Three in four space-security experts expect attacks on foreign satellites to become reality within five years, according to a survey cited by finance.biggo.com. The same week brought warnings about a fraying US nuclear deterrent, a French push to widen its nuclear umbrella over Europe, a NATO-commissioned study on fuel security, and an Atlantic Council call for Gulf states to build resilience against the fallout of the Iran war.

In Washington, America's deployed nuclear force "has remained stagnant" even as allies grow anxious about the country's will and capability to deter a catastrophic war, according to the American Enterprise Institute. US nuclear strategy has long rested on a simple promise: that nuclear-backed aggression costs the aggressor more than it gains. A stagnant arsenal tests whether that promise still holds.

France is expanding its initiative to extend nuclear deterrence protection across Europe, tovima.com reports — a hedge against doubts about Washington's commitment as much as a response to any single threat.

NATO is also examining a less glamorous vulnerability: fuel. Research from the University of Aberdeen is feeding into the alliance's analysis of Europe's future fuel security — a reminder that tanks, jets and ships are useless without supply chains able to survive disruption.

In the Gulf, the Atlantic Council argues the Iran war has created new stresses that no single Gulf government can absorb alone: resilience requires the region's states to work together, and it carries a cost — but complacency, the think tank argues, carries a higher one.

Watch whether France's nuclear outreach produces concrete commitments from other EU states, whether NATO's fuel review leads to actual stockpiling decisions, and whether any government funds satellite defenses before an attack forces the issue.