Hard Power @DefenseStartups

We cover the military contracts, capabilities, and congressional policies and report on their alignment with hard power around the world. landoffset.com Washington, D.C. Joined December 2024

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Hard Power @DefenseStartups

8 months ago

From a practical perspective, if the US is to go isolationist in economic and security terms. The financial system will consider new oil currencies. There are few dark oil depots. Venezuela is one of them. Warm water port denial kneecaps Russia & China.

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9 months ago

This stabilization will buy time and space for both powers to develop more weapons and collection platforms. The competition is all levers of power - but hard power when achieved is what China will wield for regional hegemony.

Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand

9 months ago

Absolutely extraordinary paper by RAND, the main think tank of the US military-industrial complex, and another key sign that the U.S. deep state - despite all the chaos and noise - is shifting away from deterring China, towards accepting coexistence (it's literally what they

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9 months ago

Consider this new upstart whose sole focus is the development and review of contracts, actions, policies, and concepts that do or do not increase American Military Hard Power and nothing else.

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9 months ago

AUSA 2025 made something obvious: they do not care about science projects. They want programs of hard power, and software alone, integrated with hardware, is not sufficient for today's military acquisition system.

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9 months ago

Hard Power is not the sole Domain of steel but now quiet domains in concert with steel and the sinew they reap. Is China preparing for war? #Shorts youtube.com/shorts/B9aZA0E… via @YouTube

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Hard Power @DefenseStartups

10 months ago

Time ticks towards European rearmament. Time dilation between industrial windows forces a nation to shone down on hard power in face of an existential threat

Financial Times @FT

10 months ago

French prime minister names cabinet as he seeks to finalise a budget on.ft.com/3J2ttsA

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10 months ago

It’s eventual integration with hardware will usher in a new hard power era that can see a new Grand Armieé when merged with new war foundations

Barron's @barronsonline

10 months ago

Artificial intelligence has gone from a cool toy to a prime mover of both the economy and the stock market. Here are four ways the rally could end.

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CSIS @CSIS

10 months ago

As Japan is poised to select its new prime minister, the breakdown of the long-time coalition between the Liberal Democratic Party and Komeito increases uncertainty about the path ahead, @KristiGovella writes. Learn more from @JapanChair: csis.org/analysis/japan…

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Leading Report @LeadingReport

10 months ago

BREAKING: President Trump orders the payment of troops, will not miss their checks despite government shutdown.

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Hard Power @DefenseStartups

10 months ago

This does not allow Russia and, by proxy, China to deliver devastation through a surgical long-range strike. Hard power comes in many forms.

CSIS @CSIS

10 months ago

Russia has not achieved air superiority over Ukraine in more than three years of fighting, but Israel seized air superiority over Iran in less than four days. Read more from @CSIS_Threats about lessons from Iran and Ukraine: csis.org/analysis/air-s…

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Financial Times @FT

10 months ago

The Nobel Peace Prize organisers are investigating a potential leak after online betting surged in favour of Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado just hours before she was announced as this year’s winner. on.ft.com/48pIKhC

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10 months ago

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10 months ago

This inches the international community closer to US Hard Power flexed on Venezuela to free the oppressed there.

Leading Report @LeadingReport

10 months ago

BREAKING: President Trump says Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Corina Machado called him and said: “I’m accepting this in honor of you, because you really deserved it.”

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Hard Power @DefenseStartups

11 months ago

A shift towards para-cids initiatives is the sole rational approach to prevent squandering time and reciprocity with the DOD in designing, evaluating, refining, integrating, and deploying elements of conflict and peace. Events will be organized and missions researched by The OFFSET buff.ly/aaajNiI

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Hard Power @DefenseStartups

12 months ago

FY2026 SAC-D mark up. Not much of a mark up. They passed some amendments and moaned about the big plane from Qatar. If you were tracking - there’s not much of a change and whatever was is and will go to house for consideration before conference.