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Army Special Forces want to integrate more with other military units on info warfare (Defense News)

Mark Pomerleau  U.S. Army Special Forces have worked to develop top tier information warfare capabilities and want to mix their skills more often with conventional military...

Belarus/Russia – Lukashenka Says No to Russian Military Base and Deeper Integration With Russia (The Jamestown Foundation)

Vladimir Socor In his marathon question-and-answer session on August 9, Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka again ruled out the integration of Belarus with Russia at the...

Afghanistan/North Caucasus – Taliban Triumph in Afghanistan Echoes in Russia’s North Caucasus (The Jamestown Foundation)

Paul Globe The Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan threatens to destabilize the North Caucasus for three interrelated reasons. First, the Taliban victory is certain to inspire...

Russia – Russia Warns Ukraine and Other Neighbors to Draw Lessons From Fall of Kabul (The Jamestown Foundation)

Pavel E. Felgenhauer The sudden collapse of the Afghan National Army and security forces, the fall of Kabul without a fight, President Ashraf Ghani fleeing...

Japan needs a better military drone strategy (East Asia Forum)

Tsuyoshi Minami, Shanghai Normal University Japan has been advancing its military modernisation program for several years. The driving motivation appears to be China, which aims to...

Big barriers on FDI in Indian defence (East Asia Forum)

Rahul Nath Choudhury, ICWA In 2020, India changed its foreign direct investment (FDI) regulations to allow investments of up to 74 per cent in the defence manufacturing...

Kenya – Is the BBI ruling a sign of judicial independence in Kenya? (Brookings)

John Mukum Mbaku On May 23, 2021, a special five-judge bench sitting at the High Court of Kenya at Nairobi declared unanimously that the Constitution...

Libya – Libya’s peace process: What’s at stake for the Maghreb, 10 years after Gadhafi’s overthrow (Brookings)

Yasmina Abouzzohour Adecade after the overthrow of longtime dictator Moammar Gadhafi, Libya is set to hold elections this December to produce a unified government. As...

Biodiversity/Indigenous People/Local Communities – Why traditional knowledge and Indigenous Peoples’ rights must be integrated across the new global biodiversity targets (IIED)

Krystyna Swiderska Most of the earth’s biodiversity is located on the territories of the world’s half-billion Indigenous Peoples, who manage about a quarter of the...

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