Jane's Defence Weekly

Analysis

NATO can no longer ignore budget crisis
For the first time in its 60-year history NATO is facing a serious deficit in its common-funded infrastructure budget. While defence ministers sidestepped the ...
29-Oct-2009

Nigerian stability is still a long way off
The success of Nigeria's recent amnesty programme offers the country its best hope for resolving the drawn-out crisis in the Niger Delta as well ...
29-Oct-2009

US industry and the offset paradox
The attitude of the US government towards the imposition of offsets (the practice of compulsory inward investment placed on foreign defence contractors) in the ...
22-Oct-2009

Protection of satellites is the new race in space
Since the first anti-satellite (ASAT) weapon system was tested by the US in 1959, development has continued, prompting some of the concerns about the ...
21-Oct-2009

*Italy steps up role in Afghanistan
The end of 2009 will see a considerable re-organisation of the Italian forces deployment in Afghanistan, which expanded from 2,795 to 3,200 personnel during ...
21-Oct-2009

Fall-out from Georgian conflict rumbles on
The EU's Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Conflict in Georgia (IIFFMCG) on 30 September released its long-awaited report on the causes of the ...
21-Oct-2009

*Opinion: Missile defence as a common cause for all
The decision by US President Barack Obama to roll back plans for installing a radar in the Czech Republic and deploying interceptor missiles in ...
15-Oct-2009

*M&A activity reached new low in third quarter
Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity in the defence domain remained heavily subdued in the third quarter of 2009, suggesting that hopes of an upturn ...
15-Oct-2009

India keeps shooting itself in the foot
The long-delayed modernisation of the Indian military remains hindered by persistent bureaucratic vacillation on the part of the services and the Ministry of Defence ...
14-Oct-2009

Non-payers will see only partial benefits of AGS
Now that a sub-group of NATO's 28 allies has finally decided - after two decades of political and budgetary setbacks - to buy an ...
13-Oct-2009

Financial downturn puts A400M under scrutiny
As political pressure mounts for cuts to UK public spending, some of the Ministry of Defence's (MoD) most high-profile programmes appear to have been ...
05-Oct-2009

Helmand counts cost of living on the front line
There are now around 20,000 International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) personnel in Afghanistan's Helmand province, which has been the focus of two recent major ...
05-Oct-2009

*Mixed successes for Saudi and UAE offsets
Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) - the largest military markets within the Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC) - face comparable social and ...
01-Oct-2009

*Will Moscow's tie-ups with Caracas endure?
Venezuela is reported to have secured a USD2.2 billion credit facility from Moscow to purchase Russian defence materiel with a view to creating a ...
22-Sep-2009

Bundeswehr's future hangs in the balance
Germany is holding a federal election on 27 September that will determine the composition of the German parliament, the Bundestag, over the next four ...
15-Sep-2009

EU shakes up Europe's defence market laws
The 27 EU nations now have just under two years to transpose a newly finalised EU directive designed to liberalise military procurements between them. ...
10-Sep-2009

*Opinion: Pakistan is the key to rescuing Afghanistan
Eight years after the removal of the Taliban regime from Afghanistan, signs of Western fatigue over the Central Asian country are increasingly evident. Public...
10-Sep-2009

'Darfur war is over' claim has hollow ring
In early 2003 in the western Sudanese region of Darfur, rebels billing themselves as freedom fighters, with suspected links to a main Sudanese opposition ...
03-Sep-2009

Afghan ops put British Army in the spotlight
The past three months have been a testing time for the British Army. In July it suffered its worse month of casualties since the ...
01-Sep-2009

Analysis: Africa could pay heavy price for mob mentality
On 13 August the crews of two Egyptian fishing vessels held by pirates at Las Qoray in Puntland, Somalia, took things into their own ...
01-Sep-2009

Analysis: EU and industry REACH different conclusions
Resources spent on meeting the requirements of the EU's Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) legislation "distract from efforts to qualify and ...
01-Sep-2009

Africa could pay heavy price for mob mentality
On 13 August the crews of two Egyptian fishing vessels held by pirates at Las Qoray in Puntland, Somalia, took things into their own ...
25-Aug-2009

EU and industry REACH different conclusions
Resources spent on meeting the requirements of the EU's Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) legislation "distract from efforts to qualify and ...
25-Aug-2009

Bank pledges support for small defence firms
The relative strength of the defence sector amidst the wider economic downturn means that defence firms are better placed to attract funding from banks, ...
21-Aug-2009

One year on: Georgia, Russia still on edge
On 29 July, almost one year after the war with Russia, Georgian checkpoint personnel claimed that rocket propelled grenades (RPGs) had been fired into ...
12-Aug-2009

*Opinion: Time to stop 'sexing up' Arctic security issues
In recent years, the practice of talking up supposed military threats in the Arctic has become widespread. As a possible source of up to ...
12-Aug-2009

Opinion: AMISOM - how it could make a real difference
With just 4,300 under-resourced soldiers from Uganda and Burundi, the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) is the latest symbol of the failure of ...
07-Aug-2009

*Opinion: Finding an effective, practical solution to unexploded ordnance
Recent attempts to ban certain cluster munitions and reduce unexploded ordnance (UXO), though vigorously debated and well intentioned, have resulted in an international treaty ...
06-Aug-2009

*US homes in on Europe's mission-systems market
North American-owned companies are expected to double their share of the European airborne radar; radio-frequency electronic warfare (RFEW); and electro-optic infrared (EOIR) markets over ...
03-Aug-2009

*Southeast Asia shrugs off global downturn
A long list of strategic concerns, coupled with ageing military inventories and defence spending that is still rising despite the economic downturn, has made ...
29-Jul-2009

*Opinion: Honesty is now the only policy for our industry
The UK government is getting tougher on bribery. Recent reports of a ground-breaking plea bargain between the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) and the bridge ...
27-Jul-2009

*Opinion: Climate change can threaten defence plans
Observers may debate exactly when, where and how climate change and environmental developments will contribute to or drive forces of internal and regional instability, ...
24-Jul-2009

Used USAF F-16s provide cheap multirole option
Recently announced plans by the US Air Force (USAF) to retire older F-16 Fighting Falcon multirole fighter aircraft will prove advantageous for several lower-tier ...
21-Jul-2009

ISAF must focus on long-term objectives
As the first of 21,000 additional US troops began arriving in Afghanistan in April, the commander of the International Security Assistance Force's (ISAF's) Regional ...
17-Jul-2009

Africa's amnesties: the only rational solution?
The African Union has called for the International Criminal Court (ICC) indictment against Sudan's President Omar al Bashir to be deferred, arguing that it ...
15-Jul-2009

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