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US “NATO 3.0” Push Turns Europe’s Defence Burden Into a Force-Planning Test
Washington’s call for a tougher “NATO 3.0” is not only a spending demand. It forces European allies to plan for crises in which US aircraft, carriers, tankers and command assets may no longer be available by default. The United States’…
Denmark’s Latvia Deployment Turns NATO Baltic Reinforcement Into Troops on the Ground
Denmark’s plan to send an 850-strong battalion to Latvia in autumn shows NATO’s Baltic deterrence becoming more concrete, as European allies translate eastern-flank commitments into scheduled troop rotations. Denmark’s decision to deploy an 850-strong battalion to Latvia in the autumn…
G7 Ukraine Pledge Tests Whether Air-Defence Promises Can Become Deliveries
G7 leaders have pledged additional air-defence systems, interceptors and long-range capabilities for Ukraine. The question is whether the commitment can be converted into weapons before Russia intensifies its winter strike campaign. The G7 summit in Évian has produced a renewed…
Ukraine’s Mid-Range Drones Show How Cheap Strike Systems Are Taking Over Scarce Missile Missions
Ukraine’s expanding fleet of mid-range strike drones is changing the economics of deep fires, taking on some missions that scarce missiles and rocket artillery cannot sustain at scale. Ukraine’s newest mid-range attack drones are beginning to fill a battlefield role…
SBU Says Russian Geran-2 Drone Hit Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra
Ukraine’s Security Service says debris found at the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra confirms that the historic monastery complex was struck by a Russian Geran-2 attack drone, contradicting Moscow’s claim that the damage was caused by a Ukrainian air-defence missile. Ukraine’s Security Service…
Ukraine’s Distributed Defence Production Model Challenges Europe’s Factory Assumptions
Ukraine's wartime defence industry is forcing Europe to ask whether rearmament should be measured only by output, or also by whether factories can survive missile and drone attack.
Iran May Have Rebuilt Missile Arsenal With Russian Help During US Ceasefire, Reports Say
Western allies reportedly believe Iran used the eight-week pause in fighting with the United States to reopen missile storage sites, replenish stocks and possibly add Russian-made missiles to its arsenal. Iran may have used its eight-week ceasefire with the United…
Angela Eagle: The Worrying Case of Britain’s New Security Minister
There is an old assumption in British politics that ministerial competence is transferable. A capable minister, it is said, can move effortlessly from pensions to policing, from agriculture to intelligence, from transport to defence. Mastery of the briefing box, familiarity…
The Defence Crisis That Could Define – Or End – Starmer’s Premiership
There are ministerial resignations that bruise governments, and there are resignations that expose something deeper: a collapse of confidence at the heart of administration. The departure this week of Defence Secretary John Healey, swiftly followed by the resignation of Armed Forces…
Cyprus Becomes New Front in Wider Contest Between Turkey, France and Regional Powers
Turkey’s warning over the France-Cyprus defence agreement has moved the security of the island into a wider confrontation involving Ankara, Paris, Nicosia, Athens, Israel, Iran and the United States. President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said Turkey would give a “very clear”…