What is actually going to worry Putin more will be the fact that - in three or four years’ time - the general operational activity in the High North has increased four-fold and continues to increase.

"Ed Arnold from security thinktank RUSI said further melt will mean "that the Russians would have more control over [the Northern Sea Route]" via which ships can access waters around Britain. The ...

Adapting to advances in technology and battlefield tactics, the modern corps is changing to refine its role and way of ...

Grey Zone’ operations have become a persistent feature of peacetime, upsetting norms of conduct between states in the ...

Matthew Savill, the director of military sciences at the Royal United Services Institute, said that if Taurus was fired from the border it could conceivably hit targets close to Moscow. Though that ...

With a change in its relationship with the US, Europe faces mounting pressure to strengthen its own cyber defences. Europe ...

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Investing in small space start-ups instead of large primes will provide the UK with unprecedented agility, innovation, and ...

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European security is under strain as Russian aggression persists and US commitment appears to waver. With NATO-burden sharing under renewed scrutiny, European allies are being forced to reassess ...

I think this is a moment that is particularly important because both sides seem to have drawn their red lines and are now becoming more entrenched behind those red lines which is a cause of concern," ...

Because of these drones, Ukraine is forced to man the front line with static defensive positions supported by extensive deception measures, for example, large-scale digging, to obscure where troops ...