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NORAD at the Edge of the Sky: From Cold War Sentinel to Modern Shield
High above the forests of Colorado, buried beneath the granite of Cheyenne Mountain, lies one of the most enduring symbols of the Cold War: the North American Aerospace Defense Command, better known as NORAD. Conceived in an era when the…
Britain’s Quiet Military Footprint in Ukraine
For much of the war in Ukraine, the West’s military assistance has been measured in shipments: convoys of ammunition, artillery pieces, armoured vehicles and drones dispatched across Europe’s eastern frontier. Yet wars are not sustained by deliveries alone. They are…
Europe moves to secure its ammunition lifeline
Europe’s accelerating rearmament has taken another step forward with a new industrial alliance that aims to address one of the most pressing bottlenecks in the continent’s defence supply chain: the production of artillery propellant. The Prague-based defence conglomerate Czechoslovak Group…
Counter Terrorism Officers Detain Trio in Intelligence Probe
In the early hours of this morning, counter terrorism officers moved quietly through addresses in London and Wales, executing a series of arrests that underline a growing and uneasy reality: the contest between Britain and hostile state actors is no…
Belgium seizes suspected Russian shadow fleet tanker linked by US sanctions to Iranian shipping network
Belgian authorities have seized a tanker identified as part of Russia’s so-called shadow fleet in what appears to be the country’s first operation of this kind at sea. The vessel, Ethera, was intercepted overnight off the Belgian coast and escorted…
Secret Tunnels and Hybrid Pressure: How Belarus and Russia Are Testing Europe’s Eastern Border
Belarus’s use of migration pressure against the European Union is no longer confined to flights, forest crossings and organised pushes at the frontier. According to reporting by The Telegraph, citing Polish officials, border guards discovered four underground tunnels under the…
Blasts Targeting Ukrainian Police Raise Fears of a New Kremlin Destabilisation Campaign
A series of explosions targeting or affecting Ukrainian police facilities in Lviv, Mykolaiv and Dnipro within a matter of days has prompted renewed concern in Kyiv over a possible campaign of destabilisation aimed at law enforcement. On Monday, 23 February,…
Pentagon cyber rules threaten to choke America’s defence supply chain
Washington has a long history of defeating its enemies through industrial might. From the Liberty ships of the Second World War to the semiconductor race with China, America’s power has rested not merely on its armed forces but on the…
Major General Wolf-Jürgen Stahl’s Trump Broadside Exposes Europe’s Strategic Anxiety
It is not often that a serving German general publicly dissects the character of an American president. That taboo has now been shattered. Major General Wolf-Jürgen Stahl, head of Berlin’s Federal Academy for Security Policy, has delivered a diagnosis of…
Wagner-Linked Recruiters Said to Target Europeans for Attacks Inside EU
Russia’s military intelligence agency is using parts of the Wagner network to recruit Europeans for sabotage operations inside the EU and wider NATO area, according to western intelligence officials cited by the Financial Times. The recruitment is described as outsourced:…