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Seoul holds live-fire drills near disputed sea border with North Korea

South Korean marines fired hundreds of rounds for a maritime live-fire exercise near the disputed western sea border wit...

Djibouti Approves Further Basing Expansion on Its Coastline

A new logistics pier and expanded airfield apron add capacity to one of the world's densest concentrations of foreign ba...

Destroyer deployment, missile tests, drone warfare and North Korea’s near misses

This week’s episode of the NK News Podcast looks at North Korea’s military modernization, from Kim Jong Un’s new 5,000-t...

Seoul says it tracked North Korea missile test despite no real-time alert

South Korea’s defense ministry on Monday sought to dispel speculation that the military failed to detect North Korea’s J...

Challenging China’s maritime militia

Executive summary Introduction The ‘First Island Chain’ is a site of intense geopolitical contestation. Along it, the Pe...

The last days of the Persian Cats

The conflict in the Middle East may have destroyed the last of Iran's F-14 Tomcats that it bought from the US a half-cen...

US extends national emergency declaration over North Korea nuclear program

Washington has renewed a longstanding national emergency declaration toward North Korea for another year, citing the cou...

Space resilience in a British context

Executive summary Introduction The word ‘resilience’ has become a fixture in the United Kingdom’s (UK) space policy conv...

Space autonomy needs an authority architecture before 2027

Threats to space assets mean a greater reliance on autonomy to protect them from attack. Burak Oktenli argues this means...

Gibraltar Strait Surveillance Network Upgraded

New over-the-horizon radar and unmanned surface vessels extend coverage of one of Europe's busiest maritime gates.

Burden sharing: Preparing Britain and America for a multifront crisis

Executive summary CONTEXT KEY FINDINGS RECOMMENDATIONS To deter a full-blown multifront crisis, the UK and the US should...

Asian allies are doomed to hug Donald Trump close

Forget middle-power coalitions. Japan and its neighbours know that only America can deter China

The British defence industrial base: Strengths and weaknesses

Executive summary Over four years ago, Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, overturning decades of conven...

Malacca Littoral States Renew Coordinated Patrol Agreement

The trilateral patrols enter their third decade with expanded air surveillance and shared tracking feeds.

The War Room newsletter: When war becomes a political aesthetic

Shashank Joshi, our defence editor, examines why conflict exerts a “strange pull”

America's most exposed power projection platforms: Why United States Space Force installations must be treated as warfighting infrastructure

Unlike other military services, the Space Force largely operates from permanent bases in the United States and allied na...

The War Room newsletter: How the character of war has changed

Shashank Joshi looks back on eight years as defence editor

Sustainment under strike and sabotage: Contested logistics in the Wider North

Executive summary Introduction As the landscape for logistics continues to evolve, we must adapt to the new reality and ...

Foreign control of antibiotic supply: American and European import reliance and systemic vulnerabilities

Executive summary CONTEXT KEY FINDINGS RECOMMENDATIONS To reduce dependence on foreign-controlled antibiotics supply cha...

Strategy is easy, but logistics is hard. Golden Dome proves it.

The Golden Dome missile defense system will require major space-based capabilities, from sensors to interceptors. Bharat...

America’s submarine dominance is under threat

Naval mockery of China is turning to alarm

The global scramble for ports

The investment frenzy is driven by anxiety about China’s tightening grip on supply chains

To fight Russia, Europe needs Ukraine

It is risky to let Ukraine into the EU. It’s more dangerous to keep it out

A Fortress Moon for cislunar security

Cislunar space is evolving from one of primarily scientific interest to one with more strategic importance. Alan Dugger ...

Europe’s defence startups face even bigger hurdles than America’s

They must contend with a fragmented market and hesitant customers

There is no better spur to military innovation than war

Defence firms in Ukraine make new weapons much faster and cheaper than most Western companies

A dangerous blind spot in Donald Trump’s Iran war strategy

America sets too little store by foreigners’ beliefs and values. It’s a costly mistake, each time

When the orbital layer is the kill chain

Experts have debated the role that artificial intelligence has played in the ongoing conflict with Iran. Bharath Gopalas...

Anduril, Palantir and SpaceX are changing how America wages war

The Trump administration is cosying up to a new clique of “neo-primes”

The game theory behind violating ceasefires

Truces like the one in the Gulf get broken all the time. But they still work

If it starts, a nuclear-arms race will be unstoppable

A sobering interview with the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency

Strategic celestography and lunar competition: Artemis, CLEP, and the struggle for positional advantage

As the United States and China race to the Moon, both countries are considering bases in the same south polar region. Gl...

From advantage to arena: space power 1991-2026

The conflict in the Middle East has demonstrated how space capabilities have become essential to modern warfare. Bharath...

The War Room newsletter: The war that shaped modern Iran

Iran’s conflict with Iraq in the 1980s provides valuable lessons for today, writes Richard Cockett, a senior editor

NavIC: India's "jinxed" navigational program, or a cornerstone of India's misplaced space priorities?

A recent in-orbit failure has deprived India of a functioning navigation satellite system. Ajey Lele says what appears t...

Gulf states are burning through interceptors

The pace far outstrips that seen in Ukraine. Stocks are under severe pressure

How America and Israel built vast military targeting machines

Software is supercharging the process of finding things to bomb

China's 2026 defense budget set at 1.94 trillion yuan: spokesperson

Can Ukraine help defeat Iran’s drone swarms?

Thousands of Shaheds are raining down on the Gulf

The ghost in the orbit: how hybrid surveillance reshapes risks

The US military recently announced plans to commercially procure satellites to monitor other spacecraft in geosynchronou...