Royal United Services Institute
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More than a century ago, Aleksandr Svechin warned against mistaking formations that still existed on paper for units that retained real fighting power. Ukraine shows why that distinction still matters.
Pakistan counts militants killed to the digit. It does not routinely measure whether goods can still move through Balochistan.
Conflicts are connecting in Europe and the Middle East, but could Asia be next?
The contraction of UK aid, and its knock-on implications for security, pose big questions and lessons for Starmer’s successor(s).
As organised cybercriminal attacks escalate and threaten national security and social order, should the private sector get (limited) authorisation to take the gloves off?
The financial system is evolving toward greater choice rather than a new hegemon, requiring policymakers to rethink how economic power, resilience and sanctions will operate.
The next CBRN crisis will be shaped as much by supply chains, industrial resilience and public trust as by sensors and detection technologies.
Historic economic and social conditions point to a change of leadership in Russia, but a triggering event is still on the horizon for Putin.
Offshore energy infrastructure is being built at pace, led by offshore wind and electrical interconnectors, but the security architecture needs to keep up.
Instrumentalised migration and Russia’s recruitment of disposable agents exploit the same European weakness: treating deniable acts of coercion as isolated rather than as elements of a wider campaign.