


South Korea has quietly fought off a barrage of assaults this year — not with missiles or tanks, but with firewalls and cyber specialists. The revelation that its military faced 9,200 cyberattacks in the first half of 2025 alone, a…

European leaders are racing to Washington in a high-stakes effort to safeguard Western unity after Donald Trump’s eyebrow-raising meeting with Vladimir Putin in Alaska. Ursula von der Leyen, Germany’s Friedrich Merz, France’s Emmanuel Macron and Finland’s Alexander Stubb will join…

The Alaskan summit between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin was less a diplomatic negotiation than an episode of The Apprentice: Geopolitics Edition. Trump, grinning like a compare about to deliver a catchphrase, called the talks “productive.” That word, in his…

India’s decision to deploy a high-tech Robotic Mule (MULE) along the Line of Control (LoC) marks a significant step in the militarisation of its border surveillance. The LoC, separating Indian- and Pakistani-administered Kashmir, is a rugged, volatile frontier, where terrain…

It is the sort of breach that would be the stuff of spy thrillers if the stakes were not so high. U.S. investigators now believe that Russia — or a proxy acting on its behalf — has been at least…

There is a grim and unwelcome truth that Europe’s political class has been studiously avoiding for far too long: the continent is not ready for a war it may not have the luxury to avoid. Russian aggression, once dismissed as…

In a significant development amid the ongoing conflict between Ukraine and Russia, Ukrainian open-source investigators have confirmed that a drone operated by Ukraine’s Defence Intelligence successfully damaged a Russian radar installation integral to the feared S-500 air defence system. The…

In what Downing Street is triumphantly branding a “breakthrough” in the battle against illegal Channel crossings, Britain has begun detaining its first group of migrants under a freshly inked pilot agreement with France. Migrants arriving via small boats are now…

There are few figures in modern British political history more maligned—or more vindicated—than Enoch Powell. For decades, his name has been shorthand for political infamy, a cautionary tale of a man who dared to speak the unspeakable. Yet, as Britain…

In a landmark step towards a fully integrated digital defence alliance, cyber units from Australia, New Zealand and the United States have, for the first time, jointly conducted a live-fire cyber warfare exercise during this year’s Talisman Sabre war games,…