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Talisman Sabre 2025: Allies Join Digital Front in First-Ever Cyber Defence Drill
In a landmark step towards a fully integrated digital defence alliance, cyber units from Australia, New Zealand and the United States have, for the first time, jointly conducted a live-fire cyber warfare exercise during this year’s Talisman Sabre war games,…
Lights Out Over the Strait: Taiwan, Blockade, and a Conflict That Could Reshape the Pacific
This week the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) released Lights Out? Wargaming a Chinese Blockade of Taiwan, a detailed simulation-driven enquiry by Mark F. Cancian, Matthew F. Cancian and Eric Heginbotham. Over the course of 26 separate wargames, Beijing…
Hybrid Cyber Threats Surge: Europe’s Power Grids Under Siege
Europe’s energy infrastructure is facing an unprecedented wave of cyberattacks, prompting EU security officials to rank hybrid digital warfare among the gravest threats to the bloc’s stability this year. Across the continent, energy grids—once considered the preserve of domestic engineers…
Europe’s Military Training Crisis: Why the Continent Is Unprepared for War
When Russia crossed the Dnipro in 2022, the shock was felt far beyond the front lines. Europe’s military doctrine—thin, underfunded, and overly reliant on peacetime assumptions—was unmasked for what it is: a hollow structure ill-equipped for the rigours of modern…
Putin’s Illusion of Peace: The Baunov Analysis
Alexander Baunov, distinguished senior fellow at the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center, offers a masterclass in reading between the lines of Moscow’s latest peace overtures in his New York Times op‑ed, published on 29 July 2025. In his trenchant analysis, Baunov dissects…
Cyprus: UK Forces in Dramatic Response to Deadly Wildfires
British military personnel have stepped in with hoses, helicopters, bulldozers and medics to assist Cyprus in its battle against one of the worst wildfires in recent memory. The intervention underlines Britain’s enduring strategic presence on the island and its close…
Europe’s Transport Network ‘Unfit for War’, Says EU Commissioner
The European Union’s transport chief has issued a stark warning over the continent’s readiness for war, claiming that Europe’s roads, railways and bridges would struggle to support a large-scale military deployment in the event of a conflict with Russia. In…
Uncontrolled Migration Is a Major Security Risk — Pretending Otherwise Won’t Help
Across Europe, a troubling silence persists. It is not the silence of ignorance, but of evasion—deliberate, cultivated, and maintained by a political class unwilling to confront one of the great questions of our age: what happens to a democracy when…
Zaluzhny: NATO Is Not Ready for the War That Has Already Begun
Valeriy Zaluzhny, Ukraine’s ambassador to the United Kingdom and former Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, has urged Western governments to reassess their defence strategies in light of rapidly changing realities on the battlefield. Speaking in a wide-ranging interview with LB…
Europe’s New Iron Curtain: How Britain, Berlin and Warsaw Are Redrawing the Defence Map
The dream of a pacified continent secured forever under the American nuclear umbrella is fraying fast. As the war in Ukraine drags into its fourth year and in the context of a second Trump presidency, Europe’s old reliance on the…