Trevor Taylor, defence industries director at the Royal United Services Institute think tank, argues that such commitments could take up a lot of the extra spending, not least to make them affordable.

Building up the UK’s partnership with the fast-growing nation is an essential task for whoever is Foreign Secretary after the election.

In a recent report, analysts at the UK's Royal United Services Institute highlighted the efforts to which Russia has gone to reconstitute is presence in Europe, often using proxies.

Recent comments by the UK’s Chief of the General Staff have triggered a debate about whether conscription should be ...

The government’s aim is for the UK to be a science and technology superpower. However, the UK’s current science and ...

This Policy Brief examines India’s initial caution in embracing the role of the Indo-Pacific in India’s strategic outlook, the changing geopolitical circumstances that led New Delhi to adopt a more ...

In the face of new state security threats, society needs to be more willing to accept the role of the defence sector. Weapons maim. Weapons kill. They do not distinguish between children and ...

As geopolitical tensions grow, governments across the Indo-Pacific region are racing to develop their cyber capabilities in order to ensure their future security and prosperity. But what implications ...

When President Putin ordered Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Kyiv’s western allies assembled unprecedented sanctions packages to target the Kremlin’s access to international ...

Reuters on April 25 reported from Washington that China was providing moorage for a U.S.-sanctioned Russian cargo ship implicated in North Korean arms transfers to Russia, according to satellite ...

Niger was ruled by “Western poster boy” Mohamed Bazoum. “But it wasn’t a rose garden,” said Simon Rynn, a senior research fellow for African security at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), a ...

Drawn-out Ukrainian efforts to mobilize more troops, and the belated building of battlefield fortifications, are other factors undermining Ukraine’s war effort, military analysts say. Nick Reynolds, a ...