Editorial
Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun. Boudica and Cromwell carriers. Fighters which dive into the ocean. Drone swarms which attach to enemy hulls like parasites. Underground farms to survive nuclear winter. And EREBUS — a weapon too terrible to name which brings eternal darkness.
Strategy
Flash Joule heating can extract strategic metals from electronic waste in seconds. The technology works, the Pentagon is paying attention, and Britain controls scattered island territories perfect for deployment. What's missing is the political will to connect dots nobody else is joining.
Reports
Britain's nuclear deterrent depends on factories falling apart. Facilities meant to replace them are a decade late and billions over budget. Our defence relies on one submarine not failing, and we can't manufacture weapons. The Ministry of Defence doesn't want you to know how bad things have become.
Reports
The UK is still a formidable specialist military, but it is not a serious warfighting nation anymore. It lacks the people, the steel, the fuel, and the ammunition to survive a modern sustained conflict. Its nuclear weapons barely work. Hyperbole? No. NATO, the MOD, MPs, allies, and enemies agree.
History
When Parliament fled Westminster in 1858, gagging on Thames sewage, Joseph Bazalgette built sewers saving millions of lives. Today two billion people still lack sanitation, facing Victorian London's horrors while we ignore the unfinished sanitation revolution.