Mauro Gilli
@maurogilli.bsky.social
Professor of Military Strategy and Technology at the Hertie School in Berlin. Great powers rivalry, future of war, tech competition. Born 🇮🇹, 9y 🇺🇸, 9y🇨🇭, 🇩🇪 https://sites.google.com/site/maurogilli2/
France's Interior Ministry has ordered Ksenia Fedorova, former head of RT France, expelled from the country. It accuses her of acting "as a conduit for disinformation campaigns orchestrated by the Russian authorities" with the aim of "destabilizing the public order." www.france24.com/en/france/20...
France orders Russian journalist Xenia Fedorova to leave country over alleged Kremlin propaganda
France has ordered Russian journalist Xenia Fedorova to leave the country, the interior ministry said on Wednesday, amid accusations that she spread Kremlin propaganda through French television and ra...
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Recently, ASML has been a lot in the news. In a new article, we explain why concerns about industrial espionage, reverse engineering and talent poaching miss the critical challenge that the production of lithography machines poses: systems integration. tinyurl.com/3u79rj7e
ASML's Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography and the Limits of Reverse Engineering in China
In June, the U.S. Department of Commerce informed the Dutch company ASML that it suspects one of its extreme ultraviolet lithography machines has reached
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"Vulnerability discovery is an orchestration problem: analysis, hypothesis generation, harness construction, execution, verification, and long-horizon memory. Block access to one model and the same workflow runs on another." should also apply to cybersecure #systemsEngineering #systemsAI?
Layer 8½@mbrookspetersen.eurosky.social · 2w agoIf you're interested in how to go about this, give Niels Provos' blog a visit.
“Clearview AI, which took advantage of a lack of regulations around biometrics and people's faces online to build a massive database,” really “took advantage of the BS GAFAM claims of self-governance” which @microsoft.com in particular trumpeted as demonstrating its #aiethics — indeed it did. 1/2
Don't forget that some (pro-Russian charlatans) have been accusing Bellingcat of being a CIA-psyop.
Bellingcat@bellingcat.com · 5mo agoNew video footage shows a US Tomahawk missile hitting an IRGC facility in Minab, Iran, on Feb 28, showing for the first time that the US struck the area. The footage also shows smoke already rising from the vicinity of the girls’ school, where 175 people were reportedly killed, including children.
Flattered to be included in this detailed Financial Times article on the cat-and-mouse game between Israeli/US interdiction assets and Iranian ballistic-missile launchers. www.ft.com/content/b2b3...
The hunt for Iran’s ballistic missile crews
Tehran’s missiles are key to its retaliation against Israel and the US. But launching them brings an immediate risk of death
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The Dutch Defence Minister suggested on a radio interview that European countries can “jailbreak” an F-35 in case the US blocked software updates: “I'm going to say something I should never say, but I'll do it anyway. Just like your iPhone, you can jailbreak an F-35. I won't say more about it.”
Shadow tanker PEACE lacks safety management, insurance. She is flying a false flag of Timor-Leste where Timor-Leste demands of other states to stop her. She is lawless. Sanctioned by EU and UK. She is on her fifth delivery of Russian crude to India last 12m. She is leaving Baltic Sea laden now.
For those keeping score, Bellingcat, The New York Times Visual Investigation Team, & Washington Post's Visual Forensic team have all published analysis showing the ICE shooter wasn't in the path of Renee Nicole Good’s vehicle when he shot her, contradicting statements by the President & his cronies
Evidence coming up. Some of these systems however were in hangars. I assume we will know more soon.
Mauro Gilli@maurogilli.bsky.social · 7mo agoWe know the US hit some targets in Venezuela with precision munitions, I haven't followed whether any of these was part of the air defense network, but I suspect at least some were. Important in this regard is that you don't need to strike the whole air defense network. www.twz.com/air/u-s-kami...
We have only limited data, so here is a conjecture based on what we know about US approaches to suppressing and destroying enemy air defenses from the past.
Joanna Bryson@j2bryson.bsky.social · 7mo agoI'd still like to know technologically (or systemically?) how the Russian antiaircraft systems in Venezuela failed to function. cc @maurogilli.bsky.social @attackerman.bsky.social Asking for a few friendly continents. via @stollmeyer.bsky.social
Chinese military simulated battles near Mexico, Cuba and Taiwan, CCTV report shows Rare insight revealed on state television in footage from a PLA wargaming event in central China where dozens of systems were demonstrated
Happy holidays to everyone, and merry Christmas to those celebrating it. And if you don't know it already, here is one of the best Christmas stories about air defense. #SantaDetected www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
How a child's phone call to US air base began Christmas tradition
The Santa Tracker brings the magic of Christmas alive and children are able to imagine that the sleigh going across the globe is carrying their presents.
