A Forecast International blog about the arms trade, geopolitics, defense and security, and military spending.
by Derek Bisaccio, International Military Markets Analyst, Forecast International. September was a tough month for Tajikistan, particularly for Tajik President Emomali Rahmon. Two terrorist attacks in one day by a …
Read Moreby Dan Darling, International Military Markets Analyst, Forecast International. The Irish Department of Defense announced its funding allocation for 2016 on October 13. The total earmark for FY16 will amount …
Read Moreby Daniel Darling, Military Markets Analyst, Forecast International. The Indian Defense Ministry has awarded the partnership of local engineering prime Larsen & Toubro (L&T) and South Korea’s Samsung Techwin with …
Read Moreby Dan Darling, International Military Markets Analyst, Forecast International. The Polish government has adopted a 2016 budgetary outline that would see the country’s year-on-year nominal defense budget rise by PLN2.876 …
Read Moreby Dan Darling, International Military Markets Analyst, Forecast International. The Indian government is exploring its options as it seeks to move forward on the Indian Navy’s Project 75I program involving a new …
Read Moreby Derek Bisaccio, Military Markets Analyst, Forecast International. Throughout the month of September, Venezuela saw a flare-up in hostility with two of its neighbors, Colombia and Guyana, over separate issues. …
Read MoreBy Shaun McDougall, Military Markets Analyst, Forecast International. The Canadian Department of National Defence has responded to media claims that the future Canadian Surface Combatant (CSC) program is in trouble, …
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by Dan Darling, International Military Markets Analyst, Forecast International. Following final approval on September 19 of landscape-altering security legislation by the upper house of Japan’s parliament, the National Diet, the …
Read Moreby Dan Darling, International Military Markets Analyst, Forecast International. A long-awaited contract for the Turkish Long-Range Air and Missile Defense System (T-LORAMIDS) now appears further away than ever. For a …
Read Moreby Dan Darling, International Military Markets Analyst, Forecast International. The Latvian government reached an agreement in principle on August 25 regarding fiscal planning for the 2016 state budget. Under the …
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