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Pandemic, Parcels and Public Vaccination: Envisioning the Next Normal for the Last-Mile Ecosystem (WEF)

Growing demand for e-commerce delivery will result in 36% more delivery vehicles in inner cities by 2030, which without effective intervention will lead to...

DoD needs data management change for zero trust security (Defense News)

Egon Rinderer The increasing complexity of current and emerging cloud, multicloud and hybrid network environments combined with the rapidly escalating and evolving nature of adversary...

India, Australia cleared to buy $4.3B in US military gear (Defense News)

Aaron Mehta The Biden administration this week approved a trio of potential foreign military sales cases for Australia and India, items worth a potential $4.36 billion for...

USA/Russia – Biden-Putin summit in works for summer, says Sullivan (Defense News)

Joe Gould A summit between U.S. President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin is in the works for this summer in a third country...

Yearlong delay hits operational test of Alaska-based missile defense radar (Defense News)

Jen Judson The U.S. Air Force’s ballistic missile defense radar being installed at Clear Air Force Station, Alaska, won’t have its only operational flight test for another...

The Iniochos military exercise in Greece is bad news for Iran (Defense News)

 Bradley Bowman and Ryan Brobst Greece hosted the Iniochos 2021 military exercise in April, welcoming military forces from the United States, Israel, the United Arab Emirates, Cyprus and a...

Turkey converts Simsek training system into a kamikaze drone (Defense News)

Tayfun Ozberk Turkish Aerospace Industries has converted its Simsek training system into a kamikaze drone. https://www.defensenews.com/unmanned/2021/04/30/turkey-converts-simsek-training-system-into-a-kamikaze-drone/

Israel/Palestine – Apartheid in the Holy Land (Project-Syndicate)

FAWAZ A. GERGES In a landmark report, Human Rights Watch has concluded that the nearly seven million Palestinians in the occupied territories and Israel itself...

China – The Two Sides of Chinese GDP (Project-Syndicate)

NANCY QIAN Many economists care more about China’s per capita GDP, or income per person, than the aggregate measure. The key takeaway is that China...

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