The U.K. will stage an unusually large veteran reserve readiness exercise next year amid growing U.S. pressure to increase its defense posture.
The Marine Corps Reserve is actively deploying multidomain collection assets during an integration course for the first time in its history, marking a technological milestone that ensures the service remains an agile force prepared to dominate in complex, data-driven conflicts.
Soaring oil prices and a surging dollar are testing Asia’s foreign-exchange reserves, which were built up after the 1997 crisis.
As risk has escalated, central banks have bought more gold to stash in reserve. A widening Middle East war could add to the urgency.
Project Vault, as it's called, would store critical minerals in the way the Strategic Petroleum Reserve stores crude oil. However, the economics of mineral commodities are different in some ways from those of crude oil.