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The defense industry in 2026: a geopolitical overview
Four years into Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, with a new war raging across the Middle East and the Taiwan Strait simmering under near-constant Chinese naval and air activity, 2026 has become the year the world's defense-industrial base stopped talking about rearmament as a future project and started treating it as a permanent operating condition. Global military spending has jumped b…