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Space Update September 2026: billions, threats – and who turns them into orbits
Space is back in the headlines with billions, threats and big words. We have sorted the news of 4 September and looked at it through the question that occupies us every day: who are the people who are supposed to make all this happen?
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Does a plane have to explode first?
Substations, airports, power cables: in 2026 the threat to critical infrastructure has moved from specialist topic to headline. We know the pattern: outcry, activism, silence. Why resilience does not fail on technology but on missing decision-makers, budgets and people.
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Quo vadis, defence industry? Twelve years on.
A look back to mark our new website: in January 2014 I wrote about shrinking budgets and an industry forced to seek growth abroad. Almost none of it holds true today. Except for one paragraph.
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Defence Talent Radar – April 2026
Which positions defence companies are currently seeking most urgently, where momentum is strongest – and what really motivates candidates. Observations from our executive search practice.
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NATO 3.0: Europe’s Biggest Staffing Question
The money is there, time is not. The real bottleneck of the build-up is not budgets but the people able to spend them wisely.
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In Search of the Common Thread
The Bundeswehr needs 20,000 soldiers, spends around 35 million euros a year on recruitment advertising – and is shrinking nonetheless. An analysis from spring 2024: why a colourful bouquet of campaigns is not employer branding.
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Quo vadis, defence technology?
Smaller budgets, less publicly funded research, growth only abroad – and an industry unprepared in the area of personnel. A look at the defence technology sector in January 2014.
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