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 ...

Showing Russia that Ukraine can sustain its resistance while expanding the costs on the Kremlin is the only path towards a settlement on durable terms. As Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine ...

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 ...

One-to-many control of drones makes mass truly usable, circumventing the limiting factor of human attention. Ukraine’s use of uncrewed platforms is challenging a long-standing Western preference for ...

Sistani has issued a layered statement addressing the war against Iran. The recent statement issued by the office of Ali al-Sistani, the leading cleric of Iraq’s Najaf religious establishment, ...

Before sunrise on Sunday 1 March, Iranian Shahed drones directly struck two Amazon Web Services data centres in the United Arab Emirates. That same morning, debris from a nearby strike damaged a third ...

Football is ripe for exploitation by criminals and bad actors. Could applying anti-money laundering obligations to football be the solution? For decades, professional football has been beset with ...

This year we welcome Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard Knighton for his inaugural Chief of the Defence Staff lecture following his appointment in September.

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 ...

For regime change and the elimination of Iran’s nuclear programme through an air-only campaign, the US and Israel will have to contest with many unknowns. President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu ...

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 ...