Whilst in SF this week, I picked a copy of @anneapplebaum.bsky.social’s Autocracy, Inc. Seems very appropriate at the moment! Excellent read!

The Badge Problem: When the Cybersecurity Industry Forgets the Basics March 2026 | San Francisco RSA Conference 2026 is in full swing in San Francisco, and the Moscone Center is doing what it does every year: pulling in tens of thousands of security professionals, vend...

At RSAC 2026, the irony is impossible to miss: hundreds of cybersecurity professionals wandering SF with their name, title and employer on full display.
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#RSAC2026 #CyberSecurity #OpSec

From Radar to Algorithms: Vannevar Bush and the Architecture of Modern War At a moment when great power competition has returned as the organising logic of international security, when artificial intelligence is reshaping how militaries decide and act, and when the political...

War is no longer about weapons. It’s about systems.

Vannevar Bush understood that in 1949.

AI, space, and cyber have turned that insight into reality.

The question now: can democracies still manage what they built?
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greyzone.watch and greyzone.orbit: two views, one platform. Open source, no paywall, built in public. Early days, but I'd genuinely like to hear from anyone in defence analysis, space security, journalism or OSINT. info@evodefence.uk jayallen.pro/conflict-doesnt-stop-at-the-atmosphere

The Quiet War Above: Grey Zone Operations in Space Ambiguity. That's the weapon of choice in orbit right now. Not missiles, not kinetic kill vehicles, not the explosive ASAT tests that generate headlines and debris fields. The real contest for space s...

New blog post. The grey zone has arrived in orbit: satellite stalking, GPS jamming at scale, and counterspace programmes disguised as maintenance. What it means for Europe and others.

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#spacesecurity #space #globalsecurity #grayzone

Most conflict today doesn’t start with a declaration. It starts with a cable cut, a GPS spoof, an “accidental” collision, a port that quietly changes hands.
We’re building a map for that.
greyzone.watch — launching later this year

China's 1st moon astronauts could land in Rimae Bode, a 'geological museum' on the lunar near side "It offers a diverse landscape of volcanic plains and ancient highlands, allowing astronauts to sample everything from volcanic ash erupted from the deep lunar interior to debris from massive ancient impacts within a single traversable area."

China's 1st moon astronauts could land in Rimae Bode, a 'geological museum' on the lunar near side www.space.com/astronomy/mo...

The Satellite Encryption Gap: Why Everyday Citizens’ Communications Are at Risk Satellites power everything from in-flight Wi-Fi to critical infrastructure communications, yet many systems still transmit data without encryption. This gap leaves sensitive civilian and government c...

Satellites are essential components of modern life on earth. Yet the majority of this digital infrastructure remains vulnerable, unencrypted, and susceptible to cyber attacks.

Read more from CSIS's Strategic Technologies Program: https://bit.ly/3NdwQir

America’s New Cyber Strategy: Offence, Deregulation, and the AI Stack Offence. That’s the word that defines what the White House released on 6 March 2026. Not resilience, not defence, not cooperation. Offence. It was also released quietly, with remarkably little fanfar...

America’s new cyber strategy is built around offence, not restraint. But the deeper shift is PQC and AI: Washington is treating quantum transition and the AI stack as strategic terrain. That will have wider implications. #CyberSecurity #NationalSecurity #CyberStrategy
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From Smartphones to Strategic Infrastructure: What MWC Reveals About the New Connectivity Battlespace Mobile World Congress 2026 kicked off this week, and walking the halls on the first day, it was clear that a pattern had quickly emerged. Satellite connectivity is no longer being marketed as a niche ...

Space is no longer an add-on for mobile networks. Day 1 at #MWC shows it becoming structural: LEO backhaul, direct-to-device trials, and Europe pushing satellite–mobile convergence. That shift is commercial and strategic.
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#Space #Telecom #LEO #MWC26 #Connectivity #CNI

The Decapitation of the Islamic Republic: What Comes After Khamenei Thirty-seven years. That’s how long Ali Khamenei held the Islamic Republic together, through sanctions, proxy wars, nuclear brinkmanship, and wave after wave of popular uprising. He survived an assas...

Khamenei is dead. The Islamic Republic may be finished. The security challenges it represented may not be. New post on what comes next -- and the question nobody is asking.
#Iran #GlobalSecurity #MiddleEast
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SwarmWatch is Live: Tracking the Explosion in Low Earth Orbit After months of research and development, I'm excited to announce that SwarmWatch is now live. This interactive tool tracks the explosive growth of mega-constellations and provides real-time visibilit...

SwarmWatch is live. I built it to make mega-constellation growth in LEO easier to see, not just quote, and wrote up the why (and what’s next) here: jayallen.pro/swarmwatch-i...

#space #satellites #LEO #Starlink #AmazonLeo #OneWeb

🚀 SwarmWatch is now live at swarmwatch.dev! Track the explosive growth of mega-constellations and monitor the increasingly crowded orbital environment. Your window into the new space era.
#SpaceSecurity #Satellites #LEO #SpacePolicy #NewSpace #MegaConstellations

Building something I've wanted to exist for a while. Swarmwatch - a real-time tracker for every satellite megaconstellation on the planet. Starlink, Kuiper, Terawave, Guowang, Qianfan, and more. 23 programs across 8 countries. Self-hosted, open source, live data. Coming soon. #space #security

The Next Phase in Space Connectivity: Blue Origin’s TeraWave Meets Starlink’s Evolving Ambition Blue Origin just filed plans for a 5,408-satellite constellation. Not a consumer broadband play. Not a Starlink clone. Something different: an enterprise-grade, multi-orbit data backbone designed to m...

