Togo Yasuda is an Italo-Japanese post-graduate student with the Islands and Small States Institute at the University of Malta. Interested in matters related to Defense and Foreign Policy, he has on multiple occasions collaborated with the Maltese Ministry for Foreign Affairs and Tourism (MFT) and briefly with the Armed Forces of Malta (AFM). Currently, he is the author of the Defence Compendium newsletter on Substack which leverages his academic background in History to provide comprehensive analyses on a range of topics.