For the last 12 or 24 months we have really seen a step up in the information warfare as part of the hybrid campaign that the Kremlin is waging across European capitals so Andy Burnham using his first ...

Jamie MacColl, a senior research fellow specialising in cyber at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), told the BBC western tech firms had been supporting Ukraine for some time - partly for ...

The new National Centre for Information Defence is a welcome, if overdue, step towards the UK mounting a more strategic response to foreign information warfare in the age of social media and AI.

Britain “has been overdue a more coherent strategic response to this threat. The threat environment has vastly changed, and the government’s response has so far been split across several departments." ...

Piracy off Somalia has surged in 2026. More than a ‘resurgence’ of a past problem, this reflects a rapidly evolving maritime ...

Russia’s elections were a staged affair, designed to legitimise Putin’s war on Ukraine. But elections have never decided ...

Christoph Bergs, an air power specialist at the Royal United Services Institute, said the extra tanker would be useful, but not decisive. “The Saudis already have this [refuelling] capability,” he ...

Open-weight AI models place powerful capabilities beyond any developer’s control. The UK should clarify how its investigatory powers apply before criminal use becomes routine.

Dan Marks, at the Royal United Services Institute, says the UK Government should also lay out a more coherent China strategy, instead of making ad hoc decisions about firms such as Mingyang or the ...

Germany’s attribution of the Leipzig drone attack to Russia shows why transport networks now sit at the centre of both NATO’s ...

Houthi gains around Bab Al-Mandeb have exposed rival visions of Gulf security, as Saudi Arabia, Israel, Turkey, Pakistan and ...

Northern Ireland is NATO territory. Irish unification would remove it from the Alliance – and neither London nor Dublin has ...