Military and defence news API

What does the military and defence topic actually cover?

Procurement and budgets, exercises and deployments, defence policy and doctrine, and personnel. Distinct from armed conflict, which covers events; this covers the institution whether or not anything is happening.

How do I filter news to military and defence?

Pass topic=MILITARY on /search or /stories. Pair with a country. Defence coverage is national, and the same programme is reported very differently by the country buying, the country selling and the country it is aimed at. Querying in one language reliably returns one of those three framings.

GET /stories?topic=MILITARY&mode=hybrid&from=2026-07-24&limit=20

What catches people out with military and defence coverage?

Treating single-sourced claims as reporting. State outlets and defence-industry communications are a substantial share of volume on this topic, and capability claims in particular propagate through many outlets without ever acquiring a second source. Wide pickup here is evidence of an effective press release at least as often as of a real development.

Who publishes on it

Defence trade press carries programme and procurement detail and is generally reliable on contracts. National press covers budgets and politics. State media covers domestic forces with obvious interest. The independence range on this topic is wider than on almost any other, and the outlet list matters more than the count.

In the sample, 674 outlets carry military and defence coverage at about 2 articles each. The busiest is haberler.com at roughly 1%, and haberler.com, baomoi.com, index.hr account for about 4% between them. Flat enough that volume here translates fairly directly into independent reporting rather than one newsroom publishing repeatedly.

What it is best for

Best for procurement, budgets and posture — things that are announced, contracted and debated in public. Weakest for operational reality, which is classified where it matters and contested where it is not.

Monitoring it over time

Budget cycles and exercise calendars produce most of the structure, so learn them for the countries you follow before reading anything into volume. Procurement stories appear in the trade press well before the general press, which makes a trade-scoped query the earlier signal.

Which signals pair with military and defence?

Topic filtering answers what an article is about. Signals answer how strongly it reads that way and in what register, so combining them is usually sharper than either alone.

• defense — Military, procurement, security industry
• conflict — Armed conflict and hostilities
• governance_risk — Corruption, institutional failure

GET /search?topic=MILITARY&signal=defense&signal_min=0.25

How signals work →

Recent coverage

From the index on 2026-07-31, in the language each was published in.

• No fighting, but border security remains fragile, Kajokeji commissioner warns eyeradio.org
• Release schedule: when to wee and when to wait during this summer's biggest movies aol.co.uk
• Urgent: "Hostile drones" entering Kuwaiti airspace destroyed, material damage reported -- Kuwaiti Army-Xinhua english.news.cn
• 14 Givati soldiers jailed after mass desertion israelnationalnews.com
• Israeli soldiers stage mutiny at Sde Teiman base over removal of memorial display middleeastmonitor.com
• Tinubu speaks on Oriire abduction, curtailing State Police abuse promptnewsonline.com
• 14 Givati soldiers jailed after mass desertion israelnationalnews.com
• Lt. Col. Phill Cochran, USAF (Ret.), Pastor and Author of "Lessons Learned at the Speed of Sound" afr.net

Who covers it

haberler.com · baomoi.com · index.hr · baidu.com · globalsecurity.org · indiatimes.com · 24tv.ua · naslovi.net · zazoom.it · inewsgr.com · korrespondent.net · gazeta.ua

Counts are provisional pending a snapshot against the API.