invade Nazi-occupied Europe on D-Day. (2018)


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U.S. Army, Uber sign research agreement | Article

Uber and U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command, Army Research Laboratory, announced today a Cooperative Research and Development ... (2018)


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Atomic Architecture: The Secret Cities of World War Two - CityLab

The Manhattan Project, the program that developed the first nuclear weapons during World War II, worked out of three purpose-built cities in Tennes... (2018)


Article

Get Ready for the Silicon Military - Harvard

As the global defense industry embraces digital technology, it is creating a new type of warfare with different winners and losers... (2018)


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Mutually assured detection - Military applications - The Economist

Better anti-submarine warfare will mean fewer places for subs to hide "ON JULY 20th 1960, a missile popped out of an apparently empty Atlantic o... (2018)


Article

The Uncertain Future of the INF Treaty | Council on Foreign Relations

Backgrounder examines the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, which may now be imperiled by mutual suspicion between Russia and the Uni... (2018)


Video

Anduril - Can Palmer Luckey Reinvent the U.S. Defense Industry? | WSJ

Military tech startup Anduril Industries is shaking up the U.S. defense industry as it is one of the few privately held technology companies findin... (2023)


Video

Why Iran's Geography Sucks

Why Iran's Geography Sucks (2022)


Video

Why Azerbaijan Will Keep Attacking Armenia

Why Azerbaijan Will Keep Attacking Armenia (2022)


Video

How Switzerland Became Unconquerable

How Switzerland Became Unconquerable (2022)


Video

Fareed Zakaria: History is not a Hollywood movie - CNN Video

CNN's Fareed Zakaria questions whether progress is inexorable, drawing comparisons between today and the 1920s. (2018)


Video

Turning Point of history: D day Juno Beach

Examines Canada's role on June 6th, 1944 and the advance through Normandy, France. (2018)


Video

D-Day - A Critical Moment In History

The Normandy invasion was the largest seaborne assault in world history and was a pivotal moment in World War 2. This is a brief look back at that ... (2018)


Podcast

The Re-Militarization of Germany - The Daily | Podcast on Spotify

Listen to this episode from The Daily on Spotify. In the decades after World War II and the atrocities of the Holocaust, Germany deliberately under... (2023)


Podcast

How is warfare changing? - The Economist

ANNE MCELVOY, our senior editor, spoke to members of the British and German armies to discuss how they are preparing for urban warfare. She visited... (2018)


Book

Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin - Kindle

Description: From the bestselling author of On Tyranny, the definitive history of Hitler's and Stalin's wars against the civilians of Europe in Wor... (2018)


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