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## [The Next China Shock Will Hit Defence](https://www.rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/commentary/next-china-shock-will-hit-defence)

_2026-08-20 · Andreas Urbanski,\[object Object\] · RUSI: Latest Commentary_

If tomorrow’s wars are fought mainly by machines, victory belongs to the power that can fuse AI with robotics and build the result by the million. Today, that is China.

## [The ‘Extinct Volcanoes’ Problem: Why Unit Strength Is Not Combat Power](https://www.rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/commentary/extinct-volcanoes-problem-why-unit-strength-not-combat-power)

_2026-08-19 · Roger N. McDermott,\[object Object\] · RUSI: Latest Commentary_

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.

## [Balochistan's Insurgency Is Turning Security into a Development Cost](https://www.rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/commentary/balochistans-insurgency-turning-security-development-cost)

_2026-08-18 · Filza Asim,\[object Object\] · RUSI: Latest Commentary_

Pakistan counts militants killed to the digit. It does not routinely measure whether goods can still move through Balochistan.

## [Indo-Pacific and Euro-Atlantic Security is Not Just Indivisible, it Merges](https://www.rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/commentary/indo-pacific-and-euro-atlantic-security-not-just-indivisible-it-merges)

_2026-08-17 · Philip Shetler-Jones,\[object Object\] · RUSI: Latest Commentary_

Conflicts are connecting in Europe and the Middle East, but could Asia be next?

## [Starmer, Burnham and Foreign Aid: A Troubling Inheritance](https://www.rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/commentary/starmer-burnham-and-foreign-aid-troubling-inheritance)

_2026-08-16 · Michael Jones,\[object Object\] · RUSI: Latest Commentary_

The contraction of UK aid, and its knock-on implications for security, pose big questions and lessons for Starmer’s successor(s).

## [Private Sector Cybercrime Disruption: Compatible with Statecraft?](https://www.rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/commentary/private-sector-cybercrime-disruption-compatible-statecraft)

_2026-08-13 · Gareth Mott,\[object Object\] · RUSI: Latest Commentary_

As organised cybercriminal attacks escalate and threaten national security and social order, should the private sector get (limited) authorisation to take the gloves off?

## [Age of Optionality: The Future is Not About Replacing the US Dollar](https://www.rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/commentary/age-optionality-future-not-about-replacing-us-dollar)

_2026-08-12 · Tom Keatinge and Eliza Lockhart,\[object Object\],\[object Object\] · RUSI: Latest Commentary_

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.

## [Building CBRN Crisis Ready Supply for Protection and Sustainment](https://www.rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/commentary/building-cbrn-crisis-ready-supply-protection-and-sustainment)

_2026-08-11 · David Crouch and Natascha McVeigh,\[object Object\],\[object Object\] · RUSI: Latest Commentary_

The next CBRN crisis will be shaped as much by supply chains, industrial resilience and public trust as by sensors and detection technologies.

## [Putin’s Political Longevity – A Framework of Considerations](https://www.rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/commentary/putins-political-longevity-framework-considerations)

_2026-08-10 · David Roche,\[object Object\] · RUSI: Latest Commentary_

Historic economic and social conditions point to a change of leadership in Russia, but a triggering event is still on the horizon for Putin.

## [Ensuring Offshore Infrastructure Protection Keeps Pace with Growth](https://www.rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/commentary/ensuring-offshore-infrastructure-protection-keeps-pace-growth)

_2026-08-09 · Commander Alexander Westley,\[object Object\] · RUSI: Latest Commentary_

Offshore energy infrastructure is being built at pace, led by offshore wind and electrical interconnectors, but the security architecture needs to keep up.

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## [Instrumentalised Migration and Russia’s ‘Disposable Agents’](https://www.rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/commentary/instrumentalised-migration-and-russias-disposable-agents)

_2026-08-05 · Zoe Neiman,\[object Object\] · RUSI: Latest Commentary_

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.