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What twenty years
actually taught us.

Written for people making a decision about entering this market, not for search engines.

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·6 min

Counter-UAS in the Gulf — opportunities and challenges

Counter-drone has become a standing requirement across Gulf critical infrastructure, borders and major events. The programmes that succeed are layered, integrated into a command picture that already exists, and honest about the one question nobody wants to answer.

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·6 min

How defence companies fail in the Middle East

The failure modes are consistent, well documented and almost entirely avoidable. Nearly all of them come down to a mismatch between the timeline a board approved and the timeline the market actually runs on.

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04

·5 min

Why local partnerships matter more than product in the GCC

A technically superior bid routinely loses to a better-structured one. The partner carries the In-Country Value weighting, the local presence and often the end-user relationship — which makes partner selection the highest-leverage decision an entrant makes.

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