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🚨 The UK and its NATO allies should consider going “on the offensive” to defend against Russia - put pressure on the Kremlin, cause them a dilemma and create jeopardy - rather than leaving the initiative with Moscow and defending against whatever Russia does, Lord Mark Sedwill, a former Cabinet Secretary and long-serving UK National Security Adviser, has said.View quoted post on X
He said this could be done by using conventional or hybrid defences.
Lord Sedwill, a highly regarded and leading voice in the security community, was speaking on the Royal Navy’s flagship aircraft carrier in Norway at the opening of a conference attended by serving military chiefs and ministers as well as members of the defence industry from across Europe and beyond.
Lord Sedwill posed three questions for the attendees.
Firstly, how can the UK and its allies defend effectively the North Sea and the North Atlantic - Britain’s “frontline” with Russia?
Secondly, how can allies defend against Russian, Iranian and other hostile grey zone attacks such as cyber hacks, assassinations and hoax bomb threats?
But his third point was the most strident.
Here is what Lord Sedwill said at the Atlantic Future Forum:
“This is something I really do want to emphasise. It is not just about defence.
“NATO is a defensive alliance but the most effective form of defence is often to cause a dilemma, it is often to go on the offensive against our adversaries.
“So how can we present our Russian adversaries in particular with a set of strategic dilemmas?
“How do we make them feel they are under threat? Not simply leave the initiative to them and defend against it.
“That is true whether we are talking about land, sea and air but it is also true if we are talking about the hybrid space, space, cyber space and indeed in the information space as well.
“I hope we can think that through as well.
“How - whether it is in conventional defence or in hybrid defence - can we put some pressure on the Russians?
“Because deterrence requires not just effective defence, it does require there to be some jeopardy to our adversaries in continuing to probe us.”
If you can’t see in space, you can’t win in space.
We started with the goal of proving advanced space domain awareness on-orbit. To do it, we developed a fully integrated satellite. ANDURIL-216 carries three modular mission payloads designed, built, and integrated by Anduril.
The payloads work together to deliver on the essential mission of never losing sight of an object as it circles the Earth, even in its shadow.
ANDURIL-216 is the foundation for space warfare supremacy.View quoted post on X
BREAKING: Anduril has revealed new details about its military surveillance satellite, designed to detect other spacecraft using infrared sensors and process intelligence directly in orbit.
The spacecraft, ANDURIL-216, launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 in July and is now operating in low-Earth orbit.
Developed in less than two years, the satellite carries:
> A long-wave infrared sensor designed to detect the heat signatures of spacecraft, including those hidden in Earth's shadow.
> An onboard computing system designed to process and combine sensor data in real time.
> An intelligent power-management system supporting multiple payloads.
Anduril has successfully commissioned the spacecraft and its payloads, received calibrated imagery from its sensors, and used its Lattice software to command and control the satellite.
The self-funded mission is intended to demonstrate technology for future U.S. military space-surveillance operations, potentially reducing the time required to detect and respond to threats in orbit.View quoted post on X
www.geostrategy.org.uk Securing the orbital flank: Towards a new strategy for British spacepower • Council on Geostrategy Gabriel Elefteriu describes how Britain should reorient its defence space strategy as space becomes increasingly important to warfighting. 
