Modernization of the Romanian Naval Forces: A Problem? – Maritime Security Forum Analysis The modernization of the Romanian Naval Forces (FNR) represents a major challenge for the national defense strategy, given the importance of the Black Sea in the current geopolitical context. Although … [Read more...]
Undersea Cables Latest Target of China’s Hybrid Warfare Strategy
Situation Reports - January 9, 2025 By Antonio Graceffo In December, European officials launched an investigation into the sabotage of undersea internet cables in the Baltic Sea, allegedly severed by a Chinese-flagged vessel. Earlier this month, a similar incident near Taiwan centered … [Read more...]
The Evolving India-Armenia Defense Partnership: Analyzing India’s Strategic Shift as a Security Partner in the Caucasus
India’s defense exports have increased significantly as the country’s military sales for FY 2023–24 totalled ₹21,083 crore (about $2.6 billion), a ten-fold increase from ₹1,941 crore in 2014-15. India now exports to over 100 nations. Armenia, the US, and France were the top three countries for these … [Read more...]
Trump Told Advisers He Wants to Visit China as President
By Alex Leary, Alexander Ward, Lingling Wei WASHINGTON—President-elect Donald Trump has told advisers he wants to travel to China after he takes office, according to people familiar with the discussions, seeking to deepen a relationship with Xi Jinping strained by the president-elect’s threat to … [Read more...]
ATLANTIC CHARTER 2025: A NEW NATO DEAL FOR AMERICA
Executive Summary NATO nations face three converging challenges that together require renewed European resource commitments to defense: 1) extreme Russian military aggressiveness and revanchism as displayed in Ukraine, and which if unchecked could extend beyond Ukraine, 2) rising Chinese military … [Read more...]
How China is adopting battlefield lessons from Ukraine
By Tye Graham and Peter W. Singer The Ukraine conflict is more than a distant spectacle to China’s People’s Liberation Army; it offers a real-time battlefield laboratory to study for its own strategic needs. From drone swarms to electronic warfare, its lessons are being methodically analyzed and … [Read more...]
It won’t come cheap: What is the true cost of defending Australia?
By: Stephen Kuper Nobody has ever said that defending Australia will come cheap. Following a big year for defence budgeting and the national accounts in particular, this has come to the fore, but with the next-half of this decade set to be more challenging, what is the true cost for defending the … [Read more...]
L’adhésion de la Roumanie au Schengen routier : une aubaine pour l’industrie du transport
by Fabien Bévis Un potentiel économique majeur pour la Roumanie Depuis 1989, la Roumanie importe plus qu’elle n’exporte. Cependant, le secteur des transports routiers se distingue comme le premier contributeur à l’export de services, avec un chiffre d’affaires de 7,82 milliards d’euros en 2023. … [Read more...]
China is training super-pilots with qigong for stealth jet and drone battle
Stephen Chen in Beijing In a secluded hot spring pool in the coastal town of Xingcheng in northeast China, a group of 50 robust men move their bodies in unison, practising a form of qigong known as baduanjin while a melody drifts through the mist. Aged between 23 and 48, the men are China’s top … [Read more...]
Lai’s letter to Trump a great start: Ex-U.S. national security advisor
Washington, Dec. 12 (CNA) A former United States national security advisor on Thursday confirmed delivering President Lai Ching-te's (賴清德) congratulatory letter to Donald Trump, calling it a "great start" for relations between the two sides. Robert O'Brien, who served as Trump's national security … [Read more...]