Defence and Freedom
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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2025/12/31

Happy New Year

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. Let's hope 2026 gets better.  We've had enough really bad years in the West for a lifetime since 2001. S O defence_and_freed...
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2025/12/20

Naval blockades

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. Naval blockades have a terrible image. The ongoing illegal Israeli naval blockade of Gaza is an important example, but there were much mor...
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2025/12/15

Civilian Germany doesn't understand the scale of wastefulness in the military

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. This guy wasted about 2.3 billion Euros by grossly mishandling protective mask purchases during the Corona pandemic. His level of competen...
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2025/11/27

Constellation class program aborted

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. The U.S. government (mostly) cancelled its navy frigate program that was meant to slightly adapt a foreign frigate design for the USN so ...
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2025/11/03

Army vehicle size limits

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. It's often said that the CVR/T tank family of the British was required to be narrow enough to fit between the rubber trees on Malaysia...
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2025/10/22

How many generals do we need? Or: The case against generals

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. This blog post will be close to maximum disrespectful towards general ranks. The two reasons for my disrespect are the reasoning I will la...
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2025/10/21

Drone cloud support to battlefield drones

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. Here's one thing that drones can do that manned aviation did not do in either world war nor in the Vietnam War: A huge q...
2025/10/16

Artillery fires types

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. The literature (including field manuals) usually discerns three kinds of artillery fires for lethal munitions*: Destructive fires, neutral...
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