A counter-drone system bought and owned today could be replaced within two or three product cycles. That makes an accession-fee, flight-hour-quota structure built for a thirty-year airframe a poor fit, and helps explain why NATO is using a marketplace model for fast-moving defence technology.

The debate surrounding Donald Trump’s return to the U.S. presidency has raised a concern in global politics: whether alliances can remain effective when their principal anchor increasingly approaches them as transactional arrangements rather than strategic commitments. For investors, policymakers, and multilateral actors, this is less a question of leadership style than of systemic resilience. Recent remarks by Finnish President Alexander Stubb, in conversation with Foreign A