Defence and Freedom
2026/04/24

A general purpose frigate for small powers

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. I wrote a blog post series about navy escorts in 2018 that IMO stood up to the test of time . Its conclusion/recommendation in the end is...
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2026/04/16

Troublemaker countries categorized

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. The terms "rogue state" and a while ago "axis of evil" were used to categorize countries with some kind of supposedly...
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2026/04/03

On the issue of IFV and APC costs

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. " Kraftfahrzeuge und Panzer " 1st Ed. by Werner Oswald (1970) has a nice list of the approximate prices of AFVs as of end-60...
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2026/03/28

Hegseth and tunnel vision

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. I noticed some not fully idiotic people on Twitter are praising Hegseth.  That seems ludicrous considering the overt stupidity and incompe...
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2026/03/15

About optimizing and scale

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. There's a curious thing happening when I do thought experiments, trying to optimise things to the best of my knowledge, processing abi...
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2026/03/13

A look back: My theses as of 2014

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. I had a summary of Defence & Freedom (my) theses back in (and up to) 2014: /2014/05/blog-defence-and-freedom-theses.html   Let's u...
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2026/02/20

American-Clausewitzian thought falls short on the strategy level

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  So, here's the issue that makes American-Clausewitzian thought rather useless for strategy: They write about winning a war 1vs1 or coa...
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2026/02/06

Simple WW2 infantry regiment arms

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. I keep looking at historical army equipment and it's fascinating how simple the equipment even of an entire infantry regiment can be....
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2026/01/29

The impending crash

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. I leaned a bit out of the window and anticipated doom on Twitter: https://x.com/DefenceFreedom/status/2016438597230961078 The U.S.' pu...
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2026/01/08

NATO doesn't look so eternal any more.

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. I'd like to direct your attention to a 2014 blog post due to recent events: "How NATO changed the perception of what an alliance ...
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