Strengthening Europe’s defence requires public spending and public backing. How can political leaders explain and gain ...
France already leads a monitoring mission in the Strait of Hormuz to protect trade there, and if a military operation to support opening the strait does get underway, Macron could take credit for ...
The Iranian strategy here is very much about not trying to defeat the American military because they can't, but trying to impose such costs upon the world and the Americans and the global economy that ...
Clearing the mines under fire would come at great cost. You need to suppress the risk from fire before you can clear the ...
Mining is a threat, not because the Iranians can physically close the strait (most mine-laying vessels can be struck, especially if they have no traffic to hide in) but rather because it only takes a ...
Dr Louise Marie Hurel from the Royal United Services Institute ... argues the war has shown that cyber should be talked about in the same way as conventional action to maintain rules of engagement.
This paper explores transnational anti-rights mobilisation as a hybrid threat to UK and European democracy, driven by foreign actors, funding and influence. ​ ...
Natia Seskuria is an Associate Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI). She is also a Founder and Executive Director of the Regional Institute for Security Studies (RISS), a Tbilisi-based ...
Pro-Iran armed groups under the banner of the ‘Islamic Resistance in Iraq’ have targeted US military assets through asymmetric attacks,” Burcu Ozcelik, a senior research fellow for Middle East ...