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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Houthi attacks on shipping are read as an instrument of geopolitical pressure. That reading is incomplete. The attacks have a second, less visible effect – and it is economic. Since late 2023, the ...

While STC controlling the majority of Yemen’s southern littoral may constrain the Houthis’ ability to operationally expand attacks into the Gulf of Aden, the benefit may outweigh the costs. The ...

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 ...

This paper examines Japan's vulnerability to foreign influence and proposes legislative measures, drawing lessons from the UK, the US and Australia. The Policy Research Council of the Liberal ...

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 ...

Establishing a new force with military status will help protect critical national infrastructure but needs to be more than an afterthought to Reserve force planning. Article 3 of the NATO Treaty, ...

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 ...

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 ...