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Home › North America › Canadian Defence News › Türkiye Confirms It Will Join Canada-Led Defence, Security and Resilience Bank Canadian Defence News Türkiye has told Canada it will join the Canada-led Defence, Security and Resilience Bank (DSRB) as a founding member, weeks after the NATO summit in Ankara. Türkiye has informed Canada that it will join the new Defence, Security and Resilience Bank (DSRB) as a founding member, a Turkish official told Reuters on 13 July 2026 – reversing a position announced days earlier to withhold its commitment. The official said Ankara had notified Ottawa of its participation without…

As China’s birth rate plunges to record lows, the country’s leaders have responded by offering childcare subsidies, expanded maternity leave, free preschool, and cash incentives for young families. The government is aware of the problem, but its proffered solutions assume that family planning is primarily shaped by the immediate costs of raising children.  For many Chinese families, particularly those from rural areas, a more pressing financial concern lies at the opposite end of the life cycle.  The problem of elder poverty deserves more attention in discussing China’s demographic woes. Fertility policy typically focuses on reducing the cost of childrearing. Yet…

Bruce B. Stubbs, CIMSEC For the congressional committees charged with raising and maintaining a Navy, it is among the most important pieces of evidence they receive, because it is the Navy’s… Source link

Home › Turkey › Turkish Defence News › Aselsan Signs €1.47 Billion Contract to Expand Türkiye’s Steel Dome Air Defence Production Turkish Defence News Türkiye’s Aselsan signed a €1.47 billion contract with the SSB to expand serial production for the Steel Dome (Çelik Kubbe) air defence architecture. Türkiye’s Aselsan has signed a contract worth approximately €1.47 billion (about $1.68 billion) with the Presidency of Defence Industries (SSB) to expand serial production of air defence systems, the company announced in a disclosure to the Public Disclosure Platform on 10 July 2026. Aselsan said the agreement is an addition to ongoing serial-production…

The old saying goes that an enemy of an enemy is a friend. This proverb seems to match the growing closeness between Taliban-ruled Afghanistan and India, which, for strategic reasons, remained anti-Taliban during the group’s rule in Afghanistan between 1996 and 2001 and supported the Afghan Republic governments between 2001 and 2021.  Meanwhile, Pakistan was considered the biggest ally and supporter of the Taliban from 1996 until the group’s takeover of Kabul in August 2021. But thereafter, the former allies have been unable to see eye to eye. The core issue is the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), which, according to Pakistan,…

WarZone A scathing new Pentagon Inspector General report found problems at the plant delayed the Army’s 100,000 round-per-month goal. Source link

France’s legal reform in 1808 laid down the cornerstone of modern prosecution. It effected separation of powers for its criminal justice system, compartmentalizing investigation, prosecution, and trial to be handled by different parties. Putting any of the two elements within one hand had almost inevitably led to judicial prejudice and abuse of power. Most of Europe soon followed the French model. And today, developed liberal democracies hew to this legal sanctity and practice. South Korea, however, is an exception. Its prosecution is highly centralized with a monopoly on investigation and prosecution – a model more commonly found in autocracies. The…

Daniel McCarthy, The Spectator The Republican aviary still has many other hawks. But can any take Graham’s place? Source link

LONDON—The U.S. Space Force’s soon-to-be retired top officer urged support for his service’s programs, the same day as House lawmakers said they would approve only a fraction of the funds the Trump administration requested for major space effortsSpace Force Gen. Chance Saltzman, the chief of space operations, told international military leaders  at the Global Air and Space Chiefs’ Conference here on Tuesday that space is, undoubtedly, a warfighting domain. Invoking American poet Robert Frost, he said, “We must frame our choices around how to have military advantage, and for better or worse, the path we choose will make all the…

The Diplomat author Mercy Kuo regularly engages subject-matter experts, policy practitioners, and strategic thinkers across the globe for their diverse insights into U.S. Asia policy.  This conversation with Dr. Orlando J. Pérez, professor of political science at the University of North Texas at Dallas, is the 517th in “The Trans-Pacific View Insight Series.” Examine the scope of China’s involvement in Cuba.  China’s involvement in Cuba has expanded fastest in energy. Over the past year Cuba connected 49 Chinese-built solar parks to its grid, pushing solar from under 6 percent of generation to more than 20 percent. Beijing has committed to 92 parks by…