Briefing Room 13.06.26
The Franco-German FCAS fighter program is dead, JNIM turns its guns on Mali's Dozo militias, and Myanmar's Arakan Army drafts conscripts in a race against the junta.
Simon Whistler • June 13, 2026
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Welcome back to The Briefing Room, the weekly front-exclusive show where we discuss the conflict and event stories that only the real nerds can be trusted to handle. And that's you, by the way.
This week we're digging into an all-time failure in the European defence world, the collapse of the joint FCAS fighter programme between Germany, France, and to a much lesser extent Spain.
Then we're going to take a look at the nation of Mali, where instead of discussing battles between the Al-Qaeda-linked insurgency Janim, the Taureg separatist rebels, and the ruling military government, we'll instead be covering a confrontation between Janim and a new regional adversary.
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