6+ day, 29+ min ago   (883+ words) For seventy years, the defense industrial base was conceived in essentially national terms. States sought to preserve sovereign production capacity, underwritten by national champions, national procurement systems, and international supply chains that were, for the most part, treated as stable…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (427+ words) Europe’s defense industry is being remade by a war that is no longer purely European. What began in February 2022 as a continental crisis has become a genuinely cross-regional industrial event, in which Asian states, as suppliers, as combatants by proxy,…...