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European defense industrial woes need a transatlantic remedy

Brussels is still recovering from former Prime Minister of Italy Mario Draghi’s European competitiveness report, which provided a dramatic assessment of industrial capacity in the European Union (EU) and an even more controversial set of recommendations to accompany it. Published on September 9, the report paints a dire picture of the EU’s economic landscape, citing

Elliot Ackerman in the Atlantic on the death of Nasrallah

Original Source On September 28, Elliot Ackerman, non-resident senior fellow at Forward Defense, published a piece in the Atlantic entitled “Hezbollah’s Long War Is With America Too.” Ackerman speaks on his experience as a US Marine Corps officer participating in the evacuation of American citizens during the Second Lebanon War. He explains how his experience

Elliot Ackerman in the Atlantic on Ukraine

Original Source On September 30, Elliot Ackerman, non-resident senior fellow at Forward Defense, published a piece in the Atlantic with Karl Marlantes entitled “The Abandonment of Ukraine.” In this piece, Ackerman and Marlantes emphasize the pace of battlefield innovation since the beginning of the war in Ukraine and the inability of the West to both

The West must learn defense tech lessons on the Ukrainian battlefield

The Russia-Ukraine War has become the proving ground for some of the latest innovations in military technology. This is most immediately apparent in the rapid evolution of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) or drones. These range from reconnaissance and surveillance drones, which maintain an “eye in the sky” above the battle space, to combat UAVs that

Ending Russian impunity: Why Ukraine needs justice as well as security

With no end in sight to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, some members of the international community are now advocating for a negotiated settlement that risks rewarding Moscow for its aggression. The idea of offering the Kremlin concessions is dangerously shortsighted and overlooks the central importance of justice in any future peace settlement. Failing to

Alkhatib joins France 24 to discuss October 7 a year later

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