Uganda’s leadership is drifting into another authoritarian spiral. Three weeks after Uganda’s highly compromised election allowed Yoweri Museveni to retain power, the leader of the opposition National ...

The expiry of New START could further undermine the credibility of US extended deterrence and complicate European and US efforts to strengthen conventional deterrence. Today, 5 February 2026, the last ...

This research paper explores the transformative concept of prototype warfare in the maritime domain.

The recent return of China’s ‘wolf warrior’ diplomats has more to say about domestic pressures than about external challenges to China’s rise. Yet this risks obscuring the deeper internal causes for ...

The impact of Maduro’s capture will be negligible on Venezuela’s cocaine-trafficking. What are the defining characteristics of Venezuelan drug trafficking and how will they change after the fall of ...

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 ...

Achieving friendly and denying adversary battlefield transparency through massed drone use will be a key area of contest between opposing forces in future wars ...

While demonstrators fill the streets and squares of Iran, the world holds its breath, wondering if it is seeing the final days of a 47-year regime.

Despite rising military spending, the European Union’s defence capabilities remain constrained by fragmented procurement, uneven national budgets and weak coordination. Bolstering resilience and ...

Financing is an important yet overlooked element of Russian sabotage in Europe: it can act as both a facilitator and a tool of response. Russian sabotage covers a range of activity, from intensive ...

A briefing and question and answer session with a panel of RUSI experts, exploring the implications of President Trump’s threats to annex Greenland, part of NATO ally Denmark.

Europe will require new leadership as the US tilts from law to power. The current Trump administration’s new National Security Strategy can best be described as a sober look in the mirror by the ...