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 ...

The UK is consolidating dispersed intelligence services under a new defence-led Military Intelligence Services construct to optimise performance. The UK Ministry of Defence’s early-December ...

Protests in Iran add to an uncertainty over the fate of the Iranian regime, that is felt within the country and the region. Since protests erupted on 28 December 2025, Iran’s deepening cost-of-living ...

The Iranian regime has no answers to the country’s problems and there will eventually be change. But this may not happen quickly or neatly. As I write, it seems probable that the brutal suppression of ...

Europe's defence industry needs investment to meet growing security demands. The real problems are not ESG standards, but bureaucracy, banks' reputational concerns and the general defence market.

Russia's Zapad 2025 in Belarus focused on high-leverage capabilities, contrasting with the high tempo and mass in previous iterations of the exercises. Zapad 2025 is the 2025 iteration of Russia's ...

The war in Ukraine has diverted Russia’s resources and attention away from its own critical domestic security issues, creating uneven gaps in its ability to address terrorism, corruption, regional ...

Operation Rising Lion has demonstrated the vast conventional superiority that Israel enjoys over Iran, highlighting the importance of intelligence, surprise and effective air and missile defence. But ...

Since its signing in 2014, the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement has faced some delays in its implementation. However, with Beijing showing no signs of curtailing its aggressive behaviour in the ...

Military strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities and Tehran's criticism of the IAEA threaten to undermine the credibility and effectiveness of the Agency's work, with implications for non-proliferation ...

Geopolitical shocks continue to impact the oil market as prices spike in response to the Israel-Iran conflict. With the US mulling an attack on Iranian nuclear enrichment facilities in Fordow, the ...

The shadow fleets of Russia, Iran and North Korea are in the international spotlight, but efforts to counter their operations will fail while these vessels can so easily obtain new flags. The practice ...