37,000+ satellites on the books. Can LEO orbit can handle it?

New post on Blue Origin's TeraWave and what the mid-2030s congestion problem looks like.

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#SpaceSecurity #LEO #TeraWave

China sends fourth ‘Shenlong’ reusable spacecraft mission into orbit Programme for ‘peaceful use of outer space’ launched in 2020 is seen as potential rival to US Space Force’s X-37B.

China has launched its fourth Shenlong reusable spaceplane mission, with few details released beyond the post article. The cadence alone makes this worth watching. Quiet programmes rarely stay quiet for long.
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#Space #China #ReusableSpacecraft #SpaceSecurity #DualUse #LEO

Ensuring American Space Superiority Superiority. That's the word that jumped out when Trump signed his latest space executive order on 18th December 2025. Not leadership. Not cooperation. Superiority. Language matters in policy documen...

New post - Trump's Dec 2025 space EO redefines cislunar space as strategic terrain. For allies: integration on US terms or client status. STM marketisation, missile defence ties, nuclear detection mandates.

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#SpacePolicy #SpaceSecurity #Cislunar #Geopolitics

The Rise of the Agents: When Software Starts Acting Software used to wait for you. You opened an application, clicked buttons, filled in forms, and told it exactly what to do. That era is ending. A new class of AI systems doesn't wait for instructions ...

Software used to wait for you. Now it acts. New blog post on what agentic AI actually is, what it looks like in production, and why the security model matters more than the hype. No buzzwords, just the practical picture.
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Swarm - Nebraska Press

Really excited to share that my book Swarm is now up for pre-order. It’s about the rise of megaconstellations and what that means for power, conflict, and resilience in Low Earth Orbit. @univnebpress.bsky.social Potomac Books www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/potomac-book...

#LEO #Megaconstellations #Space

Challenger, 40 Years On: Have We Learned Anything? On the morning of 28 January 1986, ice hung from the launch tower at Cape Canaveral. Engineers knew the temperature was unusually low, colder than anything the Space Shuttle programme had experienced ...

Forty years on from Challenger, the technical causes are well known. The harder question is what it reveals about risk, culture, and decision-making, and what still echoes today.

My latest post: jayallen.pro/challenger-4...

#space #Challenger #nasa

Sir, thank you to you, and all who flew for the courage to push beyond Earth and expand humanity’s horizons. From here in the UK, we remember those who paid the ultimate price and recognise how their legacy continues to protect those who follow. They will never be forgotten. Per ardua ad astra.

So it (finally) begins. Parts of the IRIS2 network are live. www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...

#space #EU #Defence

Well, ETIAS is delayed to Oct this year, and as a Brit who travels to the EU a lot, the E/E system with the gates and machines (the US-style fingerprints/passport scanning) just isn't there yet. Machines are waiting but never in use! I filled a 10yr passport in 2yrs with mainly EU stamps!

The Arctic as Flashpoint: What Trump's Greenland Push Reveals About Northern Security When the President of the United States says America “needs” Greenland for defence, he’s not making a real estate pitch. He’s signalling that Arctic access is now a strategic entitlement question, not...

Greenland isn’t theatre. It’s signalling: Arctic access and ground stations are bargaining chips. For UK, High North is the front door; dependency is the risk. jayallen.pro/the-arctic-a... #Greenland #NATO #SpaceSecurity

Funny how history just has this habit of repeating itself. It’s almost like no one (in power) seems to remember (or cares). 🤷🏻‍♂️

Financial Warfare in the Americas: What Europe Should Learn from Venezuela The United States just abducted a head of state, and the weapon that made it possible wasn’t a carrier group, it was a tariff schedule. Over the weekend, the Trump administration launched a military ...

Financial Warfare in the Americas: What Europe Should Learn from Venezuela
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Just to give context - can’t see past the jet bridge!

Flying out of #DEL today and visibility looks to down to maybe 200mtrs (haven’t seen the METAR yet). 408 on the AQI 😬

The CRASH Clock is ticking as satellite congestion in low Earth orbit worsens It's getting crowded up there Earth's orbit is starting to look like an LA freeway, with more and more satellites being launched each year. If you're worried about collisions and space debris making the area unusable – and you should be – scientists have proposed a new metric to contribute to your anxiety: the CRASH Clock.…

The CRASH Clock is ticking as satellite congestion in low Earth orbit worsens

Implications of the 2025 U.S. National Security Strategy for the UK and Europe Europe After America’s 2025 National Security Strategy A British view from the alliance front line When Washington drops a new National Security Strategy, most Europeans skim the headlines, reassure...

Europe faces a hard reset. The 2025 US NSS shifts more responsibility onto allies. For the UK and EU, the question is whether to step up with unity and real capability, or risk being sidelined. 🇪🇺🇬🇧 #NATO #EuropeSecurity #UK #Defence2025 #NSS

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