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#763: The Known Unknown: Sea Denial and the Psychology of Submarine Warfare
Dive into the silent world of undersea warfare to discover how submarines navigate without GPS and stay invisible to modern tracking.
#718: The Power of Strategic Silence
Explore the history of the Jericho program and the strategic "polite fiction" of nuclear ambiguity in an increasingly tense Middle East.
#705: When a Bullet Hits a Bullet at Mach 10
Explore the physics of "hit-to-kill" technology and how lasers are reshaping the future of multi-layered missile defense systems.
#672: Why LLMs Can't Fly Drones
Herman and Corn break down Anthropic’s move into defense and the technical reality of how AI actually pilots drones on the modern battlefield.
#645: The Return of the Big War: Mapping Global Conflict in 2026
Is the world truly more violent, or are we just more informed? Explore the data behind the global surge in conflict and the return of the "Big War."
#631: The Oron: Israel’s Flying Supercomputer in a Luxury Jet
Discover how a luxury business jet became the IDF's most powerful intelligence asset, the Oron, a high-altitude flying supercomputer.
#624: Ontologies, AI, and the Human Under the Loop
Explore how Palantir and Anthropic’s Claude are redefining modern warfare, from the raid in Venezuela to the future of the digital battlefield.
#622: The Invisible Battlefield: Why Stealth Still Needs Chaos
Discover the Boeing EA-18G Growler, the aircraft that dominates the electromagnetic spectrum through chaos, deception, and raw power.
#134: The 90-Second Warning: Inside a Missile Alert
Discover the engineering behind missile detection, from space-based infrared sensors to the real-time alerts on your smartphone.
#74: Why Missiles Don't Trust GPS
Explore the hidden world of modern missile navigation, from GPS spoofing to the hyper-precise Inertial Navigation Systems that guide weapons at hyp...