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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Russia’s partnership with North Korea could advance Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons programme through technical aid and proliferation financing, particularly in the absence of global controls. Russia’s ...

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

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 ...

With Russia and Ukraine rapidly adapting to and imitating each other's technical innovations, neither side has been able to gain a decisive edge in the conflict after four years. In this video ...

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 ...