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Ukraine’s Patriot Licence and Freyja Project Open Two Routes to Missile Defence
A proposed US licence to manufacture Patriot interceptors and a European-backed programme built around Ukraine’s Freyja system could strengthen Ukraine’s missile defences. Neither, however, will resolve Kyiv’s immediate shortage of interceptors. Ukraine is pursuing two parallel routes towards greater control…
The Great MRE Heist: History’s Least Appetising Criminal Enterprise
If organised crime has a hall of fame, the alleged theft of more than $1 million worth of U.S. military Meals, Ready-to-Eat (MRE) deserves its own display cabinet—not because of its audacity, but because of its spectacular lack of glamour.…
Trump-Zelenskyy Meeting Puts Ukraine Diplomacy Inside NATO Summit Politics
The planned bilateral in Ankara will place the future of the Ukraine war, possible US contact with Vladimir Putin and Europe’s role in any settlement inside a summit already strained by defence spending and transatlantic burden-shifting. Donald Trump is due…
NATO unity message masks hard questions over US force posture in Europe
Air Chief Marshal Sir John Stringer’s call for unity before the Ankara summit comes as European allies prepare higher defence pledges while Washington reviews its military presence on the continent. NATO’s deputy military commander has called for the alliance’s July…
Rutte’s White House Visit Puts NATO’s July Summit Under US Pressure
Mark Rutte's meeting with Donald Trump before the Ankara summit is a test of whether NATO can keep the US committed while Europe tries to prove that higher defence spending is becoming capability.
Italy’s Rebuke of Rutte Turns NATO Basing Into a Political Liability
Rome's rejection of Mark Rutte's claim about US aircraft using Italian bases for Iran operations exposes how allied basing can become politically explosive when operations move beyond Europe.
Moscow Signals Retreat from ‘Anchorage’ Formula as Ukraine and Europe Hold the Line
A new statement by Yuri Ushakov, a senior aide to Vladimir Putin, suggests that Moscow is moving away from earlier expectations linked to the so-called “Anchorage” understandings between Russia and the United States. His remarks are important not because they…
UK Missile Project for Ukraine Cuts Out US Components
Britain’s new long-range missile prototypes for Ukraine point to a wider defence-industrial problem: European weapons are increasingly being designed to avoid reliance on US export controls and political approval. The United Kingdom has unveiled three prototype long-range missiles for Ukraine…
US-Iran MOU Ends War but Leaves 60-Day Test Over Nuclear Limits, Hormuz and Lebanon
Donald Trump and Iran’s Masoud Pezeshkian have signed an initial memorandum to end the war, but the 14-point deal leaves the hardest questions over sanctions, nuclear monitoring, Hormuz shipping and Lebanon to a short negotiating window. The United States and…