The China-Cook Island's Comprehensive Strategic Partnership draws the island nation into a rising competition in the pacific ...

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Disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration following the dissolution of the PKK will be a process with no recent ...

There is a risk of drawing the wrong conclusions about Chinese and Western air capabilities from the recent clashes if Indian ...

Income tax currently raises 11 per cent of national income. So this extra 1 per cent for defence could be financed by increasing income tax revenue by 10 per cent." ...

Matthew Savill of the Royal United Services Institute think-tank, said: “Given the existing pressures in the budget, and the need to rebuild the foundations of defence, it’s very unlikely that the ...

The long-awaited Strategic Defence Review can lead to significant change in the Armed Forces if it moves beyond previous ...

Old airframes do exist in stock, but bringing them back to operational condition and upgrading their systems to Tu-95MS or Tu-22M3 standard would be extremely expensive and take many years to start ...

Political support for the war in Gaza is at a nadir among Israel’s allies in the international community, with the UK looking ...

On 29 May The Rt Hon Lord Hermer, the UK Attorney General, gave the Annual Security Lecture at RUSI.

The review majors on 'warfighting readiness' and a 'whole of society approach', yet, unlike European allies such as Germany, Norway, Sweden, Estonia and Lithuania, the government has decided not to ...

While the Review points to the need to recapitalise defence and invest in new technologies, it is less clear about the timescale for getting there. In part, this reflects concerns about the capacity ...