Western defence industry not ready for high-intensity warfare – SIPRI

by Ahmed Adel, Cairo-based geopolitics and political economy researcher According to the AP news agency, citing the Stockholm Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), Western arms companies could not cope with the volume of orders and, furthermore, could not adapt production to “high-intensity warfare.” This has exposed Western countries, most notably the US and the UK, as they do not have the strong defence industries that they would have people believe in. “Many arms companies faced obstacles in adjusting to production for high-intensity warfare,” said Lucie Béraud-Sudreau, director of the independent institute’s Military Expenditure and Arms Production Program. Nan Tian, a senior researcher with SIPRI, […] #Featured #Military #UkraineWar #WarZone #World
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