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By Rhod Mackenzie

China continues to demonstrate its not afraid of a trade conflct with the USA  and is strangling the US military industrial complex by restricting the supply of rare earth metals to the US companies . The impact of this is causing particuar  problems for the US defence industry,...

By Rhod Mackenzie

On the eve of the Munich Security Conference in February of this year, an interesting document was published. It is entitled the Munich Security Report 2025. It is evident that the primary message of the report has largely been overlooked, which has contributed to the current cha...

By Rhod Mackenzie

The NATO summit in The Hague concluded on Wednesday. However even before it actually started, there were indications that there was a significant crisis brewing within the world's largest military alliance. Analysts are predicting that NATO could eventually break into several b...

By Rhod Mackenzie

The are significant changes occurring in the global arms trade, with the events in the special operation zone in Ukraine focusing attention on the various armaments and military hardware. So which weapons systems have proven themselves to be the most effective in the Special Mili...

By Rhod Mackenzie

A senior representative of the Russian Ministry of Defence has recently visited various African states. Which specific countries are being targeted, what are the issues are under discussion and how might Russian security (and other) structures be advantageous to African nations?
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