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The irresistible attraction
What is the central argument of “The irresistible attraction”, and why does it matter for European defence and dual-use markets?
The irresistible attraction: A single idea has captured the defence imagination on both sides. Defence-finance analysis; 9-page sourced DFM PDF report.
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Original DFM publication · DFM Analysis report · 2026-06-05
A single idea has captured the defence imagination on both sides of the world: that a new generation of cheap, rapidly producible, seemingly revolutionary systems — drones, autonomous craft, loitering and coastal missiles — has overturned the old economy of force.
In Europe the conviction was forged in Ukraine, where uncrewed surface vessels drove a far larger Russian fleet from the western Black Sea, and where first-person-view drones turned a few hundred dollars into a destroyed armoured vehicle; it is now capitalised by a defence-technology boom that has minted billion-dollar start-ups on the promise of software-defined, attritable mass.
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