Branko Ruzic

Commercial Pathways and Proxy Power: How Irregular Forces Acquire Advanced Capabilities

In June 2024 Italian customs officials opened shipping containers labeled "wind turbine parts" bound for Libya. Inside were disassembled components for Chinese Wing Loong II drones—the same systems UN investigators had forensically linked to the January 2020 Tripoli military academy strike that killed twenty-six cadets. Four years