Futures

The Promise of Ukraine’s Military-Industrial Complex





By Andrew Ryvkin In 2022, when Russia invaded Ukraine, Kyiv had an outdated defense-industrial base that was unable to meet the demands of the conflict. In the first year of the war, it was almost entirely dependent on Western arms shipments. Though Ukraine still lacks the ability to produce many of the weapons it needs […]

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Geopolitical Futures (GPF) was founded in 2015 by George Friedman, international strategist and author of The Storm Before the Calm and The Next 100 Years. GPF is non-ideological, analyzes the world and forecasts the future using geopolitics: political, economic, military and geographic dimensions at the foundation of a nation.


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