Defence and Freedom
2026/06/08

SatNav warfare

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. So a satellite was found to be jamming GPS even though that wasn't its apparent purpose .  This is the most powerful counter to satel...
2026/06/04

A 'carry at all times' helmet for support troops in army divisions

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. I hope you muted the video in time. Anyway, I showed this thing from 2022 because I remember having asked ballistic helmet manufac...
2026/05/14

Navies and trade

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. Long-time readers may remember I'm a bit of a sceptic regarding naval power. In part because ship-killing can be done by land-based ai...
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2026/05/08

Suddenly so much love for cruise missiles

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. Suddenly lots of people talk about Europe needing cruise missiles to deter Russians. Let's look at what this implies. It certainly imp...
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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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