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A Brief History of 100 Years of the Turkish Defense Industry

The developmental phases of the Turkish defense industry can be outlined in the following phases: (i) Early Republican era (1923-1950), (ii) NATO accession (1952-1964), (iii) the Cyprus Peace Operation (1964-1978), (iv) embargoes on the Turkish defense industry (1980-1990, (v) change in domestic and foreign procurement models (1990-2002), and (vii) the final development phase of the Turkish war industry 2003-2023.

“Russia Can’t Win the Economic War, but the West Can Lose It.” BookTalk with Maximilian Hess

election next year: it will almost certainly be a re-run of the 2020 election with Trump and Biden, and if Trump is elected he has made clear that he will abandon the West strategy and sue for peace immediately by succumbing to Putin’s attempts to annex Ukrainian territory, and that will have a far larger impact on the fundamental alliance than carping about whether XY or Z European country hits it's 2% NATO defense spending target, and that would have much longer term impacts on the cohesion and effectiveness of the Western Alliance.

Vladimir Putin’s Art of Assassination

” It is not surprising that many critics of Putin and his policies have been murdered, and many speculate that the Kremlin is behind these murders because of two common denominators among the victims: public criticism of Putin and their sudden deaths.