


The European Union is not known for moving at lightning speed, yet in one of its most ambitious ventures to date, Brussels is trying to prove the doubters wrong with IRIS². IRIS², a €10.5 billion project to build a sovereign,…

It was once the preserve of astronomers and dreamers, a serene stage for satellites and lunar probes. Now, in words that leave little doubt about the new strategic landscape, India’s Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has declared that space is no…

When Russian tanks trundled across Moscow’s Red Square this May, the Kremlin’s theatrics were not confined to cobblestones. In Ukraine, television viewers expecting their usual evening programming instead found themselves watching live footage of the Victory Day parade—beamed not by…

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…

The timing could hardly have been more provocative. Just hours before Vladimir Putin is due to sit across the table from Donald Trump in Anchorage, the Russian president ordered a ballistic missile strike on the Ukrainian city of Dnipro —…

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…

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,…

Europe’s energy infrastructure is facing an unprecedented wave of cyberattacks, prompting EU security officials to rank hybrid digital warfare among the gravest threats to the bloc’s stability this year. Across the continent, energy grids—once considered the preserve of domestic engineers…

A shadowy American neo-Nazi group calling itself “The Base” has publicly claimed responsibility for the assassination of Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) Colonel Ivan Voronych, in what it described as a “targeted operation” inside Ukraine. The group has also issued further…

In the silence of a tightly controlled briefing room in Paris, France’s highest-ranking military officer delivered what may be the most unvarnished warning Europe has heard in years. “Russia considers France its number one adversary in Europe,” said General Thierry…