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To Secure the Natuna Sea, Indonesia Needs More Than New Ships

Maritime security is one of Indonesia’s most demanding defense domains. And at its current stage, Indonesia needs significant help.

Leaked Russian Cyber-Operations Training Materials

This is interesting: The records describe a force-generation mechanism for several General Staff components, including the GRU, Main Operational Direc...

ACG Metals produces first copper concentrate at Turkish mine 

The company transitioned its Gediktepe mine from precious metals and zinc to copper production.

Copper price stalls short of record as Chile’s storm-hit output slumps to 2011 low

Comex stockpiles have swollen to almost three times the copper left in LME warehouses as traders keep pushing metal into the US ahead of January's dut...

Boris Vujčić: Listening to households: expectations, behaviour and monetary policy

Cognitive Dissonance Dominates Hormuz

Ships can’t navigate a reality that exists only in Trump’s head.

Fighting Proxy Wars in Latin America, the US Risks Repeating Mistakes from its War on Terror

How the Trump administration’s push to reframe insecurity in Latin America in counterterrorism terms has set the stage for a surge in the kind of mili...

Drone wars deepen West’s critical minerals squeeze

15 million drones are set for deployment in the Russia-Ukraine war, marking the start of mass drone warfare.

Japan, South Korea, and the New Logic of Nuclear Energy Security in Northeast Asia

The two neighbors are reshaping the nuclear politics of Northeast Asia – and doing so increasingly in concert with Washington.

Ayesha Siddiqa on the Pakistan Army’s Police State

Siddiqa argues that Pakistan is not a hybrid regime but a case of constitutional militarism, sanctioned by a parliament that has legislated away its o...

Xi embarks on whirlwind diplomatic tour

The tour is meant to showcase China has “friends and options,” one expert said.

Uzbekistan confirms purchase of Chinese J-10 fighter jets

Tashkent is now the second foreign operator of the J-10 after Pakistan.