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Europe Must Be Ready to Produce Millions of Drones, Warns EU Defence Commissioner
Europe must be prepared to manufacture millions of drones in response to the evolving threat from Russia, according to EU Defence Commissioner Andrius Kubilius. In an interview with Sky News, Kubilius warned that Russia could be capable of launching a…
Europe’s Guardian in Cyberspace: How the EDA Is Forging the Continent’s Digital Defences
Behind the fanfare of EU summits and defence declarations lies a lesser-known institution that has quietly transformed Europe’s ability to defend itself in the most modern and insidious of domains: cyberspace. While heads of state debate budgets and battlegroups, the…
NATO’s Hard-Won Awakening: How the Alliance Is Turning Russia’s Brutality Into Its Own Strategic Advantage
The war in Ukraine, now grinding through its third gruelling year, has become not merely a tragedy for Eastern Europe, but for NATO planners it is an open-air laboratory for modern warfare. From the rubble of Mariupol to the blackened…
Denmark Strikes Historic Arms Deal with Ukraine Amid Fears of Western Supply Fatigue
In a landmark move that underlines Kyiv’s growing desperation and Europe’s shifting strategic calculus, Denmark has agreed to host Ukrainian weapons production on its soil—a first-of-its-kind agreement between a NATO member and a country at war on the continent’s edge.…
1 LANCS: Lancashire Infantry Battalion Takes NATO Frontline Role Amid Russian Tensions
Britain’s 1st Battalion, The Duke of Lancaster’s Regiment (1 LANCS), has formally assumed one of NATO’s most vital front-line responsibilities as the alliance braces for potential conflict along its eastern borders. From July 1st, the 1 LANCS has stood at…
SAFE Alone Will Not Rearm Europe: Structural Weaknesses Undermine EU Defence Finance Plan
The European Commission’s new financial instrument, the Security Action for Europe (SAFE), has been presented as a flagship initiative to address Europe’s urgent defence needs. With €150 billion in loan capacity, SAFE aims to facilitate joint procurement and scale up…
UK and Germany to Sign Defence Treaty as Pillar of European Strategic Reset
Germany and the United Kingdom are set to sign a bilateral defence treaty on 17 July 2025, which will include a mutual assistance clause in the event of a strategic threat to either country. According to Politico the agreement marks…
New European Arsenal: EU Defence Debt Plan Aims to Bolster the Euro and the Union’s Backbone
In a move likely to spark fresh debate over the future of European integration, Olli Rehn, a senior figure at the European Central Bank, has floated a provocative idea: joint European defence borrowing to fund a new “defence development bank.”…
H-Hour: Russia’s War Against Europe
Last year, during a working-level exchange with officials from NATO Headquarters, I received a response to an assertion found in one of the Centre for “XXI Strategy”’s studies—something that might seem self-evident in the eleventh year of Russia’s aggression: “the…
Defence Matters: Europe Must Wake Up Before It’s Too Late
For all the talk of a “rules-based international order” Europe seems to have forgotten the first rule of civilisational survival: defend yourself, or be prepared to lose everything. Europe, a continent, which once projected power across oceans, now flinches at…