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Beijing’s Nuclear Leap: China’s Missile Deployment Signals Strategic Sea Change
A draft Pentagon report concluded this week that Beijing has likely deployed more than 100 intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) across a series of newly constructed silo fields — a development with profound implications for the strategic balance between East and…
Pakistan’s Militarised State: A Strategic Threat Europe Can No Longer Ignore
Pakistan is not merely a troubled democracy with an overbearing army. It is, in effect, a militarised state whose institutions, economy and national identity are shaped by permanent confrontation. Nowhere is this more dangerous than in its posture towards its…
Ukraine, Russia and the Future of NATO: Europe Wakes Up to a Long War
Europe’s security debate is shifting from the language of “hybrid harassment” to that of a low-intensity war. A recent Financial Times analysis argues that Russia is conducting a systematic campaign of sabotage across the continent, using parcel bombs, arson, cyber…
What the President of Finland keeps silent about and what Ukraine must shout about
Western faith in multilateralism and “value-based realism” conceals a deeper strategic crisis, Hanna Hopko argues, as Ukraine and other “in-between” states become the decisive battleground in an emerging global confrontation. Finnish President Alexander Stubb wrote an article for Foreign Affairs…
Between Victory and Disintegration: Zaluzhnyi’s Stark Choices for Ukraine – and for Europe
Valerii Zaluzhnyi, now Ukraine’s ambassador to the United Kingdom and formerly Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, has set out one of the starkest assessments yet of the war and its political context. In a long essay for the Kyiv outlet…
Europe Must Develop the Power to Strike Deep — Before Russia Leaves It No Choice
Sweden’s announcement that it intends to acquire long-range weapons capable of striking deep inside Russian territory is not merely a Scandinavian adjustment to a worsening security climate. It is the first honest recognition, from any European government, of a truth our…
Japan Is Right to Prepare for Military Action if China Strikes Taiwan
Japan’s growing willingness to contemplate military action in the event of a Chinese assault on Taiwan is not merely a diplomatic signal. It is a long-overdue recognition of strategic reality. For too long, the illusion of distance — political, legal,…
Japan: Takaichi’s Tech Diplomacy Could Redraw Asia’s Balance of Power
Japan’s newly installed Prime Minister, Sanae Takaichi, has wasted no time in repositioning her nation at the heart of Asia’s security architecture. In her first major foreign policy signal, she pledged deepened cooperation in security, cybersecurity, and artificial intelligence with…
Greater Cooperation with Ukraine in the Defence Industry as a Strategy to Avoid War
Security of Europe through Unity and Resolve This material was written for the Polish outlet Eastern Flank Institute and was published on the think tank’s website on 20 October 2025. The war in Ukraine is the result of a whole…
UK Government’s Defence Industrial Strategy: A Strategic Shift in National Security
On 15th October 2025, the UK Parliament convened to discuss the Defence Industrial Strategy, a pivotal policy initiative aimed at reshaping the nation’s approach to defence procurement and industrial capabilities. The strategy, introduced by the Labour Government, seeks to bolster…