Our new military strategy column examines how the US might unwittingly encourage China to bolster its nuclear arsenal. Plus, what the armies of Europe are spending their money on, and the EDA members who have started their…
The defence industry is intertwined with politics and nationhood, and Ivor Ichikowitz is a man at the heart of all three in Africa. But don’t call him an arms dealer – he only has the best intentions for the continent, he…
Tuesday 18 December
With Christmas just a week away and 2012 rapidly grinding to a halt, it seems a fair time to start thinking of resolutions. And with the US having just witnessed the horrors of the Newtown massacre, an event so gruesome and…
Germany’s armed forces are experiencing an era of change. Just as they are becoming more active on the world military stage, they’re also facing cuts and restructuring. What type of military emerges in the end is still…
Some say they’re a useful force for good, others say they’re an ungovernable hindrance undermining the good work of government troops. Either way, private security firms are playing an important part in conflicts around the…
Monday 6 May
The atrocities in Syria might soon provoke the US into supplying arms to its rebel fighters but the same tactic in 1980s Afghanistan meant arms recipients soon turned against the hand that feeds.
Monocle reports from the IDEX arms fair in Abu Dhabi, and why the US should support struggling nations against insurgents.
We talk to our defence correspondent Trefor Moss about arms in North Africa and discover the latest in Kenya following last week’s grenade attacks.
Thursday 24 February
Nuclear armed, highly motivated and a potentially destabilising force in Northeast Asia, the North Korean People’s Army, or KPA, is one of the most feared fighting forces on the planet.
An interview with the rear admiral in charge of an anti-piracy operation in the Horn of Africa, plus a round-up of the latest arms deals and military news around the world.
Friday 6 January
South African President Jacob Zuma still sings a song, Umshini Wami (My Machine Gun) from his time as a commander of the armed wing of the ANC at every public meeting.
Sunday 8 July
At some stage in the future there will be major political scandal about the West’s long-term funding and arming of a dictatorial regime that embezzles aid and oil money and kills its own people.
Algeria's plans to fence off the Sahara, Poland's new arms contract and other military news.
A look at how US arms sales have tripled, why Madrid is becoming a design capital, and the possible lifting of western Australia’s shark-hunting ban.
We analyse Kofi Annan’s Syria plan, discuss the anger in Sweden over arms deals, and learn about the World Clown Association Convention in San Diego.
Discussion of the EU arms embargo on Syria, we hear about the candidates in Paris’s mayoral election, and get the latest on the diamond heist in Belgium
Despite being targeted by a bomb attack in which she lost an arm and leg, political TV journalist May Chidiac, a staunch critic of Syria, remains defiant and is back presenting for the Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation.
Brazil overtakes UK as world’s sixth-largest economy, we ask could India’s Ghandi power dynasty be failing? And learn about Sweden arming the Middle East.
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