Foreign Affairs

Washington: The $874.2 billion fiscal 2024 National Defence Authorisation Act, finalised in conference late December 6, would fully authorise the trilateral AUKUS agreement with Australia and Britain and codify into law a new nuclear...

Port Louis: The National Security Advisers of India, Mauritius and Sri Lanka, as well as delegates from the Seychelles and Bangladesh December 7 participated in the 6th NSA-level meeting of the Colombo Security Conclave...

Arlington: Even as efforts are on to formally acquire unmanned underwater vehicles from submarines, the US Navy continues experimenting with launching and recovering these vehicles. The Program Executive Office - Unmanned and Small Combatants is...

Washington: The US Army plans to start a new program in fiscal 2025 to develop and field a new high-altitude platform capable of deep sensing, according to Brig Gen Ed Barker, the service’s program...

Washington: Republican Senators Deb Fischer and Mitt Romney walked side by side as they hastily left the Biden administration’s classified briefing on a massive defence spending package that includes Ukraine and Israel aid, both...

Washington: With the US commercial maritime industry shrinking and the capability of shipyards constructing large, oceangoing military and commercial vessels declining from 30 to six, and their annual output from 60 to seven, according...

Washington: The US Marine Corps is conducting market research into small drone boats as part of a push to boost the service’s reconnaissance capabilities and prepare for conflict near shore. Marine Corps Systems Command...

Washington: The White House said that the US may establish a naval task force to escort commercial ships in the Red Sea, a day after three vessels were struck by missiles fired by Iranian-back...

Simi Valley (California): US Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo  stressed the need to tighten export controls, and even more importantly their enforcement, to prevent China from outpacing the US in emerging technologies like artificial...

Washington: The top defence officials from the United States, United Kingdom and Australia announced a raft of new initiatives associated with the AUKUS security pact’s second pillar, focused on trilateral maritime exercises and opportunities...

Tel Aviv: There are clear signs that the ongoing war between Israel and two Iranian proxies – Hamas in Gaza and the Hezbollah in Lebanon cannot be seen as a regional problem. Tehran considers...

Tel Aviv: Israel did not comment on the report in the Saudi media that the Israeli defence forces (IDF) performed the strike that caused a huge explosion at an arms depot in Yemen’s capital...

Milan: NATO is set to update its artificial intelligence strategy to include generative AI amid an increase in cyber-attacks on critical infrastructure and interference with government agencies. The standard, described by the organisation as...