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From Drone Armies to Systems States: Research Update — June 2026

Ukrainian practitioner evidence from an April 2026 defence-industry panel reveals that adaptation speed is a vector across five sequential clocks, not a single national rate — and identifies institutional absorption capacity as a missing dimension of adaptive system quality.

June 21, 2026

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Starlink and Starshield: Research Update — June 2026

New evidence from Pentagon contracts, U.S. Space Systems Command clarifications, and Ukraine's 2026 Starlink whitelist refines the original thesis: institutional separation does not require physical separation.

June 21, 2026

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Why Civil Control of Dual-Use Connectivity Will Fail in UK Waters

This paper examines why civil registration and whitelisting regimes cannot contain adversarial use of commercial LEO connectivity once that connectivity becomes indispensable for unmanned maritime operations — and why the UK is approaching the same threshold seen in Ukraine.

January 1, 2026