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Key Points and Summary – Europe’s flagship next-generation fighter effort, FCAS, just missed another decision deadline—with no verdict from Berlin or Paris and no...
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Key Points and Summary – Europe’s flagship next-generation fighter effort, FCAS, just missed another decision deadline—with no verdict from Berlin or Paris and no...
Synopsis: Otto von Bismarck’s warning in 1 quote—“People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election”—is a...
Synopsis: Otto von Bismarck is remembered as the architect of modern Germany—and as a hard-eyed realist who understood war’s human cost. -Born into the...
Synopsis: France’s National Assembly has revived the long-running Rafale vs. Eurofighter cost debate, arguing Eurofighter’s per-unit and lifecycle costs are far higher—and pointing to...
Key Points and Summary – Germany’s 2022 Zeitenwende speech has turned into a concrete military reboot: 100 billion euros for rearmament, a lasting pledge...
Key Points and Summary – Spain’s S-80 submarine program almost sank under its own weight—literally. -A major design miscalculation left the first boat about...
Key Points and Summary – Europe’s Future Combat Air System faces a make-or-break decision as Germany, France, and Spain near an end-of-2025 deadline to...
Key Points and Summary – Dassault Aviation CEO Eric Trappier has reignited doubts about the Future Combat Air System, warning that FCAS may not...
Key Points and Summary – U.S. Air Force F-16 pilots near Germany’s Spangdahlem Air Base recently reported multiple blue-laser illuminations on approach, triggering a...
Key Points and Summary – Germany’s so-called “pocket battleships” — Deutschland, Admiral Scheer, and Admiral Graf Spee — were Hitler’s workaround to interwar naval...