The next war is already being fought on the home front.
Burial drills, emergency kits and drone doctrine on one side; failed freezers, dark satellite links and stolen chip cargo on the other. The attacks that have landed so far hit infrastructure, not armies, and governments are quietly preparing the home front for more.
The evidence
Oct 30Binance lost $6.3 billion from internet wallets across ten public ledgers in 20 minutes.Money drained in minutes.
Oct 30The US Army rehearsed temporary mass burial for 2,400 war dead a day at a North Carolina base.Planning for war dead on home soil.
Oct 30Six U.S. military commissary freezers failed in August, prompting a Pentagon cyberattack investigation.A cyberattack that reaches the food supply.
Oct 29A Singapore data executive close to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang was identified as a suspected Chinese intelligence asset.Espionage near the center of the chip industry.
Oct 28Governments now urge three days of emergency supplies, reviving fears of hidden threats behind routine preparedness advice.Civilians asked to get ready.
Oct 28A DIA image confirms China has a reusable spaceplane operating in orbit.A rival's spaceplane, now confirmed.
Oct 28Drone swarms are forcing the U.S. to rethink how it projects power overseas.Cheap swarms against expensive fleets.
Oct 26Ukraine's wartime Starlink link went dark after Musk alleged lethal drone use, but was commercial Starlink or its military version hit?A private company holds a war's communications.
Oct 26Thieves have reportedly stolen over $100 million in data-center cargo by faking truck locations and freight identities.The hardware behind AI, stolen in transit.
What the evidence says
Preparing for losses at home
The Army rehearsed mass burials and governments now urge three days of emergency supplies.
Infrastructure is the battlefield
Commissary freezers failed in a suspected cyberattack and thieves faked freight identities to steal data-center cargo.
Orbit is contested
Ukraine's Starlink link went dark, SpaceX warns of missing trajectory data, and China flies a reusable spaceplane.
Cheap machines change the math
Drone swarms are forcing the US to rethink how it projects power.
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