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Ukraine reports overnight strikes on Russian refinery, missile ship and command post
Ukraine’s Armed Forces said they conducted a series of strikes overnight into 4 October, claiming hits on an oil refinery in Leningrad Oblast, a small missile ship in Karelia, military equipment in Kursk Oblast, and a command post of Russia’s…
Migration, Radicalisation, and the Manchester Synagogue Attack: A Wake-Up Call for Europe
On October 2nd, 2025, the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation in Manchester, UK, became the site of a brutal terrorist attack during Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar. Two Jewish worshippers, Adrian Daulby (53) and Melvin Cravitz (66),…
Britain Scrambles to Secure Strategic Space Assets from Enemy Strikes
In quietly unveiling a new programme to harden its defence of space assets, the United Kingdom is implicitly acknowledging a new frontier of confrontation. The modest £500,000 earmarked to develop sensors capable of countering laser attacks on satellites is, on…
Alona Lebedieva: Delays in implementing reforms could undermine Ukraine’s financial stability
Ukraine is preparing to enter 2026 with a record state budget deficit and a critical dependence on external financial assistance. The draft has been prepared under the same priorities as the current budget — concentrating resources on defence and…
Russia’s Aging Nuclear Arsenal: A Significant Threat to the World
Amid the constant chatter of global crises, a quieter but far more insidious danger is growing: the state of Russia’s nuclear weapons, largely inherited from the Soviet era, aging, overworked, and increasingly unreliable. Russia boasts the world’s largest nuclear stockpile, with…
The Silent Revolution Beneath the Waves: How Submarine Warfare Is Being Transformed
Few areas of military technology have been cloaked in such secrecy, myth and awe as submarine warfare. For much of the twentieth century, the ocean’s depths offered an almost impenetrable sanctuary for nuclear submarines, diesel-electric boats and the handful of…
Orbital Arms Race: The Emerging Reality of Space-Based Weapons
The militarisation of space, long a topic of speculative fiction, has become an increasingly tangible reality. In the coming years, the heavens may not be the serene domain once envisaged by early space explorers, but rather a contested frontier where…
Russia’s latest mass strike on Kyiv tests the meaning of Washington’s rhetorical shift
Russia’s overnight barrage against Kyiv and multiple regions on 28 September killed at least four people, including a 12-year-old girl, and injured dozens more. Ukraine reported nearly 600 one-way attack drones and close to 50 missiles launched over roughly 12…
Europe Turns Its Factories Into the New Frontline
The recent wave of drone incursions across European skies has made one thing brutally clear: security now depends as much on production lines as on soldiers. The Continent is discovering that factories are the new frontline. The European Union is…
Hegseth’s Quantico Summit: America on a War Footing?
When a U.S. defence secretary summons every general and admiral to report in person, the event is extraordinary—bordering on alarming. Pete Hegseth’s Quantico meeting next week is not a routine briefing or a political stunt. It is a statement: America…