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Eastern Sentry Looks Reactive as Russian Drones Test NATO’s Eastern Flank
Repeated air alerts in Poland and Romania this week, coupled with NATO’s launch of the Eastern Sentry mission, underscore an alliance still reacting to events rather than shaping them. On 9–10 September, Poland became the first NATO member state to…
Project Bromo: can Europe’s satellite champions escape gravity of Brussels bureaucracy?
If Europe needed a symbol of its belated awakening to the new age of great-power competition, it could do worse than the news that Airbus, Thales and Leonardo — the continent’s aerospace titans — are preparing to fuse their satellite…
The Grim Truth – No European Capital is Beyond Moscow’s Reach
It has taken two and a half years of bloodshed in Ukraine, a cascade of Russian missile strikes across Eastern Europe’s periphery, and the unnerving intrusion of drones into Polish airspace, but Nato is finally confronting a grim truth: geography…
Russian drone probes in Poland: mapping NATO’s seams and logistics risk
Russian-origin unmanned aircraft entering Polish airspace on 10 September were not random strays but a structured probe aimed at Polish air defences and NATO decision-making. The pattern of debris south of Lublin and assessed routing towards Rzeszów–Jasionka—the principal trans-Atlantic logistics…
“Enough Is Enough”: The West Must Hit Russia Where It Hurts, Urges Sir Iain Duncan Smith
Sir Iain Duncan Smith is rarely, if ever, accused of understatement, and his contribution to Wednesday’s Commons debate on Russian drones straying into Polish airspace was characteristically blunt. Fresh from a visit to Ukraine, he cut through the platitudes and…
Jets scramble, policy hesitates: Alliance response to Poland incursions underwhelms
Poland and its allies scrambled fighter aircraft overnight on 10–11 September after nineteen unmanned aerial systems — launched during a large Russian strike on Ukraine — violated Polish airspace. Polish F-16s, supported by Dutch and Italian jets, shot down several…
Poland Triggers NATO’s Article 4 After Russia’s Drone Attack
In a striking turn of events that has set alarm bells clanging in the heart of NATO, Poland confronted an unprecedented violation: at least 19 Iranian-made Shahed drones, launched amid a devastating Russian aerial assault on Ukraine, breached its airspace…
The New Doomsday Plane: United States Air Force Reboots Its Skyborne War Room
In an era when wars are fought as much in cyberspace as in the skies, the United States Air Force quietly took a resolute step back into the hard realities of strategic defence. Earlier this month, Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC)…
Baltic–Nordic report: Russian GNSS interference disrupted almost 123,000 flights in four months
Nearly 123,000 flights were affected by interference traced to Russian territory in the first four months of 2025, according to a joint submission to the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) by Sweden and five neighbouring states. The authorities describe the…
Beijing’s Parade of Power: A New Axis of Evil Emerges
Tomorrow, Beijing will not so much commemorate history as parade its ambitions for the future. Xi Jinping has ordered the largest military spectacle in China’s modern history, ostensibly to mark the 80th anniversary of Japan’s defeat in the Second World…