Defense, defense, defense, resilience, defense: these are the main preoccupations of the telecoms sector this year. Of course, every industry is more aware of its vulnerabilities in the divided world of 2026, but communication systems, the lifeblood that holds most other systems together, are on the front lines. In a recent report, Vodafone Group is calling on European leaders to step up and protect communications networks. It is right to ask for a more strategic role for public fixed and mobile networks. However, the pitch also bleeds into a new area of economic interest for telcos, which is their own role as defense contractors. This will be of increasing interest as they eye up expanding defense budgets The issue of…