Security guarantees] need to be credible,” said Matthew Savill, director of military sciences at the Royal United Services Institute think tank. “So the problem of basically saying ‘like Nato Article ...

Framing defence spending as a path to prosperity ignores its poor economic returns, limited job creation, and the opportunity costs of not making alternative public investments. The government has ...

Nato is a potent force, Europe is a potent force, if we can hold together. We’re on our way to address material shortages, but will European unity hold? If the Americans aren’t there and the Russians ...

The sheer number of European leaders potentially in attendance means the group will have to be “mindful” not to give “contradictory” messages, Melvin said. “The risk is they look heavy-handed and are ...

Britain is a “perfect place” for this business, says Elijah Glantz of RUSI, a think-tank, because of its saturated consumer market and weak export controls. There are lots of expensive cars and phones ...

Vladimir Putin came to the Alaska summit with the principal goal of stalling any pressure on Russia to end the war. He will consider the summit outcome as mission accomplished.

Trump remains bafflingly unwilling to apply the maximum economic pressure on Russia that would mean summits like those held yesterday are more likely to yield the success Donald Trump craves.

If Putin’s military objective was to avoid immediate constraints on Russian operations in Ukraine, then he appears to have succeeded: the continued intensity of fighting reinforces the impression that ...

Read reactions from Director of Military Sciences Matthew Savill, Director of the Centre for Finance and Security Tom ...

An intense Russian effort to achieve drone superiority in the sector since early May has made it more difficult for Ukraine to repel the infiltrators, according to Sam Cranny-Evans, a military analyst ...

I think the big thing is that it seemed pretty clear that nobody really knew what Witkoff had agreed when you went to Moscow. And there was back briefing afterwards but there needed to be a couple of ...

Khem Rogaly is Principal Research Fellow at the thinktank Common Wealth, where he leads a research programme on the military industry.