The accompanying excerpted article from the independent Russian-language website Kavkazskiy Uzel provides a regional analysis of how Azerbaijan balances its security cooperation with Turkey and Russia. It also discusses Azerbaijan’s…
In March 2022, Kyrgyzstan’s Border Guards carried out an exercise with their recently acquired Turkish Bayraktar TB2 unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Shortly after that, Tajikistan’s defense minister visited Turkey and…
Like Russia, Kazakhstan commemorates the Soviet Union’s victory over Germany in World War II. A few weeks before 9 May, the Kazakh government announced that it planned to cancel its…
The Make in India initiative initially encouraged the Indian Armed Forces to gradually purchase domestic weapons or equipment whenever possible, before establishing import ban lists in the past year (see:…
A few months after the end of the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh War, which resulted in significant Armenian losses, the Armenian government announced it would modernize the country’s armed forces. At the…
In August 2020, the Indian government introduced the first of several import ban lists for the armed forces. These lists included various items that the armed forces must procure from…
Following the Doklam border standoff in 2017, Indian officials repeatedly stated that the army needs to have better infrastructure in order to be prepared for a war with China. They…
The armed forces of Azerbaijan carried out several military exercises before the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh War that worked through scenarios of an operation in the occupied region, including a few joint…
For a number of years the governments of Tajikistan and Uzbekistan prepared for a possible change in government in Afghanistan, particularly how it would affect their security. While it appeared…
When India and Pakistan joined the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in 2017, questions abounded about how the two governments could cooperate in the organization while they had so many political…