Rachel Ellehuus, a former US Pentagon official who is now director-general of the Royal United Services Institute in London, describes Hegseth’s review as the “shoe that hasn’t dropped”.

The big drone companies are still on relatively small contracts...We still see, especially in the drone world, that large-scale contracts are not coming through . . . [which] is hampering companies’ ...

The gap between the Strategic Defence Review and the Defence Investment Plan of course leads to lots of investors in the industry asking to what extent they can rely on the strategic documents that ...

I think our rules are currently dealt for yesterday's world. So we are still at the moment - and I say at the moment because there is legislation afoot to change this - but at the moment we're ...

Turkey’s relationship with NATO is arguably in a stronger position than it has been for several years... European allies increasingly recognize that strengthening NATO’s southern flank, securing the ...

It is a country that is suffering from severe stagflation and contraction ... prices and the costs of regular goods has skyrocketed, and the war has wiped out about a million jobs with the hit on ...

The reported failing health of Ramzan Kadyrov leaves a strategic communications gap for a Kremlin speaking to the Islamic world. Kadyrov’s death will have significant implications for Kremlin security ...

This RUSI Europe webinar asks: what can we realistically expect from the Ankara summit? How can Europeans do more without ...

Organised crime is changing fundamentally in scope, nature, scale and sophistication. Our collective responses are failing to keep pace. In 2026, the global illicit landscape looks markedly different ...

Virtually any frontline artillery positions the Ukrainians have are at risk of being destroyed...While small FPV (first-person view) quadcopters and tactical drones can strike targets, they simply do ...

He added that the UK had a “limited” capability to counter unmanned aircraft systems, or drones, and there was “considerable room for growth"..."In peacetime, the goal is likely disruption and ...

The underlying calculation is that a war-weary society subjected to sustained attacks might exert pressure on the government to accept almost any settlement that promises an end to hostilities...Thus ...