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Editor’s Note: This essay is from the Security & Defence PLuS Emerging Voices Series, which highlights the next generation of scholars and practitioners shaping thinking on strategy, security, and defense. The series brings together perspectives from PhD candidates and early career researchers, grounded in the complex geopolitical realities of the 21st century. The collection explores a “Latticework of Resilience” that connects often-overlooked sectors, such as subnational diplomacy and critical infrastructure inherent in agriculture security, to the core of national security. Taken together, the essays emphasize the importance of adaptive, multidisciplinary approaches to building resilience in an increasingly complex global environment. The…

The TWZ Newsletter Weekly insights and analysis on the latest developments in military technology, strategy, and foreign policy. Testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Thursday, the admiral in charge of U.S. military operations in the Middle East pushed back against claims that Iran still possesses a large number of missiles and launchers. He spoke as the White House said U.S. President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping discussed the ongoing Iranian closure of the Strait of Hormuz and hours after Iran seized another ship.  Iran can “no longer threaten regional partners, or the United States, in…

Adam Leszkiewicz and Micael Johansson signing the agreement. Credit: Saab. Sweden’s Saab and Polish defence prime PGZ Group have established a new strategic collaboration agreement within the naval sector. Both parties have agreed to examine cooperation in areas such as service and lifecycle support for both surface vessels and submarines. Discover B2B Marketing That Performs Combine business intelligence and editorial excellence to reach engaged professionals across 36 leading media platforms. Find out more PGZ Group’s naval entities will be integrated with Saab’s supply network, and developing export options for surface and underwater platforms, including rescue vessels. The companies also plan…

Welcome back to Five Questions for a General, a production of the Modern War Institute at West Point. This series features specially selected cadet hosts who are given an incredible professional development opportunity—to sit down with senior military officers and ask carefully crafted questions about everything from leadership to their unique experiences while serving, to their expectations about the future of war. General Xavier Brunson is the commander of United Nations Command, ROK/US Combined Forces Command, and United States Forces Korea. In this episode, he joins Cadet Olivia Hanson for a wide-ranging discussion about leadership, deterrence, alliances, and the strategic future of…

Francis Ngannou looks to show out at the MVP MMA 1 card on May 16th, and the lineal MMA heavyweight champion took time to briefly touch on his UFC departure. Ngannou clashes with Philipe Lins this Saturday, with a global broadcast set for Netflix in the industry leader’s inaugural foray into the MMA live event universe. During a pre-fight interview with Daniel Cormier on DC’s personal YouTube channel, with a specific clip shared to the platform formerly known as Twitter by X user @FREAKMMA1, ‘The Predator’ covered several subjects ahead of returning from his nearly two-year absence from mixed martial…

Golden Dome’s defenders are downplaying a new $1.2 trillion estimate for Donald Trump’s ambitious missile-defense plan, though they declined to detail just how they disagree with the Congressional Budget Office’s report.Space Force Gen. Michael Guetlein, the program’s leader, said the CBO report released Wednesday relied on outdated cost estimates for existing technology and didn’t account for the missile shield’s undisclosed mix of technology and weapons.“They did not estimate the architecture that we’re building. Why is that? Well, first of all, they didn’t come and ask us what we’re building,” Guetlein said Thursday morning during the Inside the Dome event in…

Carlos, an economics professor (!), asks: Hi Murray, I am a long-time AWM subscriber, born in Hispania, working in Britannia, and mostly living in Raetia. Love the podcast. My question is this. With the Constitutio Antoniniana, all young men within the Imperium became citizens and could enlist in the legions instead of the auxilia. Hence, the auxilia presumably attracted less recruits. With Diocletian’s reforms, whatever remained of the auxilia was absorbed into a fully new structure with limitanei, comitatenses, and auxilia palatina, the latter being elite. This suggests that the distinction between legions and auxilia might had become fuzzy at that point,…

Most Valuable Promotions (MVP) held its official pre-fight press conference on Thurs. (watch here) for the upcoming debut MMA event on Netflix, MVP MMA 1, which is locked and loaded for this weekend (Sat., May 16, 2026) inside Intuit Arena in Inglewood, California.The main and co-main event fighters were on hand and came face-to-face following the press conference festivities, setting the tone for what promises to be a wild night of fights.That includes the night’s headliners as former UFC Bantamweight queen Ronda Rousey returns to action after nearly a decade away from the cage opposite women’s MMA pioneer Gina Carano,…

Credit: Defense FeedsThe US Navy Expands MUSV Drone Fleet to Counter China strategy is quickly becoming one of Washington’s most ambitious maritime modernization efforts in decades. Facing growing pressure from China’s rapidly expanding naval forces, the U.S. Navy now plans to acquire 47 Medium Unmanned Surface Vessels, or MUSVs, through 2031 as part of a broader push to reshape naval warfare in the Indo-Pacific.The initiative appeared in the Navy’s latest long-term shipbuilding plan and reflects a major shift toward autonomous systems capable of operating in high-risk environments without onboard crews. Military planners increasingly see unmanned vessels as a critical tool…

Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the People’s Republic of China Updated: May 14, 2026 15:00 On the morning of May 14, President Xi Jinping held talks with U.S. President Donald J. Trump, who is on a state visit to China, at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. President Xi noted that transformation not seen in a century is accelerating across the globe, and the international situation is fluid and turbulent. Can China and the United States overcome the Thucydides Trap and create a new paradigm of major-country relations? Can we meet global challenges together and provide greater stability for the…