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DOW’s Economic Defense Unit: Top points for defense and defensetech companies

The United States Department of War (DOW)’s newly formed Economic Defense Unit (EDU) introduces funding opportunities and a new set of legal, structural, and governance considerati...

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Japan Self-Defense Forces personnel stand guard at the entrance of the Ministry of Defense in Tokyo on Tuesday.

Defense ministry security

Japan Self-Defense Forces personnel stand guard at the entrance of the Ministry of Defense in Tokyo on Tuesday.

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Japan’s Strategic Pivot: Arms Exports as a Tool of Diplomacy 

How Tokyo is leveraging defense equipment transfers to shape the Indo-Pacific order. 

Japan’s unsustainable pacifist delusion

Japan’s pacifist constitution is often cited as a constraint on what the nation of 123 million and the world’s fourth-largest economy can and cannot do militarily. The latest crisi...

Supersonic jets, cardboard drones and blast-proof specs: The defence drops that turned heads at DSA 2026

KUALA LUMPUR, April 24 — From a supersonic jet to cardboard drones, some of the world’s most cutting-edge de...

Latecomer Japan eyes slice of rising global defense spending

Long-pacifist Japan has shed its self-imposed ban on lethal weaponry exports, gunning for a prominent place in the global defense trade -- a challenging feat that analysts say…

Latecomer Japan eyes slice of rising global defense spending

Long-pacifist Japan has shed its self-imposed ban on lethal weaponry exports, gunning for a prominent place in the global defense trade -- a challenging feat that analysts say…

Japan calls next-gen fighter program “critical”

Japan’s Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi met Wednesday with the CEO of GCAP’s joint venture design company to declare the three-nation next-generation fighter program “an extremel...

Partners line up for arms deals as Japan opens defense industry door

"A number of countries" have approached Tokyo with "expressions of interest and various needs" about Japanese defense equipment, Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi said.

Japan Builds Up its Defense Posture Through Investments and Alliances

 Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is pushing ahead with election manifesto promises to strengthen Japan's defense posture.The Liberal Democratic...

Rearming Japan: ambition, constraints, and limits

Originally published by Pacific Forum, this article is republished with permission. In barely half a year, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has pushed Japan’s defense policy into unfa...

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Defense Stocks Look Bulletproof, But The Bill Could Hit 2.6% Of GDP

Defense stocks look bulletproof as military budgets rise, but widening deficits, higher debt and stubborn rates could turn the rearmament boom into a trap. Importance Rank: ...

Generation Jihad | POV: FPV (or: “The Anarchist Cookbook of war”)

Hezbollah's missiles may be depleted, but cheap FPV drones are changing the battlefield — slipping past defenses, targeting Israeli troops, and exposing a dangerous new vulnerabili...

The New Economics of War

by Edward Mermelstein, Chairman at Global NYCContinue reading on Medium »

Japan’s domestic move and its profound international impact

This month, the ruling party in Japan, the Liberal Democratic Party, recommended the scrapping of limits confining the sale of arms to five categories — transport, relief and rescu...

JIATF 401 Drone Defense Marketplace Broadens Allied Access to Counter-Drone Capabilities

Army Secretary Dan Driscoll and key leaders from Australia, Poland and South Korea recently signed agreements enabling each country to procure counter-small UAS technologies throug...

Five ways of looking at the Japanese sinking of a decommissioned Philippine ship

Philippines’ Balikatan exercise saw several missile milestones.

New Line of Departure App Puts Lessons Learned, Tactical Insights in Soldiers’ Pockets

FORT LEAVENWORTH, Kansas – Military Professionals now have instant access to all Army branch journals through the new Line of Departure app, which currently delivers more than 1,20...

Third China Shock exposing US’s broken defense economics

In the opening months of 2026, a fierce, 40-day conflagration between Iran, the United States and Israel upended decades of received wisdom regarding military power. The conflict d...

Japan reveals sweeping military space buildup

Japan’s Ministry of Defense has released a comprehensive briefing document outlining its space domain defense buildup, revealing a sweeping expansion of military space capabilities...