The Risk of Potential Illicit Arms Trafficking in Eastern Europe and Leak of Technological Secrets due to the West’s Arms Export to Ukraine. 

Since the Federation of Russia started its aggression against Ukraine, the West and EU Member States multiplied conventional arms exports toward the continent to reinforce the Ukrainian Army’s capacities on the ground to face what appears to be the second most equipped conventional army in the world (Small arms survey, 2021).

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Latvia Plans to Increase Its Armed Forces by Reintroducing Compulsory Military Service

On 5 July 2022, Latvian Defence Minister Artis Pabriks announced on Twitter that the Baltic country would undergo a programme to reintroduce compulsory military service. The decision came in response to the growing security concerns over possible Russian aggressive conduct. According to Pabkris’ post on the popular social platform, expanding the number of effective will serve as a deterrent against potential threats coming from its eastern neighbour. From 2007, the Latvian armed forces were composed of career soldiers and part-time serving volunteers, plus a limited number of NATO troops, but now, Pabriks stresses that the system has reached “its limit of power growth”.

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The Stalling of Vienna Talks on Iran Nuclear Deal

On 13 June 2022, Rheinmetall, Germany’s leading company in the security technology and mobility segment, unveiled its’ latest main battle tank at the EUROSATORY international defence material exhibition in Paris. The new tank, which bears the name “Panther”, constitutes a product elaborated entirely by Rheinmetall and is introducing a new era in the field of land defence systems by posing new high standards in lethality, mobility, and survivability whilst being characterised as a game-changer for the battlefields of the future (Sprenger, Rheinmetall pitches Panther battle tank as heir to the Leopard, 2022).

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Rheinmetall Introduces New Main Battle Tank

On 13 June 2022, Rheinmetall, Germany’s leading company in the security technology and mobility segment, unveiled its’ latest main battle tank at the EUROSATORY international defence material exhibition in Paris. The new tank, which bears the name “Panther”, constitutes a product elaborated entirely by Rheinmetall and is introducing a new era in the field of land defence systems by posing new high standards in lethality, mobility, and survivability whilst being characterised as a game-changer for the battlefields of the future (Sprenger, Rheinmetall pitches Panther battle tank as heir to the Leopard, 2022).

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These 7 Technologies that will Revolutionize the Battlefield by 2040

In this article, we will present the seven technologies under development, which are at different stages of technological maturation, but which all have the potential to profoundly transform the battlefield by 2040, to the point of creating new forms of war or confrontation hitherto unknown, or even to render obsolete certain technologies which today represent a strategic pivot of the organisation of La Défense: directed energy weapons, quantum computers, hypersonic weapons, intelligence artificial intelligence, rail guns, robotics and the controversial neutrino detectors.

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