Recent improvements illustrate how Malaysia is determined to cement its place as an up-and-coming power in Southeast Asia and possibly beyond.

The combination of internal pressure from defense-minded voters and external pressure from NATO allies is spurring Ottawa forward on defense spending. And though the 2% NATO target will remain elusive over the short term, a paradigm shift may be in-the-making.

The US military budget for 2025 maintains the traditional defense posture of out-spending any near-peer competitor; however, its only getting harder to keep pace.

Tokyo is taking another step away from its post-WWII pacifist tradition and toward greater defense industry integration with key partners.

The next great leap in radar technology threatens to render strategic standards like stealth technology and signal jamming irrelevant.

The proliferation of Turkish drones amongst Russian adversaries from Libya to Ukraine presents Moscow with a strategic challenge in its near abroad.

Geopolitical forces could mean that the global COVID-19 dip in defense spending turns out to be short-lived.

So long as the EU defense industry is not the sum of its national parts, it will struggle to compete with giants like Russia and the United States.

In a blow to separate Franco-German efforts, Sweden has apparently signed onto the British-led consortium to build a next generation European fighter jet.

All of these best-laid plans from Brussels to bolster continental military capacity and foster a globally competitive European industrial base are imperiled by the United Kingdom’s exit from the EU.