Afghanistan’s opium ban cut cultivation by 96%. Its effects on global narcotics markets, and on criminal revenues and profits, are far less certain.

Canada’s defense spending surge targets 125,000 new jobs by 2035. Unmanned systems, not autos, may be the industry that replaces what tariffs took.

As the border has grown increasingly unstable, Bangladesh now faces three worsening challenges involving the Arakan Army: ...

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.

ASEAN sent five members to the 2026 BRICS summit in New Delhi. The cost may be the strategic ambiguity that made the bloc ...

Japan has turned JS Kaga into an F-35B carrier and is converting Izumo. What the change does for deterrence, the US alliance, ...

Houthis seize Mocha and Perim, tightening the Bab al-Mandab as Saudi oil reroutes; Canada copies Ukraine's drone playbook; ...

India now builds 65% of its own military hardware, and is pressing Moscow for technology transfer rather than finished weapons. The leverage has shifted.

The Trump administration’s Venezuela oil deal grants North American Blue Energy Partners, a private Venezuelan producer, ...

Peacemaking has shifted toward military capacity at the expense of universalism, but peace cannot be reduced to the absence ...

Putin’s visit to Iturup underscores how fundamentally Japan–Russia relations have changed since the outbreak of the war in ...