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Europe & UK’s Terrorism Threat picture in 2025: fragmented, hybrid, and persistent
Across the EU and the UK, the picture that emerges is not a single monolithic menace but a layered ecosystem: transnational jihadist organisations with global franchises; state sponsors and proxies that blur the line between espionage and terrorism; entrenched separatist…
Britain doubles its Sky Sabre defences – but is it enough?
Britain’s skies are about to become slightly less vulnerable. The Ministry of Defence has announced the purchase of six additional Land Ceptor missile launchers – the heart of the Sky Sabre system – in a £118 million deal with MBDA.…
Kremlin’s Cyber Parade In The Skies Shows How Space Has Become The Next Battlefield
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…
Europe’s Veterans Are Haunted By The Wars Politicians Asked Them To Fight
For much of the past three decades, Europe’s soldiers have been dispatched far from home – to Iraq, Afghanistan, the Balkans, the Sahel, and even the mountains of northern Syria. They went under NATO banners, UN mandates, or national expeditions,…
Kim Jong Un’s Arsenal: Fearsome Missiles, Fragile Reality
When Kim Jong Un declares that North Korea must “rapidly expand” its nuclear armament, the world tends to listen. It is not simply the bluster of a regime addicted to confrontation; it is also a signal that Pyongyang continues to…
Europe’s ‘Security Guarantees’ Leave Ukraine Exposed to Russia’s Next Move
The phrase “security guarantees” has reverberated across European capitals for months, echoing through parliamentary speeches, summit communiqués and interviews with diplomats. It has become the polite euphemism of the age: a term that sounds solid, perhaps even reassuring, but whose…
Trump Flirts with Appeasement as Britain and Europe Rally to Defend Ukraine
European leaders are racing to Washington in a high-stakes effort to safeguard Western unity after Donald Trump’s eyebrow-raising meeting with Vladimir Putin in Alaska. Ursula von der Leyen, Germany’s Friedrich Merz, France’s Emmanuel Macron and Finland’s Alexander Stubb will join…
Lithuania Builds Multi-Layered Defensive Line Against Russia and Belarus Threats
Lithuania has announced plans to construct a formidable, multi-layered defensive line across its frontiers with Russia and Belarus, a move that underlines the Baltic state’s growing unease in the face of Moscow’s aggression and Minsk’s complicity. The Ministry of Defence…
Ukraine’s drone industry tops ₴99bn (€2.28bn) in 2024; 2025 procurement points higher
Ukraine’s unmanned systems sector expanded rapidly over 2024–2025, shifting from a niche activity to a leading segment of the defence-industrial base by unit volume and revenue. Companies registered in Ukraine’s aircraft- and spacecraft-manufacturing category reported aggregate revenue of ₴17bn (≈€496m)…
Europe’s drone race to 2030: can the EU scale in time — and how Ukraine can help
A pair of recent airspace breaches over Lithuania, involving a suspected Russian “Gerbera” decoy drone that traversed Vilnius and later crashed inside the Gaižiūnai military training area, underlined how exposed Europe’s eastern flank remains. The incidents coincided with NATO Secretary-General…