The targeting of water supply is being normalised by cognitive warfare. More must be done to reverse this. On 7 March 2026, Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi began the enabling information ...

Classified Russian government document revelations add to concerns that the adversarial nation’s undersea threat is both acute and invested towards a further-reaching campaign. In recent years, ...

Energy supplies remain a core driver of geopolitical volatility, notwithstanding the latest conditional ceasefire agreed between the US and Iran.

With the UK and US military facing potential numerical disadvantages in future conflicts, this Research Paper explores how lethality – defined as the rate at which a force inflicts damage relative to ...

Recent Western approaches to cybersecurity embrace the notion that the best defence is a good offence. The rapid adoption and expansion of offensive cyber powers reflect growing geopolitical ...

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 ...

As the conflict deepens, the world must urgently address the risk of biological weapons falling through the cracks. The intensifying military campaign by the US and Israel has rightly focused the ...

Aside from policy differences with the US, the UK’s Armed Forces’ size and capacity make difficult any large UK involvement in war with Iran. The outbreak of a new war in the Middle East has led to ...

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 ...

Its ammunition spent on Ukraine, Russia can no longer act on the world stage. The Moscow-Tehran axis is collapsing in real time. As US and Israeli strikes continue across the country, Tehran is ...

The Iran war shows loitering munitions critically influence conflict. Yet, allied air defences remain inadequate. Remedy requires will and investment in people and technology. Enjoy our analysis and ...

Conventional prompt strike (CPS) capabilities – such as medium-range ballistic missiles and hypersonic glide vehicles (HGVs) – play a critical role in enhancing European military power. Drawing on ...