Gary Cartwright
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Forgotten Heroes: How Britain and Europe Are Failing Their Homeless Veterans
They stood ready to give their lives for their countries. Now, too many forgotten heroes sleep rough in shop doorways or cold public parks, betrayed by the very states they once served. Across the United Kingdom and continental Europe, a…
Cyprus: UK Forces in Dramatic Response to Deadly Wildfires
British military personnel have stepped in with hoses, helicopters, bulldozers and medics to assist Cyprus in its battle against one of the worst wildfires in recent memory. The intervention underlines Britain’s enduring strategic presence on the island and its close…
Europe’s Fighter Jet Future: AI in the Cockpit as Helsing and Saab Break New Ground
A Swedish fighter jet hurtles through the sky above the Baltic Sea, its engines roaring and radar arrays sweeping the horizon. But inside the cockpit, there’s no pilot—just a black box packed with code. Europe is now on the threshold…
Europe Braces for Trump’s Troop Gamble, and the Bill That Comes With It
As NATO allies tally up their defence budgets and contingency planners dust off maps of Europe’s eastern flank, one question now looms above all: how far is President Donald Trump prepared to go in scaling back America’s military footprint on…
Uncontrolled Migration Is a Major Security Risk — Pretending Otherwise Won’t Help
Across Europe, a troubling silence persists. It is not the silence of ignorance, but of evasion—deliberate, cultivated, and maintained by a political class unwilling to confront one of the great questions of our age: what happens to a democracy when…
Europe’s New Iron Curtain: How Britain, Berlin and Warsaw Are Redrawing the Defence Map
The dream of a pacified continent secured forever under the American nuclear umbrella is fraying fast. As the war in Ukraine drags into its fourth year and in the context of a second Trump presidency, Europe’s old reliance on the…
Exercise Talisman Sabre: American Paratroopers Descend on Australia in Spectacular Night Drop
They dropped from the stars with the precision of a scalpel and the impact of a hammer. At precisely the right moment on July 14th, in the pitch-black skies above rural Australia, U.S. Army paratroopers descended through the night, their…
The EU’s Defence Union Dream May Not Survive Its’ First Clash With Reality
The European Union’s bureaucrats are once again dreaming imperial dreams. This time, it is not a federal treasury, a pan-continental digital currency, or another ill-fated push for “strategic autonomy”—but a “single market for defence”. At the heart of this latest…
Europe at the Brink: Are the EU’s 27 Member States Ready for War?
It is the kind of question that used to be whispered in think tanks and war colleges—an abstract exercise for Europe’s policymakers and generals. Now it is being asked aloud in parliaments, defence ministries, and increasingly anxious households from Vilnius…
SAFE: Europe’s €150bn defence loan fund is a desperate bid to paper over years of military neglect
The European Union’s decision to launch a €150 billion defence loan instrument – dubbed “SAFE” – marks a dramatic departure from decades of post-Cold War complacency. But make no mistake: this is not a show of strength. It is a…