SINGAPORE. Over three days at Singapore’s Shangri-La Hotel, defense ministers, military chiefs, intelligence officials, diplomats, analysts, and industry leaders gathered for what remains Asia’s most influential security forum: the 23rd...

Modern military power depends on resources that rarely appear in defense headlines. Fighter aircraft, missiles, submarines, satellites, drones, radar systems, batteries, night-vision devices, and electronic warfare platforms all rely on...

The war in Ukraine has fundamentally changed how military planners, governments, and defense industries view modern warfare. Before 2022, many Western nations assumed that future conflicts would be relatively short,...

Modern military power is no longer defined only by aircraft, warships, tanks, missiles, or satellites. It is increasingly defined by the industrial and logistical systems that make those capabilities available,...

The hypersonic weapons race has become one of the defining indicators of military modernization in the twenty-first century. For the United States and Russia, hypersonic missiles are not merely advanced...

The hypersonic weapons race between the United States and China has become one of the most important military-technology competitions of the 2020s. Hypersonic missiles, generally defined as weapons capable of...

Southeast Asia is entering a new phase of defense modernization. For decades, many countries in the region approached military procurement cautiously, balancing limited budgets, domestic priorities, and the desire to...

The space domain is undergoing a profound transformation. What was once considered a largely peaceful environment for scientific exploration and commercial communications has evolved into a strategically contested arena where...

Modern warfare is often described as network-centric, data-driven, and technologically sophisticated. Behind these concepts lies an often-overlooked reality: the overwhelming dependence of modern military forces on space-based infrastructure. Satellites provide...

The war in Ukraine has fundamentally reshaped military thinking about space-based communications. For decades, military planners viewed satellite communications as a supporting capability. Today, they are increasingly recognized as a...