Friday NatSec Roundup

 In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock.

• What happened with HMS Defender in the Black Sea?
• Switzerland picks the F-35, which won the fighter contract competition by a country mile.
• The political economy of ransomware.
• A history of naval warfare illustrated by shipwrecks…
• China is rapidly building ICBM silos in the western desert…
• GRU has stepped up hacking activities for the summer.