


In an era marked by sharpening threats and resurgent great power competition, Britain and France are once again looking to the future—shoulder to shoulder, missile to missile. Today’s refreshed defence agreement between London and Paris is more than a procurement…

The next war is not about to begin with tanks rolling across a border or bombs falling from the sky. It has already begun, quietly, and in plain sight. This was the stark warning issued this week by the House…

In the gilded grandeur of Windsor Castle, beneath the candlelit chandeliers of St George’s Hall, King Charles III will tonight deliver a stark message of unity to President Emmanuel Macron: that Britain and France must “stand together” against a tide…

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte has warned that the People’s Republic of China may seek to provoke a Russian military attack on NATO member states in Europe to distract the alliance from a potential conflict over Taiwan. Speaking to The…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

A brutal lesson is being taught daily over the skies of Ukraine. Swarms of Russian drones and volleys of cruise and ballistic missiles rain down on cities and infrastructure, testing not only Ukrainian resolve, but the adequacy of modern air…

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…