Zelensky told German media in an interview earlier this week that Ukraine is planning another counteroffensive against Russia, which is why it requires production licenses from its partners in order to build up its domestic military-industrial capacity ahead of...
Bloomberg’s Andy Mukherjee published a detailed piece on Sunday about “Why India’s South Rejects Modi — And Why It Matters”. The Indian-born author drew attention to socio-economic differences between the two culturally distinct parts of his homeland in an...
Russia’s foreign intelligence service SVR reported on Tuesday that American PMCs are recruiting convicted Mexican and Colombian drug dealers from prison with the support of the DEA and FBI. They’re offered complete amnesty if they survive, but the talks...
Alex de Waal and Mulugeta Gebrehiwot Berhe co-authored an article for the powerful Council on Foreign Relations’ Foreign Affairs magazine titled “Ethiopia Back on the Brink: How Abiy’s Reckless Ambition—and Emirati Meddling—are Fueling Chaos in the Horn”. As the...
The stage is set for Japan to participate in AUKUS’ Pillar II advanced capability projects (AI, hypersonic weapons, electronic warfare, underwater drones, quantum technologies, and space-tracking radar) after that bloc’s Defense Ministers signaled their interest in this in Monday’s...
Several NATO members have already agreed to provide so-called “security guarantees” to Ukraine whereby they promised to extend arms, intelligence, logistics, and other forms of support to it in the event that another conflict breaks out with Russia. These...
A senior defense analyst at the RAND Corporation published a piece at Foreign Policy magazine last week about how “U.S.-India Ties Remain Fundamentally Fragile”. As could be expected, Derek Grossman laid the blame largely on India’s lap, arguing that...
Kyrgyzstan’s local payments operator announced last week that it’ll stop accepting Russia’s Mir bank card on Friday, which coincided with reports that most Kazakh banks had already stopped servicing them and follows Armenia’s official decision to do the same...
Bloomberg cited unnamed “people familiar with the matter” to report on Saturday that “China Providing Geospatial Intelligence to Russia, US Warns”. The storyline weaved into their piece is that the People’s Republic isn’t as neutral towards the NATO-Russian proxy...
The “Jaish-al-Adl” (JAA) terrorist group attacked Iran’s Chabahar in the early hours of Thursday morning in a battle that killed 11 members of the security forces and neutralized 16 of their own militants. It occurred around two weeks after...
