Professor Dr Julian Lindley-French Chairman at The Alphen Group January 20, 2025 FP ARGUMENT An expert's point of view on a current event. A New NATO Deal for America Here is how Europe can meet the Trump administration’s expectations on defense. By Hans … [Read more...]
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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...]
FORUMUL SECURITATII MARITIME
MS DAILY BRIEF – JANUARY 8 th, 2025 READ AND SHARE! Daily appearance Monday-Saturday 10 AM (GMT +2) Some information is presented when possible from several sources BREAKING: Houthis PANIC after threat to assassinate Israel; IDF steps up Gaza strikes | TBN Israel Update from Ukraine | Operation … [Read more...]
Managing Tensions between Algeria and Morocco
What’s new? Since 2021, Algeria and Morocco have been embroiled in a diplomatic crisis. Incidents in Western Sahara risk bringing the two countries to blows, and Rabat’s relations with Israel are a source of friction. Why does it matter? Mutual self-restraint and U.S. pressure have helped contain … [Read more...]
China’s Remote Sensing
Summary: This report below, prepared for the Commission by OTH Intelligence Group LLC, details China’s rapid development of mature remote sensing capabilities in pursuit of its economic and societal development, national security and geopolitical interests, and military modernization. Remote … [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...]
What China’s Persistent Deflation Means for the World
China’s spiral into deflation is proving hard to fix. Prices in the world’s second-biggest economy have fallen for six consecutive quarters, and if they fall for one more quarter, the run would equal a record deflationary streak set in the Asian Financial Crisis in the late 1990s. Policymakers have … [Read more...]
AFP’s investigation into Ghost networking app continues to disrupt criminal activity
David Hollingworth The Australian Federal Police has said that its investigation into the Ghost criminal messaging app, which was taken down by a global law enforcement operation in September, is continuing to lead to arrests. “Nearly 400 Ghost devices were operated in Australia and sent … [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...]
Migrant workers ‘indispensable’ to global economic growth: UN labour agency
Some 167.7 million migrants were part of the labour force in their destination countries in 2022 – an increase of more than 30 million since 2013, according to the ILO Global Estimates on International Migrant Workers. Of this number, 102.7 million were men and 64.9 million were women. Regional … [Read more...]