Defence
Britain and its European allies are becoming more deeply involved in the war in Ukraine, while Moscow increasingly describes NATO as a participant. A direct conflict remains avoidable, but the risks deserve serious examination…
United States
A Pentagon inspector general report has revealed deep failures in the United States military’s civilian harm mitigation system,…
Defence
Britain’s £1 billion order for new RCH 155 howitzers is being sold as rearmament, industrial renewal and NATO…
Britain
The deployment of HMS Dragon to the Strait of Hormuz is about far more than one Royal Navy…
Defence
Iran
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Iran
The ceasefire did not fail because diplomacy never opened. It failed because the pause after Islamabad was asked to carry a political weight it…
Defence
The ceasefire did not restore normal transit through Hormuz. It produced a rationed, militarised passage regime in which insurance costs,…
Diplomacy
Pakistan’s prime minister said the new two week U.S. Iran ceasefire covered Lebanon, and Reuters reported that Iran insisted on…
Defence
The Pakistan brokered ceasefire between Washington and Tehran is being sold as a narrow diplomatic success. In reality it is something more consequential: proof that the old Gulf trade model, built around unquestioned passage…
Defence
By the end of March, the Iran war no longer looked like a short cycle of retaliation. It…
Defence
The forces moving into the Gulf are not an invasion army for Iran but a rapid reaction package…
Defence
Trump’s five day pause on striking Iran was not a diplomatic breakthrough. It was a strategic recoil after…
Britain
Britain cannot claim neutrality while allowing RAF Fairford and Diego Garcia to be used for strikes on Iran. Once its territory becomes the launch…
Defence
Iran
China
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U.S. naval movements are not a retreat but a recalibration of risk: USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) and USS Gerald R.…
Defence
The war with Iran is revealing a deeper structural problem in the American security system. Early strikes on radar networks…
Defence
Israeli television presents a powerful narrative of military success, regime collapse in Tehran, and an inevitable shift in Middle Eastern power. But a closer look at the messaging reveals a more complex reality about…
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Iran does not need to defeat the United States or Israel quickly. Its strategy appears to be something colder: sustain missile and drone attacks…
Defence
Day five of the war with Iran shows the conflict expanding beyond the opening strikes into a regional…
Defence
What began as a decapitation strike against Iran has, by the fifth day, expanded into a regional confrontation…
Defence
If the war fails to eliminate Iran’s missile and drone capability, Israel faces the outcome it has warned…
Iran
The assassination of Iranian leadership during active negotiation for the second time in six months has transformed a limited military…
Defence
An evidence-based analysis of missile inventories, interceptor burn rates, production capacity, and cost exchange ratios to assess whether the United…