There is promise in the UK’s Defence Investment Plan, but also a risk in adapting new technologies for use in differing military environments.

Details matter, and when it comes to sanctions implementation, governments need to provide the right details to the banks on the frontline. Currently, they do not. Governments increasingly regulate ...

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 ...

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 ...

As US political norms shift and the influence of tech platforms expands, the UK must urgently reassess its foreign interference defences. The Trump administration has openly stated its intention to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

With the new UK law on banning non-consensual intimate images coming into force today. Giles Herdale offers a timely assessment of the need to ensure that the central role of policing is not ...

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 ...