At a G20 meeting, British Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband said Russia 'will not win this war,' a strong statement that stands out because the US Defense Department has reportedly been urging NATO allies to use softer language about Russia.
The US Defense Department has privately pushed NATO countries in Europe to say less in public against Russia, according to Reuters, which cited three unnamed sources.
The United States, Canada and European countries are all spending more on defense, but none of them can produce weapons fast enough to match the new budgets.
This week the European Union approved laws to grow its own defense industry, the Pentagon fixed its missile-buying process after running low on stock during Iran's strikes, and India's defense ministry pushed to reform weapons buying and research tied to a $25 billion industry.
ChangXin Memory Technologies, a major Chinese maker of memory chips, is suing the US Department of Defense in an American court over being placed on a Pentagon list of alleged Chinese military companies.
The US Defense Department is preparing choices for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on how many American troops should stay in Europe, due by November 6.
Three defense stories this week show Western arms makers can't build weapons fast enough for the wars happening now.
An analysis published this week links three unrelated stories: an oil-price shock hitting Latin American budgets, ten African countries qualifying for next year's World Cup, and Western firms like Raytheon and Lockheed Martin winning huge new weapons contracts.
Four defense stories this week point to the same problem: governments have money and plans, but not enough factory capacity to build weapons fast enough.
Ukraine bought 70 ATACMS, a US-made long-range missile, from Turkey instead of the US.
Several new reports this week look at Iran's missile attacks, low US weapons stockpiles, and hacking simulations, and find the same root cause: aging weapons factories and wavering political resolve are undercutting the West's ability to deter attacks.
The Pentagon plans to give up command of SAG-U, the hub in Wiesbaden, Germany, that has organized Western training and weapons deliveries to Ukraine since 2022.