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Buoyed by its success in the call for tenders for the Parade market of France's DGA (Direction Générale de l'Armement) as revealed

French President Emmanuel Macron's recent openness to discussing greater autonomy for Corsica has certainly set tongues wagging at 2 bis,

Russia's offensives in Ukraine have led inevitably to a closing of ranks around Russian president Vladimir Putin. The Russian president,

South Korea is now the new target of France's and the UK's Indo-Pacific campaigns. After trying to impose their vision

Intelligence Online understands that after 11 months of planning, Iran's intelligence has launched its brand new Nuclear Service, which is

Washington - ICSID establishes framework for litigation funding.It was the big subject at Paris Arbitration Week, which brought lawyers, litigation

Here’s what remains of Antonov Airport, home of the An-225 Mriya. On Mar. 31, 2022, following the statements regarding a reduction in activity around Kyiv, and reporting indicating the withdrawal of some units from these [...]

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A new clip from the cockpit again shows Russian Aerospace Forces attack helicopters turned into airborne MRLS and using unguided rockets, in a quite indiscriminate way. Few weeks ago we reported about a video coming [...]

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The two new Eurofighters for the Kuwait Air Force have just been delivered. Sporting the provisional serials M.T. 55269 and 55270, the third and fourth Eurofighter Typhoons for the Al-Quwwat al-Jawwiyya al-Kuwaytiyya (Kuwait Air Force [...]

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By renewing its contract with Insitu on 11 March for Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) services carried by drones, the

The US Treasury Department's assurance, added to the executive order issued by the White House on 8 March stating that

President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol has not yet taken up residence in the Blue House, but he has already urged the National

Well away from the Campus Cyber in Paris, the technical department of France's international intelligence service, the DGSI, is to

Even as the United Kingdom's attention is caught up in the conflict in Ukraine, China continues to build its soft

Despite his connections with Damascus's business community (see our Insiders special report, 16/09/20), the European Union took the unusual step of

On 13 March, the US facial recognition firm Clearview announced in Reuters that the Ukrainian defence ministry had asked for its assistance, in a move that underscores a shift in Ukraine towards US technologies. Clearview's founder and director, Hoan Ton-That,

There is a general perception in Western countries that the role of values as a foreign policy driver is currently on the decline. This study in the series ‘global trends in external policies’ seeks to contribute to the debate by investigating what is meant by ‘values’, whether their importance is on the wane and, if so, how this manifests itself, and how the European Union (EU) can respond to these trends. The broad concept of values has therefore been split into five categories. Socio-cultural values are implicit drivers of foreign policy. In the case of the EU, these are characterised by diversity. ‘Political values’ is used as a term to describe the fundamental principles of political and public action, defining the relationship between the state and its citizens. For the EU, these are often referred to as the triad of human rights, democracy and the rule of law. Economic values characterise the nature of the prevailing economic system in a country. The EU advocates a social market economy. The term ‘Earth values’ refers to the inclusion of environmental considerations in external policies. The EU has become a leader in promoting sustainability. Resulting from the preceding four are ‘international order values’, which characterise the overall international outlook of actors. The EU’s international order value is ‘principled pragmatism’. This study compares the EU’s values with those of four reference countries: the US, Turkey, Russia and China. The US in the West comes closest to many of the EU’s values, but does not overlap completely. Turkey and Russia are in the EU’s Eastern neighbourhood and increasingly disagree with the EU on values. Chinese values overlap least with the EU’s values. The study confirms a decline in the influence of the political values preferred by the EU. This decline appears to correspond to a clear West-East spectrum. However, the study also notes an opposite trend of increasing influence of Earth values. For these, a Eurocentric spectrum appears more adequate. For economic values, the definition of trends depends on benchmarks and methodology. The international order notion of ‘principled pragmatism’ has been extended to ‘EU strategic autonomy’. Values are often considered as part of EU strategic autonomy and some policies, such as EU accession or trade policy, incorporate them. A values-based approach to external policies should differentiate according to the partner country and the value category concerned. Whereas cooperation on political values does not appear to be fruitful with certain countries, continued efforts on economic or Earth values may still be possible. The study explores what such a differentiated approach could mean for the four reference countries in the near future. Such an approach should also take into account the differing perceptions of partner countries. Although positive avenues of cooperation on, for example, Earth values are still possible, geopolitical tensions, partly rooted in differing values, are overshadowing this path.
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The U.S. Air Force is planning to retire the 33 oldest, non-combat-capable F-22s to optimize resources The U.S. Air Force is seeking approval from the Congress to retire the oldest Tyndall Air Force Base’s F-22 [...]

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U.S. repositions 200 Marines from Norway to Lithuania and moves Hornets to Eastern Europe. The build up on NATO’s Eastern Flank continues. Yesterday we reported about the arrival at Spangdahlem Air Base, Germany, of an [...]

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