for collective defense within the NATO framework, the country has also gone above and beyond in its support for Ukraine and strengthening its domestic defense capacity. According to Dr. Justina Budginaite-Froehly’s article “The Baltic (R)evolution in Military Affairs,” all of the Baltic states are working to increase their self-sufficiency of
who have increasingly turned
The rapid growth of the Estonian defense-tech ecosystem is not just due to the activities of the private sector — namely, many prominent entrepreneurs and investors in tech companies like Skype, Skeleton Technologies, and Bolt, who have increasingly turned their focus to Estonia and Ukraine’s defense — it is also due to the active support of
stage defense ecosystems
early-stage defense ecosystems in the world outside of Ukraine. Startups like Frankenburg Technologies, which plans to produce anti-drone missile systems in Ukraine, have popped up with significant fanfare. According to the CEO of the Defense Industry Association, which represents a large swath of the Estonian defense sector, total member turnover