There is promise in the UK’s Defence Investment Plan, but also a risk in adapting new technologies for use in differing military environments.

Organised crime no longer operates outside international politics. Criminal networks are increasingly present in spaces once associated with intelligence services, foreign policy and national security ...

2025 offered the most generous potential off-ramp for Vladimir Putin. He rejected it. Russia must demonstrate to its domestic audience and to the West that it retains the initiative and remains a ...

Significant numbers of advanced munitions have been expended, revealing that battlefield dominance matters less than the industrial capacity to replenish critical stockpiles. While American and ...

Within 12 months, the US President’s second term in office has had an impact on international relations unlike any in recent memory. Unpredictable. Unorthodox. Unprincipled. Foreign leaders, military ...

Our experts comment on the US attacks on Venezuela and arrest of President Nicolás Maduro. Any consequent instability in Venezuela could have a spill-over effect in the region that would affect ...

Israel and the US’s targeting of Iran’s supply chain routes are starting to have a discernible impact on Russia’s long-term infrastructure plans. Much of the practical fallout from the Iran-Israel war ...

As the conflict deepens, the world must urgently address the risk of biological weapons falling through the cracks. The intensifying military campaign by the US and Israel has rightly focused the ...

Despite Assad’s fall, Russia retains influence through debt leverage, military basing and security mediation. Commodity flows continue, and the opaque nature of existing agreements enables corruption ...

The death of Navalny in a Russian prison is the latest in a long history of state assassinations using poison. But why is it used and can an effective deterrent be engaged? The European governments’ ...

President Trump’s new corollary to the Monroe doctrine will provide more triggers for forceful action in the Western Hemisphere, but the focus on Latin America could motivate the US toward more ...

The UAE has emerged as Israel’s most operationally significant Arab partner. But, for now, the relationship is no guarantee of wider regional integration. On 4 May, an Israeli-operated Iron Dome ...