Author's publications
Cheap Is Not a Strategy
The wrong question
Why the cheapest drone is rarely the cheapest result, and how I think about price, effect, scale and change.
Many drone manu...
October 21, 2026
19:38
You Can Copy the Paperwork. You Can’t Copy the Deadline
Every foreign delegation that visits Ukraine's defense-tech sector asks some version of the same question: what is the one thing that makes this wo...
September 17, 2026
20:18
Drone Swarms: Where Tactics End and Strategy Begins
Our enemies are learning fast. For Ukraine, understanding what they are learning, and what they still cannot do, is a matter of survival.
One of...
August 25, 2026
22:03
Design Written in Blood
Why veteran-led teams build the mission systems that survive first contact
In the US, "Veteran-Founded" is not just a good line on a slide. It is ...
August 13, 2026
19:53
What “Battle-Tested” Really Means: Ukraine Is Not a Lab. It Is the Exam
Every pitch deck I see now has the same two words on the first slide. Battle-tested. Combat-proven. Validated in Ukraine.
Some of these claims a...
July 28, 2026
11:21
Eurosatory 2026. Is Europe Ready for Modern War?
Every major defence exhibition is about more than hardware. It is a snapshot of how the industry imagines the next war. That is why I look at event...
June 26, 2026
11:24
