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The German Weapons Shortage

Germany’s foreign minister suggested this week that Germany cannot send more of its own weapons to Ukraine because it has deficient supplies. If this...

Daily Memo: Kazakhstan to Ban Military Exports

Military exports ban. Kazakhstan will suspend the export of military products, military equipment, weapons and ammunition until the end of August 2023. The government...

Balkan States Reconsider Their Alliances

A new theater in the global economic war has opened in the Balkans, the mountainous region in southeastern Europe stretching from the Adriatic to...

Daily Memo: A Warning Over Spiking Energy Prices

Rising energy costs. British energy regulator Ofgem said Friday that energy bills for Britons will rise by 80 percent from October, to more than...

Reflections on the Black Sea

In 2019, my wife and I went to Romania, where in addition to meeting with Romanian leaders and military brass, we visited Constanta, a...

Daily Memo: Taiwan Proposes Defense Budget Boost, Canada to Return More Turbines

Taiwanese defense. Taiwan proposed increasing its defense spending next year by 13.9 percent compared to this year. This would bring Taiwan’s total defense budget...

In Iraq’s Political Stalemate, Muqtada al-Sadr Is No Kingmaker

Iraq’s political impasse shows no signs of ending. Following elections last October, a bloc led by influential Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr emerged as the...

Daily Memo: US Airstrikes in Syria, Ukraine’s Independence Day

Countering Iran. U.S. forces conducted airstrikes against facilities in Deir el-Zour, Syria, that it said were used by groups affiliated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary...

Daily Memo: Abbas and Erdogan to Hold Talks

Ankara meeting. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will meet with his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in Ankara on Tuesday. Their meeting comes less than...

The Permanence of War and Peace

Last week my friend and colleague, Jacek Bartosiak, wrote a piece for GPF titled ā€œThe Scalable World War Ahead,ā€ in which he warned that...

Daily Memo: Scholz in Canada, Japan Considers Missile Deployment

Energy talks. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Economy Minister Robert Habeck arrived in Canada for a three-day visit amid Germany's effort to find alternatives...

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