“Rich nation, strong army,” was the adage that drove Japanese modernization – both civilian and military – in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Today it is a rallying cry for other Asian ...
A quote from the 2008 TV series "Star Wars: The Clone Wars" goes: "Wars are not won with superior weapons, but with superior strategy." However, the strategy now in the markets, it seems, is investing ...
Asia continues to witness a boom in the manufacture of arms and ammunition led by regional superpowers keen on bolstering the growth of local firms while ignoring increasing disquiet across the ...
Des Ball of the Australian National University's Strategic and Defence Studies Centre told a Kuala Lumpur conference of "disturbing new capabilities" in regional naval power. "The proliferation of ...
The collapse of the Soviet Union, the rise of political Islam, and pervasive corruption are the defining factors in the Central Asian arms trade. Countries in the region are actively selling and ...
Speculation that Asia is in the throes of an arms race has been about for longer than most defense watchers would care to remember. The speculation is usually idle, with the “arms race” label slapped ...
South Asia's nuclearization has transformed the Indo-Pakistani conflict from a regional matter into a global issue. An exchange of 100 nuclear weapons between the two nations could kill 20 million ...
The Trump administration's rattling of long-held global alliances is causing European countries to announce increased defense spending. European and Asian defense stocks have been outperforming their ...