Framing defence spending as a path to prosperity ignores its poor economic returns, limited job creation, and the opportunity costs of not making alternative public investments. The government has ...

Vladimir Putin came to the Alaska summit with the principal goal of stalling any pressure on Russia to end the war. He will consider the summit outcome as mission accomplished.

Trump remains bafflingly unwilling to apply the maximum economic pressure on Russia that would mean summits like those held yesterday are more likely to yield the success Donald Trump craves.

If Putin’s military objective was to avoid immediate constraints on Russian operations in Ukraine, then he appears to have succeeded: the continued intensity of fighting reinforces the impression that ...

Read reactions from Director of Military Sciences Matthew Savill, Director of the Centre for Finance and Security Tom ...

I think the big thing is that it seemed pretty clear that nobody really knew what Witkoff had agreed when you went to Moscow. And there was back briefing afterwards but there needed to be a couple of ...

Khem Rogaly is Principal Research Fellow at the thinktank Common Wealth, where he leads a research programme on the military industry.

Faced with Beijing’s export controls on rare earth elements, the Trump administration has stepped in, but the risk remains.

Even if the war comes to an end, Russia will still be focusing on reconstituting its armed forces. “That will take quite a lot of time. It depends how committed the Russian military will be in ...

Marc Widdowson is a theoretical historian who has performed numerous research contracts applying lessons from history to contemporary challenges. His work on the relevance of social cycles to ...

An expert panel reflect on the 80th anniversary of VJ (Victory over Japan) Day and the UK-Japan relationship.