Thailand, Brazil and Colombia chose the Gripen over US fighters. The reason is not price or stealth, but who keeps a veto over the software.
Indonesia joined BRICS without publishing a roadmap. Without benchmarks, summit visibility risks substituting for the strategy that makes it pay.
India now builds 65% of its own military hardware, and is pressing Moscow for technology transfer rather than finished weapons. The leverage has shifted.
Von der Leyen proposed Canada as the EU's first associate member. The status has no legal basis, and all three routes to creating one carry costs.
In March, Norway’s defense minister Tore O. Sandvik made an unusually confident claim that “we don’t lose those submarines,” when describing NATO’s ability to track Russian submarines leaving the Kola ...
Pakistan needs to move beyond emphasizing its strategic location and demonstrate what that position can actually offer.
ASEAN sent five members to the 2026 BRICS summit in New Delhi. The cost may be the strategic ambiguity that made the bloc ...
Rassvet, Russia’s replacement for the Starlink service SpaceX cut off, was reported failing in orbit. Its second batch was actually ahead of its first at the same age: 365.1 km against 313.5 km.