About BattlePolicy
Daily defense-tech intelligence — where the startup and technology story meets the battlefield, with a European and Ukrainian edge.
BattlePolicy is a daily defense-tech intelligence brief, published by Schuler Media, LLC. We fuse the startup and technology story with the battlefield — tracking how new systems, capital, and policy reshape modern conflict. Our primary focus is the war in Ukraine and Russia, with a close watch on Iran, Israel, Europe, and China.
Tech Meets the Battlefield
We connect the defense-tech startup story to what actually happens in the field — drones, autonomy, sensors, and the systems changing how wars are fought.
Primary Focus: Ukraine & Russia
The war in Ukraine is reshaping modern defense technology faster than anywhere else. We track it closely, with a watch on Iran, Israel, Europe, and China.
Context Over Noise
Interrogating claims rather than republishing them. Every story asks: who benefits, what's the evidence, and what isn't being said?
That discipline becomes a product in Q3 2026: The Fielding Report measures the distance between defense-tech announcements and the battlefield — quarterly, preregistered, source-linked.
Senior broadcast journalist and former ARD correspondent for Europe's largest public broadcasting network. Covering technology for over 10 years. Founded BattlePolicy to fuse the defense-tech startup story with the battlefield, with a primary focus on the war in Ukraine and Russia. Leads editorial strategy and writes BattlePolicy Weekly.
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Human Bylines
Every story carries a human byline with a link to the author's bio. We believe accountability starts with putting a name on the work.
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Format Transparency
Stories are labeled by format — News, Analysis, or Opinion — so readers always know what they're reading and the editorial intent behind it.
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Primary-Source Fact-Checking
We fact-check against primary sources: white papers, GitHub repositories, SEC filings, court documents, and official records. Not other news articles.
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AI-Assisted
AI tools assist our newsroom with transcription and data parsing, but no article text is generated by AI.
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Corrections Policy
Errors are corrected promptly with timestamped notes appended to the original article. If you spot something wrong, email corrections@battlepolicy.com.
BattlePolicy is wholly owned and operated by Schuler Media LLC, a media company founded by Marcus Schuler. It is funded through reader subscriptions and consulting services. We accept no venture capital, and no outside investor has editorial influence over our coverage.
Beyond the newsroom, BattlePolicy takes commissioned assignments — due-diligence memos, market-entry briefs, competitive landscapes and private briefings — for investors, defense companies and public institutions. Every assignment is scoped to a defined decision question, priced as a fixed quote, and delivered in one to three weeks. Client work never buys coverage: commissioned research is walled off from editorial, and accepting an assignment does not stop us from reporting critically on a client or its market. Scope and process: the Research Desk.
Coming Q3 2026: a quarterly census of the systems defense-tech startups and neo-primes actually get to the battlefield. Every eligible system announced since 2022 is tracked from announcement through demonstration, contract, operational fielding, and publicly documented combat employment — including the paths procurement databases miss, from donations to Ukraine's Brave1 credits.
The rules are preregistered: eligibility, evidence thresholds, and the headline metric are locked before any system is selected, hard claims require two independent sources, and every published conclusion carries a citation and a date. The report is free to read; the full dataset and evidence ledgers are part of BattlePolicy Pro. Subscribe free to get Edition 1 on release.
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