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The Covid After-Effects and the Looming Skills Shortage (Yaroslav Lissovolik, Valdai Discussion Club)

The shock of the pandemic is changing the ways in which we think about the world and in which we analyze the future trajectories...

Army Gets Strategic About Going Digital (Brandi Vincent, Defense One)

The newly crafted Army Digital Transformation Strategy, or ADTS, marks a key component of the branch’s overarching modernization efforts that is meant to reform...

Air Force research lab signs agreement with ‘gas-stations-in-space’ company (Nathan Strout, Defense News)

The Air Force Research Laboratory signed a research agreement with a company pioneering orbital refueling stations for spacecraft, signaling the military’s interest in using...

KC-46 gets new refueling approvals for TRANSCOM missions (Stephen Losey, Defense News)

The KC-46 Pegasus is now able to refuel the Air Force’s fourth-generation fighter jets during missions for U.S. Transportation Command, expanding the service’s air...

Turkish-Qatari venture BMC facing liquidity challenges (Burak Ege Bekdil, Defense News)

Leading armored vehicles maker BMC, a Turkish-Qatari venture, is going through liquidity snags after a recent change in ownership, Defense News has learned. The company,...

Turkey agrees to import more gas from Azerbaijan (Al Monitor)

Turkey and Azerbaijan signed a new gas deal Friday. Azerbaijan will supply Turkey with 11 billion cubic meters of natural gas through the end of...

Iran dismisses Azerbaijan’s claims of drug route to Europe (Al Monitor)

Iran and Azerbaijan are in a war of words again, this time over drug smuggling. On Friday, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev claimed that the country...

US to give $67 million to Lebanon’s military as violence erupts in Beirut (Al Monitor)

The Biden administration is sending Lebanon’s military an additional $67 million in a bid to keep the cash-strapped country’s largest functioning security institution from...

Food poisoning spikes in Lebanon amid fuel crisis (AJ Naddaff, Al Monitor)

Cases of food poisoning have been on the rise since the summer amidst Lebanon’s increased power outages. The true scale of the numbers has not...

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