Germany, Israel’s No. 2 arms dealer, halts exports over Gaza concerns
Germany accounted for around 30% of Israel’s arms imports between 2019 and 2023, second only to the United States.
By Linus Höller
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Meloni presses Leonardo, Fincantieri on spending EU defense cash
Italian government and industry leaders are rushing this week to figure out how to spend a EU-backed windfall of billions of euros in defense cash.
By Tom Kington
The Army’s brigade combat teams are ready for a big fight, but is that enough?
Top Army leaders will stress test everything from forts to ports to rail lines.
By Todd South
Humanitarian assistance? Regional security? Whatever the scenario, Defender Pacific isn’t a war game, says general
The Army will flow roughly 12,000 soldiers into the Pacific region next year around September for a military exercise.
By Jen Judson
How training and deploying OCONUS is changing for soldiers
Soldiers no longer have the luxury of deploying to a war zone and falling in on equipment already in place.
By Kyle Rempfer
US Congress mulls arms export ban on Turkey for incursion into Syria
U.S. lawmakers are readying bills to sanction and potentially ban U.S. arms exports to Turkey to punish it over military operations in northern Syria.
By Joe Gould
Fighting the bureaucracy: For NATO, the Defender 2020 exercise in Europe will test interoperability
For NATO, its ability to receive forces and equipment from the U.S., stage them, move them forward onto the battlefield and integrate them will be the focus throughout the exercise.
By Jen Judson
Reforger redux? Defender 2020 to be 3rd largest exercise in Europe since Cold War
Defender 2020 is meant to test deterrence capabilities in Europe at a massive scale.
By Jen Judson
Ukraine aid delay irked lawmakers for weeks, but Trump told some about ‘quid pro quo,’ says HASC chair
As President Trump held Ukraine military aid, lawmakers say they were kept in the dark.
By Joe Gould
Why the new European Commission president should launch the first-ever EU defense whitepaper
Is the next European Commission chief willing to push through a defense revolution, or settle for more of the same?
By Fabrice Pothier
A tale of two future fighters
There’s a tale of two fighters underway in Europe. And countries — and their companies — are choosing sides.
By Jill Aitoro
Jump-starting Europe’s work on military artificial intelligence
Our suggestion: Create a data mobility framework that would guide future concepts, models, algorithms, data sharing, access to elastic computing power, and sophisticated testing and training.
By Heiko Borchert und Christian Brandlhuber