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Record Growth for Nordic Defence Industry Leaders – Kongsberg, Patria and Saab in 2025

Sweden’s Saab AB, Norway’s Kongsberg Gruppen and Finland’s Patria each delivered outstanding results in 2025, reflecting a historic surge in European defence demand. All three reported double-digit revenue growth and record order backlogs. Together, they captured numerous major contracts and invested heavily to expand capacity. All three Nordic firms are clear beneficiaries of the unprecedented

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Hormuz Tensions Renew Focus on Naval Fuel Security

Analysis

The renewed threat of disruption to the Strait of Hormuz is again reminding defence planners of the vulnerability of global energy logistics in major conflicts. Naval modernisation is increasingly tied not only to weapons and sensors but also to energy resilience. Modern fleets are studying how warships could operate with a wider range of fuels

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After Khamenei: Escalation Scenarios and the New Missile-Centric Gulf

Analysis, News

The killing of Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, in a joint US–Israeli strike has pushed the region out of the long shadow war and into open, state-to-state coercion. Tehran’s response, ballistic missiles, drones, and sustained pressure against Israel and US-linked targets across the Gulf, signals a new baseline. Now, it is about regime survival, alliance

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The Algorithmic Battlespace: How AI Is Rewriting the Rules of Influence

Analysis, Science

As leaders and security officials gathered in Munich, the most consequential shift in the information war was about the systems that decide what any of us sees in the first place. The latest analysis from NATO’s Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence argues that power is draining from narratives and pooling instead in algorithms, recommendation engines

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A Danish coalition service member holds up a Danish flag to identify families during an evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport, Kabul, Afghanistan.

Afghanistan After NATO: China’s Mineral Grab

Analysis, Diplomacy, Minerals

When the last US troops left Afghanistan in August 2021, Washington said it was ending a war, not abandoning a country. In practice, it did both. And in doing so, tilted the region toward Chinese influence. Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Finland had all spent two decades backing the NATO-led operation in Afghanistan, politically, militarily, and

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European Defence Stocks Surge on Greenland Rift and Rising Budgets

Analysis, Business

Investors in Europe’s defence industry are unintended winners from the Greenland drama, beyond Moscow and Beijing. Donald Trump’s threats towards Denmark have accelerated a trend already underway, as rising military budgets and doubts about the durability of US security guarantees push European arms makers to record valuations. Markets are treating rearmament less as a political

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Global Crisis Hotspots in 2026: Escalations from Venezuela to Taiwan

Analysis, Crises, NDR Digest

Major powers are behaving as if enforcement is optional. The US operation in Venezuela is the most dramatic illustration so far this year. China’s Taiwan drills are the most consequential rehearsal. Russia’s Ukraine campaign is the costliest grind. Together, they create a world where risk is not a forecast. Risk is a policy choice. Analysts

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Western Intelligence Goes on the Offensive

Analysis, Espionage

In response to intensified Russian and Chinese hybrid warfare, Western governments have started to expand the remit of their intelligence agencies. France and the UK have tightened their sabotage legislation, and Finland aims to give more powers to its intelligence service. In Germany, the Merz government is drafting a new BND Act to let the

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Airborne Early Warning in the Arctic

Analysis, Technology

The High North is now central to deterrence and surveillance. Russia has shifted focus northwards since Finland and Sweden joined NATO, extending NATO’s border with Russia by 1,340 km. Climate change is opening Arctic sea routes, prompting rivals to deploy advanced long-range weapons and drawing growing interest from China. New airborne early-warning technology offers triple

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Breaking with the Russian Gauge – Baltic States Set to Remove Old Rails to the East

Analysis

The presidents of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia have agreed in principle that if one Baltic state removes its railway connections to Russia and Belarus, the others will follow suit in unison. Meeting in Riga on December 4, 2025, the three leaders discussed dismantling the old 1,520 mm “Russian gauge” tracks that cross their eastern borders. Unprecedented

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