


France’s move to enter exclusive negotiations with MBDA and Safran for a successor to its long-range rocket system signals that Europe’s deep-strike debate is moving from capability papers into procurement decisions.

A senior NATO commander's warning that Western homelands can no longer be treated as safe rear areas points to a hard lesson from Ukraine: logistics, factories, ports, bases and civilian infrastructure are now part of the battlefield.

The reported strike on the Crimea Titan plant in Armyansk matters less as a symbolic Crimea attack than as part of Ukraine's expanding campaign against industrial inputs behind Russia's war machine.

Ukraine's wartime defence industry is forcing Europe to ask whether rearmament should be measured only by output, or also by whether factories can survive missile and drone attack.

Rheinmetall's warning over a possible French exit from MGCS points to a wider problem: Europe's flagship defence projects are being weakened by industrial rivalry, budget pressure and national control disputes.

John Healey’s resignation has turned Britain’s Defence Investment Plan from a budget timetable into a test of NATO readiness, industrial capacity and homeland defence.

Turkey’s warning over the France-Cyprus defence agreement has moved the security of the island into a wider confrontation involving Ankara, Paris, Nicosia, Athens, Israel, Iran and the United States. President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said Turkey would give a “very clear”…

Sofia’s decision to halt arms supplies to Kyiv is not simply a national policy adjustment. It raises questions about EU cohesion, NATO reliability, defence-industrial planning, and the durability of long-term security commitments in wartime. Bulgaria’s announcement that it will stop…

Only 11 per cent of Europeans across 15 countries now view the United States as an ally, according to a new European Council on Foreign Relations survey that points to a sharp deterioration in public confidence in the American security…

Bulgaria will not send further weapons to Ukraine, Defence Minister Dimitar Stoyanov said on Tuesday, marking a shift in Sofia’s position even as the country prepares to increase defence spending sharply under NATO pressure. Stoyanov told reporters in Sofia that…