Under its post-war constitution, Japan is not allowed a navy, army or air force, only Self Defence Forces. Yet, today, the country has one of the largest, most sophisticated fleets in the world with 47 destroyers and nine…
Algeria's plans to fence off the Sahara, Poland's new arms contract and other military news.
Chine beefs up its air force again, and India builds a strike force to ready itself for Himalayan border disputes.
Tuesday 28 August
During the Second World War, my aunt was in the Waaf: the Women’s Auxillary Air Force.
Tuesday 30 November
The US’s stealthy new fighter plane, the F-35 Lightning II, was designed to electrify the defence world and put every US-friendly air force beyond their enemies’ reach for decades to come.
Every two years, the Singapore Air Show draws air force commanders from around the world keen to check out the latest hardware. But as weaponry technology moves ever faster, what to order
Distrito Federal, the thriving capital, couldn't be more different from the Mexico regularly appearing on the evening news abroad. The city of 21 million remains largely free of the violence that has engulfed too many other…
The continuing fight against piracy in the Horn of Africa, led by three international military coalitions, Poland's plans to modernise its Air Force, and the consequences of Japan's decision to relax its strict defence…
Wednesday 3 February
The Singapore Air Show, which runs until Sunday, is Asia’s biggest and most prestigious aerospace event.
Sunday 14 March
Taiwan remains 90 miles off the Chinese coast, but politically the island might just have shifted in the mainland’s direction.
Friday 13 November
A top-secret military base in the mountains where Chinese technicians are building laser beams designed to render western satellites ineffective.
Tuesday 16 March
When a French photojournalist captured striking images of western soldiers emerging from a Kabul firefight earlier this year, New Zealand would have been one of the last places he might have expected his pictures to make…
Monday 3 September
Recruiting a special forces soldier is a complex, somewhat counterintuitive task.
Sunday 15 August
China is famously hungry for resources and knowledge of all kinds – but military high technology whets the country’s billion-man appetite more than anything else.
Tuesday 24 November
When China was penniless and politically unfashionable just a few decades ago, it found friends and allies – besides a few Leftist pariahs and revolutionary oddballs – very hard to come by.
Wednesday 22 August
The celebratory gunfire and Allahu Akhbars that accompanied the rebel advance into Tripoli on Sunday all but drowned out a subtler undertone to the long-awaited breakthrough: the sighs of relief at Nato headquarters.
Thursday 29 October
There may be good reasons to condemn Israel for its incursion into Gaza last December: some 1,400 Palestinians were killed as Israel got tough on Hamas a month before parliamentary elections.
Monday 19 November
Last week signs emerged that America’s much-loved democracy might be beginning to turn on itself.
Saturday 27 March
Increasing numbers of Chileans are starting to wonder if the deadly earthquake that struck a month ago was not natural but man-made.
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