Is the Industrial Base on a Wartime Footing? A Progress Report | All About The Base
This episode of All About the Base, a video series analyzing critical industrial base topics, assesses how far the United States has come in placing the industrial base on a wartime footing since t...
Building at Scale: Reforming the Defense Industrial Base | 2026 Global Security Forum
How can the United States rebuild its industrial capacity—from shipyards and semiconductors to munitions and the workforce—to translate innovation into sustained warfighting capability?
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Is India ready for 5th Generation Fighters?
The real power of 5th Gen isn't just in design—it's in networking and situational awareness.
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Russia's Illicit Arms Market and Implications for Europe
Russia's illegal gun market is expanding — and the worst may still be ahead. As the war in Ukraine grinds on, weapons prices in Russia have dropped by up to 75%, violent armed crime is spreading ac...
Is India's AMCA fighter jet finally taking shape?
The DRDO has issued a request for proposal to three shortlisted vendors for the design phase of the AMCA.
Tata Advanced Systems leads one bid, wh...
Artificial intelligence is becoming increasingly central to warfighting. And the firms that build it are critical partners to militaries around the world. Once such company is Britain’s Faculty AI,...
U.S. Arms Sales to Taiwan
CSIS’s Edgard Kagan discusses President Trump’s comment that U.S. arms sales to Taiwan will be influenced by China’s behavior.
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India needs a fifth generation fighter while the AMCA is in development. The only viable option is the Russian Su-57, given India's existing ecosystem with Russian fighters. The complexity of integ...
In this episode of The Sound of Economics, host Rebecca Christie talks about the defence industry with Bruegel’s Guntram Wolff and journalist Sharon Weinberger, author of the books Imaginary Weapon...
Strengthening Surge Capacity: Table-Top Exercise Focused on Protracted Conflict | All About the Base
This episode of All About the Base, a video series analyzing critical industrial base topics, assesses the industrial capacity America and its allies need to succeed in a prolonged conflict scenari...
The Ukrainian Defense Industry and Europe’s Untapped Arsenal
Max and Maria welcome back Elina Ribakova to discuss her latest piece in Foreign Affairs, exploring the Ukrainian defense industry and its potential cap...
'You cannot win a war with an economy that is based on Google selling adverts'
David Lubin, Michael Klein Senior Research Fellow in Chatham House's Global Economy and Finance Programme on the US-C...
“In 2024, Chinese factories installed roughly 300,000 new industrial robots. American factories installed 30,000. Today, there are now more than 2 million industrial robots working in Chinese facto...
“How do you deal with a competitor that out-scales you in manufacturing? The only way is to add up American manufacturing with allied manufacturing—collectively, that block completely out-scales Ch...
How does Israel balance arms imports and exports during ongoing conflicts? SIPRI Researcher Zain Hussain explains tha...
What is the "Right to Repair?" | All About the Base
This episode of All About the Base, a video series analyzing critical industrial base topics, analyzes the debate around the "Right to Repair" or whether the government should own and be able to di...
How are Gulf states shaping arms imports in the Middle East? SIPRI Researcher Zain Hussain explains that Gulf Arab states...
How is China shaping arms imports in Asia and Oceania? Siemon Wezeman, Senior Researcher in the SIPRI Arms Transfe...
Why does the United States remain the world’s leading arms supplier? Pieter Wezeman, Senior Researcher in the SIPRI Arms Transfers Programme, expla...
Why are global arms transfers rising despite ongoing conflicts elsewhere? Dr Mathew George, Director of the ...