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Defence - Page 93

Breaking news and insights on Sri Lanka’s defence, military operations, and national security developments.

  • Easter Massacre FBI Affidavit
October 31, 2026
Defence/Geopolitics

Spain’s Rail Safety Under Scrutiny After Second Deadly Crash

Spain’s railway network is facing renewed scrutiny over maintenance funding and operational safety following the Urda train disaster in Toledo province on Wednesday, 28 October, less than nine months after a collision

Defence/Geopolitics

Satellite Delay: Gaza Goes Dark

Satellite imagery from the European Union’s Sentinel programme is being withheld for 24 hours over Gaza, parts of the West Bank and surrounding areas, delaying independent verification of military activity and demolitions, according to an analysis by investigative organisation Bellingcat.

October 31, 2026

Pentagon Urges European NATO Allies to Tone Down Rhetoric on Russia, Sources Say

Defence/United States

The Pentagon has privately urged several NATO allies to tone down their public rhetoric about the threat posed by Russia, arguing that statements by

Berlin Pride Attack Exposes Gaps in Germany’s Counterterrorism System

Defence/Geopolitics

Germany’s response to the July 2026 attack in Berlin illustrates a gap between identifying a terrorism threat and taking effective preventive action, according to

Media Tizzy and Myths on Yuan Wang 5

August 25, 2022
Defence/Diplomacy

The Indian security establishment and media had gone tizzy with the Yuan Wang 5’s visit to Hambantota in Sri Lanka. The media was abuzz with many comments based on figments of imagination

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Future of Islamist Terrorism in South Asia

August 24, 2022
Defence/Sri Lanka Guardian Essays

Time turns a page to mark a year since the re-emergence of the Taliban in Afghanistan through the colossal failure of the Biden administration’s botched military withdrawal. The threat that the Taliban

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Degeneracy of New Right

August 21, 2022
Defence/Diplomacy/Geopolitics/United States

A recent crisis in northern Kosovo came and went quickly, because nobody wanted an escalation. But it will return, because Russia is maneuvering in the Balkan shadows to stoke the tensions that

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Sri Lanka: Wickremesinghe – a feeble ‘strongman’

August 18, 2022
Defence/Diplomacy/Geopolitics/United States

Ranil Wickremesinghe has to tread carefully. The victory of reaction is far from stable and the Sri Lankan revolution is not over. What is over is merely its first, most innocent chapter.

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Travis Sinniah: First Sri Lankan to Be Honoured by NDU

August 16, 2022
Defence/News

On August 9, the National Defense University in Washington DC welcomed three new CISA alumni to the International Fellows Hall of Fame in a ceremony held in Sydney, Australia during NDU’s 16th

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Western ‘Naturalism’ Disrespects Nonhuman Animals and the Entire Natural World

August 16, 2022
Defence/Diplomacy/Geopolitics/United States

One species has transformed into a material backdrop for its tribulations the 10 million other species that constitute its extended family, its giving environment, and its daily cohabitants. More specifically, it is

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How India and Pakistan Lost True Freedom

August 15, 2022
Defence/Diplomacy/Geopolitics/United States

Europeans went to West Asia pretending to be businessmen and fostered political intrigues and treachery to become the ruler of the Sub-Continent. The conquest and looting of Moghul India in 1857 transformed

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West’s Bigotry and “Let Them Eat Tweets” style of Governance

August 14, 2022
Defence/Diplomacy/Geopolitics/United States

For centuries, the self-righteous West has been obsessed with transplanting its own culture and systems into other countries, inflicting countless deaths and suffering in the lands it deemed as “uncivilized” or “underdeveloped.”

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Sri Lanka: Our Meeting with President and His Promises

August 14, 2022
Defence/Diplomacy/Geopolitics/United States

At the invitation of the President, I met his Excellency along with our Party senior member Mr. S. Selvendra at 4.30 PM on 10th August 2022 at the Presidential Secretariat. The Prime

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Pakistan Navy Ship Calls at Port of Colombo

August 13, 2022
Defence/News

Pakistan Navy Ship (PNS) Taimur arrived at the port of Colombo on a formal visit yesterday morning (12th August 2022). The visiting ship was welcomed by the Sri Lanka Navy in compliance

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Ukraine Is a Wake-Up Call for Europe

August 12, 2022
Defence/Diplomacy/Geopolitics/United States

It is becoming clear that U.S. neoconservatives have succeeded in creating a warmongering, anti-Russian mood in Europe through an unprecedented information war, the consequences of which will take some time to assess.

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What is expected and available on the NHS in UK?

August 12, 2022
Defence/Diplomacy/Geopolitics/United States

With 8 to 10 hours of intermittent sunshine and weather as warm as Sri Lanka, over the past ten days, nobody in their right senses is wanting to visit A&E (Accident &

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Sanctions Fuel the Fire at Cuba’s Matanzas Oil Storage

August 11, 2022
Defence/Diplomacy/Geopolitics/United States

On August 5, a major oil storage facility in Matanzas, Cuba, 65 miles east of Havana, was hit by lightning. A tank that contained 25,000 cubic meters of crude oil caught fire

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Sri Lanka: Lest we forget, not Gota, but the political system failed the country

August 11, 2022
Defence/Diplomacy/Geopolitics/United States

Gotabaya Rajapaksa made mistakes as the President of the country, and grave ones at that too. Some of his decisions were ill timed and ill informed. Some decisions he should have taken,

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Taiwan announces the appearance of a new virus in China

August 10, 2022
Defence/Diplomacy/Geopolitics/United States

While surrounded by Chinese armed forces, Taiwan has announced that a new virus has been discovered in China. Her name? Langya-Henipavirus (LayV). This would be transmitted from animals to humans. Dogs and

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