Welcome to The Ukraine Compass, a weekly digest of Ukrainian commentary from across the political spectrum.Every Monday, War on the Rocks members get a curated selection of op-eds and editorials from Ukrainian-language media to understand how Ukrainians themselves debate the biggest issues shaping their country. Western coverage of Ukraine often narrows to the battlefield; these pieces widen the view to daily life, politics, and public argument in a nation at war.
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U.S. Special Operations Command is looking for vendors of small one-way-attack drones that could be launched from aircraft and use automatic target recognition capabilities to find their prey.
Specifically, SOCOM is interested in Group 1 and Group 2 unmanned aerial systems that could fit inside a common launch tube with a form factor of 5.9-inch diameter and 42-inch maximum overall length, according to a sources-sought notice published Friday on a government contracting website.
Most of the loitering munitions that have made headlines in recent years have been ground-launched.
The director of the CIA made an eyebrow-raising claim this week: That when Russian recruits go on the battlefield in Ukraine, they have an average life expectancy of just 20 to 30 minutes.
According to Business Insider, the Central Intelligence Agency Director John Ratcliffe made the claim while speaking this week at the Pennsylvania Defense and Innovation Summit.
The Department of Defense task force established to conduct a top-to-bottom review of the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification kicked off Thursday, according to the Pentagon’s top IT chief.
Kirsten Davies, chief information officer of the DOD, told reporters the task force met for the first time Thursday in the Pentagon after she formally announced its creation Monday as part of a 60-day pause of forthcoming phase 2 requirements under the CMMC program and a review of the overall program.
Phase 2 requirements were set to take effect Nov. 10.
War stories often end with a homecoming.
Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” begins there.
The film delivers everything audiences expect from Homer: towering monsters, impossible voyages, brutal combat, gods who play with men, and just enough spectacle to be worthy of Nolan’s mythic epic. But beneath the surface is a quieter, more devastating observation—one familiar to generations of warriors.
Getting home isn’t the victory. It’s learning how to live there again.
L3Harris Technologies and Shield AI have conducted the first live flight trial of their Distributed Spectrum Collaboration and Operations (DiSCO) system.
The return of hostilities between the United States and Iran has led to a double-digit increase in oil prices in the span of just a week.
According to oilprice.com, oil prices were set for a 12 percent weekly gain, the largest one-week jump since April.
“The re-escalation in the Middle East and the abrupt halt to the recovery of Strait of Hormuz flows pushed crude futures prices to the highest in over a month,” the report said.
Russian Soldier’s Life Expectancy is 20-30 Minutes n Battle: The average life expectancy for a Russian soldier on the battlefield in Ukraine is only 20 to 30 minutes, CIA Director John Ratcliffe said on Wednesday.
Ratcliffe’s comments were quoted at the Pennsylvania Defense and Innovation Summit, where he said intelligence reports attribute this catastrophic survival rate largely to the widespread deployment of AI-powered, low-cost Ukrainian attack drones.
Finnish artillery units fire Howitzers At Rovajärvi exercise area In northern Finland. Image Credit: NATO.
Iran’s strangulation of the Strait of Hormuz, one of the world’s vital maritime chokepoints, has added new impetus to its neighbors’ plans to find alternative overland routes to transport their oil to ports around the world. For the Gulf countries, pipelines that can bypass the Strait are a worthwhile insurance policy — not as a completely viable alternative to the Strait.
Nearly one-fifth of the world’s oil moves through that bottleneck every day, underscoring the volume of oil that transits that waterway.
Today, the global oil market is hampered. But not by the supply of crude oil, but by the world’s refining capacity, which has become the defining bottleneck for fuel and other oil-derived products.
In the past, during energy shocks, markets were concerned about crude oil production and availability. But today, there is considerably more crude available than refiners can efficiently process.