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 ...

Claims new drilling in the North Sea could materially reshape the UK’s energy security appear overstated, misbalancing the discussion on future developments. The prominence of the North Sea in the ...

How Iran uses proxies, shadow banking and criminal cut-outs to fund external operations and evade sanctions. Iranian-linked plots, surveillance activity and intimidation operations are drawing growing ...

The ambition of NATO’s 5% spending target is softened by the potential to categorise 1.5% of infrastructure spend within the goal, but how will that be interpreted? The strategic consequences of the ...

While religion is instrumentalised by adversary states, strategic analysts should better understand the classes of its application. Operation Epic Fury was intended to break Tehran’s will – as US ...

The success of China energy resilience approach should give foreign policymakers pause for thought. The war with Iran appears to have reached its end, and the Strait of Hormuz is expected to reopen, ...

Trump’s entanglement in Iran ended a series of unprovoked attacks which the US claimed as successes. It is demonstrating the limits of US military power and is at variance with the goals of the ...

This year's RUSI Land Warfare Conference – convened in partnership with the Chief of the General Staff – provides a forum to discuss the land forces’ contribution to NATO's deterrence posture, the ...

Secretary of State for Defence, The Rt Hon Dan Jarvis MBE MP, gives his closing remarks to Day 1 at RUSI's 25th Annual Land Warfare Conference.

Washington’s plan to re-evaluate its posture in Europe could further undermine US nuclear deterrence if it strips out conventional presence. At last week’s NATO Defence Ministerial, US Secretary of ...

The export controls directive limiting access to Anthropic’s latest AI models may be the tip of the spear, securitising development in the industry. On 12 June, US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick ...