The US, the European Union, and the UK face two major challenges when imposing sanctions on Russian military production. First, it’s not always clear which products are being imported specifically for the military. Second, a sanctioned company quickly grows into a new one, and the military-industrial complex struggles to adapt …

From Red Sea security to BRICS solidarity, a wider Middle East war would stress-test the continent’s fragile supply chains and geopolitical alliances, and put South Africa’s Iran links under a microscope. Here are five risks to watch. As US warships mass off the Iranian coast and Western allies scramble to …

This will one day link with the existing “military Schengen” between the Netherlands, Germany, and Poland, which Belgium and France plan to join, for creating a contiguous zone of free military movement between the Pyrenees and the approach to St. Petersburg. The Baltic States’ Defense Ministers signed a statement of …