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Adding India to the Five Eyes Would Cause a New Cold War, Pakistani Official Says (Patrick Tucker, Defense One)

Adding India to the Five Eyes intelligence-sharing club would hurt U.S.-Pakistan relations as Islamabad tries to coordinate a regional response to a growing Afghanistan...

DARPA has caught a Gremlin drone in midair. Can it grab four in a half-hour? (Stephen Losey, Defense News)

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and Dynetics proved they can catch an X-61A Gremlin drone in flight and bring it aboard a C-130A mothership. But...

Pentagon tech chief seeks to bolster R&D work with allies (Joe Gould, Defense News)

The Pentagon doesn’t want to innovate alone. Heidi Shyu, the undersecretary of defense for research and engineering, said Monday that she has discussed the Pentagon’s...

UAE pursues better border security collaboration, more domestic capabilities (Agnes Helou, Defense News)

The United Arab Emirates has created a new border security organization to improve coordination between its seven emirates and their array of capabilities, which...

Israel’s Elbit to make land surveillance system for Cyprus (Seth J. Frantzman, Defense News)

The governments of Israel and Cyprus signed an agreement Thursday to develop a land surveillance system that would see Elbit Systems create the platform. The...

India’s answer to China’s ports in Sri Lanka (Chulanee Attanayake, The Interpreter)

On 30 September, Adani Group, India’s largest private port operator, signed what has been reported as a US$700 million agreement to build a new container terminal...

Do Comprehensive Strategic Partnerships matter? (Henry Storey, The Interpreter)

When Australia’s Foreign Minister Marise Payne landed in Kuala Lumpur at the weekend, she notably lauded the meeting with her Malaysian counterpart as “the first since...

International Hydro-diplomacy: Building and Strengthening Regional Institutions for Water Conflict Prevention (Farwa Aamerk, Nilanjan Ghosh, Dipak Gyawali, Tug˘ba Evrim Maden, Hamza Shareef Hasan, Jenniver...

Water, a resource that is becoming increasingly scarce, is critical in sustaining human life. The last century has witnessed a multifold increase in global...

EU’s hydro-diplomacy in a water-stressed world (Stimson Center)

Stimson Center’s Farwa Aamer sits down with Ambassador Tanja Miskova and Ms. Alina Belskaia to discuss how the KAS-Stimson pre-conference study highlights water security challenges...

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