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Market Insights with Dan Darling

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How the Government Shutdown Impacts the Pentagon’s Budget

November 25, 2025November 24, 2025 - by Shaun McDougall and Richard Pettibone

  Today, we provide a brief overview of how the recent government shutdown impacted the Pentagon and its funding plans. Forecast International’s U.S. Defense Market analyst Shaun McDougall unpacks the …

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The Bottom of the Barrel: Russia and China’s Battle for the Lower-Tier Defense Export Market

November 18, 2025November 18, 2025 - by Daniel Darling

As Russia slogs along with its largely stalemated invasion of Ukraine, leaning on additional help in the form of drones and munitions from sources such as Iran and North Korea …

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Inside the FY2026 Defense Landscape: Who’s Winning and What’s Next

November 11, 2025November 12, 2025 - by Daniel Darling

Our latest video and white paper take a deep dive into the Top 100 U.S. defense contractors for FY2024 and the Top Ten Programs driving FY2026 spending. From record Pentagon …

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The EU’s Defense Readiness Roadmap: Ambition, Conflict, and the Path to 2030

November 4, 2025October 30, 2025 - by Daniel Darling

Leaders of the 27 European Union (EU) nations have coalesced around the Defense Readiness Roadmap 2030, a plan to achieve a state of military-security readiness and strategic autonomy by the …

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Defense / Market Insights with Dan Darling

The U.S. Armed Services Have a Vehicle Serviceability Problem on Their Hands 

October 28, 2025October 23, 2025 - by Daniel Darling

What good is a large inventory of tanks, armored vehicles and tactical trucks if they are rarely available or meet their mission requirements? That’s the question the U.S. Army – …

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AUSA Market Insights

October 21, 2025October 24, 2025 - by Daniel Darling

Click the video above for Forecast International Vice President Dan Darling’s discussion of the hot topics of AUSA 2025. Also, be sure to catch up on these AUSA articles from …

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Geopolitics / Market Insights with Dan Darling

Washington Goes Shopping: Investing Its Way Out of the Rare Earth Crisis

October 14, 2025October 8, 2025 - by Daniel Darling

The U.S. remains locked in a strategic race to secure and diversify its Rare Earth Element (REE) supply chain, a critical national security vulnerability exposed by global dependencies. These 17 …

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Understanding the Government Shutdown’s Impact on the Pentagon

October 7, 2025October 6, 2025 - by Shaun McDougall

This week on Market Insights we take a look at the impact of the government shutdown on the Pentagon through the lens of our North American market analyst and DoD …

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Trilateral FCAS Program at a Crossroads Amid Workshare Dispute

September 30, 2025September 24, 2025 - by Daniel Darling

Friction between French, German, and Spanish partners on the Future Combat Air System (FCAS) program is escalating. Germany and Spain are growing frustrated with France’s primary contractor, Dassault, which is …

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The New Era of Space Warfare

September 23, 2025September 24, 2025 - by Daniel Darling

Leaders of NATO space forces agree with the conclusion U.S. Space Force Chief of Space Operations Gen. B. Chance Salzman reached in his March “Space Warfighting” document: military planners can …

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Forecast International’s International Military Markets service provides a country-by-country examination of the military capabilities, equipment requirements, and inventories of over 120 nations. The individual country reports are structured to condense a vast range of information into concise segments. Governmental and political structures, political and economic trends, national and defense budgets, force structures, military planning requirements, recent and future procurements, the security environment, threat assessments, and military postures – all are detailed in these six services broken out by region (click each title for more details).

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