Cairo aims for greater regional clout

Significance The advent of a new US administration has presented Egypt with an opportunity to reaffirm its regional strategic importance, but also created new risks. Impacts The United States will remain an important factor in Egyptian foreign policy and military procurement, but it is no longer central. An accommodation between Egypt and Turkey may be feasible, and Saudi Arabia could support it, but the UAE might oppose it. Sisi will ignore Western criticisms of Egypt’s human rights record, calculating that the risk of any effective sanctions is low.

The digital transformation and application prospect of military procurement management

Throughout the military and economic development of various countries and the frontier of public resources, the development from informatization to digitalization and intellectualization has become the inevitable call of The Times. In the era of digital logistics, strengthening the digital management ability of military procurement is an inevitable outcome to meet the needs of modern war. Procurement digital management integrates big data, cloud computing, Internet of Things, process automation and other technologies to help the digital upgrading of traditional procurement links. How to apply digital technology to promote the construction and development of modern military procurement has become a subject worth in-depth discussion.

Crises could dash Niger government’s election hopes

Significance Official campaigning may take place only 21 days before the elections. His tour comes against the backdrop of military procurement corruption revelations, a deteriorating regional security environment and the COVID-19 epidemic. Impacts Bazoum has been the president’s right-hand man and a trusted ally of Paris and Washington on security; they will want to see him elected. As a member of the small Arab minority, Bazoum's election could cause ethnic shake-ups in Nigerien politics. Competition for the presidency will heighten with the entry of army leader Salou Djibo, whose 2010 coup restored democracy.

“Creative Destruction”

The strongest case for administered innovation systems relies on government sponsorship of research and development and technological discoveries during World War II and the modern postwar era. The American Civil War provides a useful counterpoint that demonstrates the effectiveness of markets in ideas even during the severe disruptions of a devastating battle on domestic soil. The Civil War was characterized by a high degree of technological creativity for military-related inventions and innovations, to a far greater extent than during the twentieth century. Both the sourcing of new technologies and military procurement were decentralized and subject to market forces. The market incentives for private inventors to engage in trial-and-error experimentation created an impressive portfolio of radical new technologies from which military leaders chose the most appropriate to support their strategies.

India's Military Procurement Programs & Economic Capacity: Compatibility & Pragmatism

In a world of Realpolitik, each state in the world always looks for increasing its power; some for the purpose of their survival and some seek to fulfill their hegemonic ambitions. Having a huge population, territory, economy, and military, the states like India usually desire to establish their hegemony; therefore, it is not surprising that India wants to achieve a Great Power status in world politics. Although India has great numbers in each area of strategic significance it lacks qualitative capacity in terms of military strength where the advanced weapon systems are the backbone of a country’s military power. In order to fill this gap, the Indian government has announced very ambitious military modernization programs and is concluding various military procurement programs around the world bearing huge costs while the big arms-exporting countries are getting involved in such ambitious military modernization programs of India. Over the past few years, it has been observed that the Indian economy has not been able to fulfill the costs of military modernization programs and the gap between the estimated costs of military procurements and the budget allocation is continuously increasing. Therefore, this study hypothesized that Indian military procurement programs and Indian economic capacity are not compatible with each other, which shall have perilous effects for the countries involved in such projects. This study provides an analysis of Indian economic growth and its comparison with the costs of India’s military procurements and finds that the stated hypothesis is correct to the extent of compatibility difference between the Indian economic capacity and military procurement cost.

Corruption findings will strain Nigerien government

Subject Corruption in military procurement. Significance With the presidential election set to take place in December, the government is under fire over its lenient approach to corruption in military procurement -- at a time when Nigerien soldiers have been losing their lives in the struggle to combat jihadist armed groups. With 160 Nigerien soldiers killed in recent jihadist attacks, the theft of money that could have been used better to equip the armed forces is a hot issue, particularly as the alleged culprits have connections to the ruling PNDS Taraya party. This offers opponents a chance to mobilise public opinion against the government. Impacts The exposure of corruption damages the ruling party’s claim of a track record of effective public sector management. The government allows culprits to escape jail time if they repay stolen funds, which will alienate urban public opinion. France and the United States will not publicly criticise the government, a key ally.