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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 ...

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

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

They must contend with a fragmented market and hesitant customers

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...

The War Room newsletter: Do ceasefires actually work?

Richard Cockett, a senior editor, considers whether one is possible in Ukraine

The War Room newsletter: What is Donald Trump’s aim for Iran?

Shashank Joshi, our defence editor, analyses the president’s options

Breaking dishes: the space facility at Yevpatoriya

Last year the Ukrainian military attacked a satellite tracking station in Russian-occupied Crimea. Dwayne Day examines t...

China stresses Taiwan at 'core of core interests' after Xi-Trump call; Room for 'relying on US for independence' illusion will only shrink further: expert

America risks a nuclear-arms race with China

Blame an expired treaty with Russia

Dragonship: China builds a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier while satellites watch

China is building up its navy, including what appears to be its first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier. Dwayne Day shows...

From pacifism to pragmatism: Japan's evolving space security policy

Japan, which once ruled out any military use of space, has gradually made use of space for reconnaissance and other nati...

Chinese FM holds strategic dialogue with Russia's Shoigu; Wang warns the world 'faces risk of regressing to law of jungle'

The War Room newsletter: Mission Maduro—when special ops succeed

Richard Cockett, a senior editor, discusses history’s best special operations with an SAS officer

When satellites are hacked: the legal gray zone of non-kinetic space attack

While kinetic attacks, like direct-ascent missiles, on satellites are well understood, less appreciated are non-kinetic ...

China's first Type 054B frigate reaches operational capability, official media reveals amid warship's first commissioning anniversary

What a US military base lost under Greenland’s ice sheet reveals about the island’s real strategic importance

Listen to Paul Bierman, an expert on Greenland’s ice, talk to The Conversation Weekly podcast about the history of the i...

PLA Navy's Type 055 large destroyer boosts anti-submarine capabilities with confrontational exercise in South China Sea

The successful development of Russia's counterspace activities in LEO and GEO

Russia has embarked on a a variety of projects to disrupt or destroy foreign satellites. Matthew Mowthorpe and Markos Tr...

The War Room newsletter: Inside the mission that snatched Maduro

Shashank Joshi, our defence editor, digs into the details

The War Room newsletter: Mega edition—you ask, I answer

Shashank Joshi, our defence editor, answers your questions in the final edition of 2025

The quest to chart the sea

This map reveals what scientists care about—and what armed forces don’t want to share

Chinese FM strongly condemns $11b US arms sales to Taiwan; DPP authorities 'thanking' Washington slammed by island netizens

How to survive abandonment by America

Allies are planning for a lonelier, harsher world: a report from South Korea

"Sovereign capacity" of private and public space programs

Countries are increasingly seeing the strategic value of space capabilities. Alexander Wallace Watson examines the ways ...

Western armed forces have struggled to fill their ranks to deter Russia

More sensible recruiting policies could help