Share with your friendsChina has mastered a subtle blend of economic coercion and cyber grey-zone tactics aimed at undermining Taiwan’s resilience—without ever firing a shot. Yet Taiwan, aware of what might lie ahead, has devoted itself to an asymmetric defence
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Share with your friendsFor years, Ukrainian experts have warned that the Moscow Patriarchate’s church network often serves not just religious purposes but strategic ones. This suspicion – long evident in Ukraine – is now gaining traction across Europe, from Sweden
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Share with your friendsIt takes roughly three months—sometimes less—for one side to blunt or neutralise a new weapon or tech deployed by the other. That time frame aligns with how Ukraine and Russia have structured their war economies: agile production,
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Share with your friendsThe skies over Iran have entered a new era of vulnerability. As Israel’s elite F‑35I “Adir” fighters carved deep into Iranian airspace, the United States launched a simultaneous strike using its GBU‑57 Massive Ordnance Penetrators (MOPs), marking
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Share with your friendsThe Baltic states and Finland are racing to redraw their rail networks on European terms. Soviet-gauge tracks – once binding these countries to Moscow – are being supplanted by European standard-gauge lines in a strategic shift with
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Share with your friendsThe UK faces critical decisions on its defence strategy as it conducts its third Strategic Defence Review (SDR) in four years, due in 2025. The review must address modern threats, particularly from Russia and China, against a
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Share with your friendsThe suspected sabotage of the Estlink 2 undersea cable has sparked swift and decisive reactions from Finnish authorities. The incident, which disrupted the critical power link between Finland and Estonia, has reminded of the vulnerabilities of key
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Share with your friendsFollowing the unexpected collapse of President Bashar al-Assad’s regime, Israel launched a series of pre-emptive strikes across Syria. These operations aimed to neutralize potential threats from advanced weaponry and prevent their acquisition by hostile entities amid the
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Share with your friendsAfter a sluggish start, Europe’s defence industry is finally waking up, spurred by the war in Ukraine. Investment is pouring in, partnerships are taking shape, and new technology is rolling out, all aimed at bolstering the continent’s
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Share with your friendsEurope’s defence isn’t just a matter of armed forces and willpower—it’s about resources. Decades of reliance on free trade have endangered the continent’s mineral security, leaving it vulnerable in a world where strategic control of raw materials
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