Sourced : The Washington Post By Louisa Loveluck and Zakaria Zakaria A Turkish offensive against Kurdish fighters has bogged down in the mountains and mud of northern Syria as troops encounter an adversary well accustomed to the terrain. The Turkish…
Sourced : PROTOTHEMA Turkish Chief of General Staff General Hulusi Akar said the Turkish armed forces were capable of conducting military operations in both Syria and the Aegean Sea. In his statement, which is doing the rounds in Turkish media,…
Sourced: Jerusalem Post By Georgeb N. Tzogopoulos Greece and Israel are slowly but steadily enhancing their strategic cooperation. Defense ties have been strengthened as a result of regularly organized bilateral military exercises. Greece and Israel – with the participation of…
Sourced : The Diplomat By Franz-Stefan Gady The Russian Ministry of Defense (MOD) is expected to sign a contract for a pre-production batch of 12 Sukhoi Su-57 fighter jets, Russia’s first indigenously designed and built fifth-generation stealth fighter aircraft, Russian…
Sourced : Euronews By Cristian Gherasim For the first time in decades, the Black Sea will once again be patrolled by a Romanian navy submarine. The announcement was one of the first acts of Mihai Fifor, the incoming Minister of…
Sourced: France24 France on Wednesday announced plans to boost defence spending by more than 40 percent, bringing it into line with NATO targets after complaints from US President Donald Trump that Europe is not pulling its weight. European NATO members…
Sourced : War on the Rocks By David Brewster A race is underway between Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and Turkey to build naval and military bases right across the Horn of Africa. This threatens to change the…
The Dartmouth Centre for Sea Power and Strategy (DCSS) in collaboration with MARCOM organised a high level workshop on the 5th February, 2018 at Warren House in Kingston –upon-Thames. In an informal setting, among a select group of experts and…
Sourced: Australian Department of Defence; issued Jan 31, 2018 The multi-billion dollar Offshore Patrol Vessel project of the Australian Navy is on track after the signing of a contract with Lürssen. Australian Minister for Defence Industry, the Hon Christopher Pyne…
Sourced : Sputnik Despite Ankara assuring the Syrian government that its operation in Afrin aims to protect exclusively the Turkish security, Damascus has firmly condemned the military campaign as an assault on the country’s sovereignty. The co-chairman of Afrin Canton,…