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PROFILE: ASEAN Facing Beijing — Portrait of an Institution That Cannot Defend Itself
In June 2026, China positioned a floating platform inside the lagoon of Scarborough Shoal, a rocky formation disputed in the South China Sea, claimed…
OPEN LETTER: To the Generals Who Still Thought Drone Swarms Were Science Fiction
To you, senior officers, strategic planners, defense procurement bureaucrats who spent years reading reports on autonomous drone swarms and telling yourselves it is ten…
EDITORIAL: Iran at Geneva in the Morning, Iranian Drones in Lebanon at Night — Duplicity as Doctrine
On June 17, 2026, in Versailles, President Trump and Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei signed a 14-point memorandum of understanding. The world applauded. Europeans…
REPORT: European Rearmament in 2026 — the Speeches Are Grand, the Factories Can't Keep Up
Europe is rearming. That sentence, repeated like a mantra since 2022, is both true and misleading. True because European defense budgets have indeed increased…
OPEN LETTER: To Those Who Still Doubted Ukraine Could Build a War Industry
To you, European policymakers, skeptical journalists, experts who spent two years repeating that Ukraine lacked the industrial capacity to sustain a prolonged war of…
COMMENTARY: The Hague 2016, the South China Sea and Ten Years of Sovereign Impunity
On July 12, 2016, the arbitral tribunal of The Hague constituted under Annex VII of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the…
PROFILE: Autonomous Drones and the Legal Void — Who Is Responsible When a Machine Kills?
The global defense drone market will reach, according to analyses by BriefGlance and several specialized firms, over $55 billion by 2032 — some projections…
EDITORIAL: Gaza, Lebanon, Syria — Netanyahu Installs Permanent Occupation While the World Watches
On June 25, 2026, at a graduation ceremony for Israeli officers, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared with disturbing clarity: "We will remain in Lebanon,…
REPORT: 45 Billion for Ukraine — How NATO and the EU Are Financing the Resistance in 2026
On June 25, 2026, the Ukraine Reconstruction Conference in Gdańsk brought together representatives of 47 nations and the European Union to confirm and detail…