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"a manifesto for a radically different American project. It is narrower, more partisan, more inwardly focused, and more personalized than any of its predecessors.”
Ten Jolting Takeaways from Trump’s New National Security Strategy
The new National Security Strategy is out, and it’s a shock to the system. It is not just the latest public articulation of principles, ambitions, and
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The All-Russian Cossack Society turns school clubs into pipelines for state-sponsored militarisation and recruitment for war in Ukraine. Bellingcat shows how they shape an alternative mobilisation force: www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/12...
From School to Battlefield to Grave: How Russian Cossacks drive young people to war - bellingcat
The All-Russian Cossack Society turns school clubs into pipelines for state-sponsored militarisation and recruitment for war in Ukraine. Bellingcat shows how they shape an alternative mobilisation for...
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Beyond surreal. The message to Moscow is that European defense is not a priority.
Ulrike Franke@rikefranke.bsky.social · 8mo agoCan’t decide who this is worse for, the EU or the UK. But the real looser, of course, is European defence. So all of us. on.ft.com/4pb0xP6 UK talks to join EU defence fund break down
Finnish Air Force confirmed B-52 over Finland where it conducted simulated weapons drops on the Sotinputo range. x.com/finnishairfo... 60-0036 is part of Bomber Task Force recently deployed to Morón. Today’s mission part of strengthening air ops in Northern region. ac.nato.int/archive/2025...
@hoanssolo.bsky.social, Adjunct Senior Fellow at the @cnas.bsky.social joins the Vilnius Foreign and Security Policy Conference on November 21 to discuss modern warfare, defense innovation, and the future of strategic security. Learn more: conference.gssc.lt Photo credits: CNAS
"Recent data from Advocates for Children of New York shows that 154,000 students in the city’s public school system were homeless — about one in eight pupils" www.ft.com/content/46c1...
Bellingcat has geolocated footage of a mass killing outside the recently captured Sudanese city of El Fasher. In the video, which has circulated widely online, RSF commander Abu Lulu can be seen firing his weapon at what appears to be ten unarmed men sitting on the ground. Image: @vantortech
US, Russia’s tests & subs, Euro deterrent, conventional forces, US space force & House of Dynamite in this week’s STAND newsletter, a project by @swp-intsecurity.bsky.social on recent news & analyses to better #underSTAND #nuclear #space #deterrence & #threats 1/10
President Zelenskyy in Sweden today: Ukraine plans to buy 100-150 JAS-39 Gripen E fighters. Certainly a positive sign for the post-war prospects of the Ukrainian Air Force. Great EW suite, modern AESA radar, Meteor missile compatible. But, it doesn't help win the current war.
Very interesting article discussing what might lurk behind the Nexperia controversy. bits-chips.com/article/lets...
Let’s not forget Itec in the Nexperia affair - Bits&Chips
The storm surrounding Nexperia has mostly been told as a story about chips and geopolitics. But in the shadow of that debate sits a smaller, quieter player: its subsidiary Itec. At this firm resides m...
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"A recent report by the House Select Committee on the CCP issued a startling warning: U.S. Department of Defense funding has routinely sponsored research conducted by institutions with deep links to China’s defense industrial base. " @thediplomat.com thediplomat.com/2025/10/why-...
Why Is the US Defense Department Funding China’s Military Research?
It’s time for the U.S. government to start consolidating its blacklists.
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New START, US help to Ukraine, Steadfast Noon, Euro deterrence, Chinese & DPRK’s capabilities, SATCOM & the military use of space in this week’s STAND newsletter, a project by @swp-intsecurity.bsky.social, on recent news & analyses to better #underSTAND #nuclear #space #deterrence & #threats 1/10
Ich hatte vor kurzem die Chance mit Marlen Oehler für den Podcast @nzz.ch Geopolitik zu sprechen: "Krieg der Satelliten? Wie die Machtspiele auf Erden den Weltraum erfassen" www.nzz.ch/podcast/krie...
Krieg der Satelliten: Die Militarisierung des Weltraums - NZZ Geopolitik
Moderne Kriege sind ohne Satelliten nicht mehr denkbar. Nicht nur zivile Infrastruktur im Weltraum wird für kriegerische Auseinandersetzung auf der Erde genutzt, auch die Bewaffnung des Alls erreicht ...
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