Valentyn Badrak

“No endeavor whatsoever can succeed without a spy.”Lao Tzu, an ancient Chinese philosopher, 6th to 5th centuries BCThe war is not only still going on, but is also increasingly expanding the spectrum of non-violent actions and special operations being conducted at a considerable distance...

The Kremlin is making a search. The Russian occupation of Ukraine’s sovereign territories and involvement in the bloody Syrian conflict has caused a serious problem in manning army units with high-skilled specialists. This means that it is not so simple to force people to play the role of...

On May 6, several days prior to Victory Day, the National Security and Defense Council (RNBO) adopted the Strategy of National Security (SNB) of Ukraine as the main defense planning document. Usually this is followed by a new military doctrine, whereupon specific programs – like the armed...

Ukraine is the second country in the world to design a traffic collision avoidance system (TCAS). This idea was brought to life in 2003 by the Kyiv-based scientific research institute Buran, which has been specializing in avionics for civilian and military transport aircraft since 1987. Virtually...

Ukraine has made a firm decision to reduce the state’s role in managing military-industrial complex (MIC) facilities. In principle, this is what experts have been advising for a long time. Yet, the key question is not whether it is necessary to privatize munitions plants but how to do this. Will...

Skeptics of Ukraine’s Euro-Atlantic integration have said much about an avalanche of problems that the Ukrainian defense industry will face because of it. The success stories of Polish and Czech defense cooperation with the Western European nations carry little conviction because Ukraine’s defense...

This was by no means the first “NATO landing operation” in Donetsk: the North Atlantic alliance has notably expanded its dialogue with eastern and central Ukraine, shifting the center of gravity in its relationship with Ukraine from Kyiv to the regions, and universities are co-sponsoring such...

The talks between the Ukrspetsexport state arms sales firm and Nuri Shaveiz, Secretary General of the Iraqi Defense Ministry, during his official visit to Kyiv were held behind closed doors, of course. Ukraine, like most world weapons market operators, is not keen on publicity in this field of...

The current meeting between Ukrainian and Russian defense officials and arms dealers, held this time in Sevastopol, could have been even more fraternal than the previous ones, but for a single fact striking a loud, discordant note in the neat system of interrelations: the selection of defense...

The much-publicized seizure of two containers en route from Ukraine to Egypt on June 2, 2004, by Turkish customs officers at Ambarli (Istanbul) is now a matter of history for journalists and the public. Nevertheless, an analysis of this incident provides grounds, first of all, for the belief that...