Time to talk: Europe and the Vulnerability Equities Process
Finding a healthy balance between a nation’s national security needs and the government’s responsibility to keep the public secure in cyberspace, is a complicated task
Defence, Security and Tech
Post-Brexit security concerns should safeguard scandal-hit UK aid budget
The UK sees overseas aid as an important part of its approach to international security. With Brexit it is already feeling vulnerable enough without introducing new security worries.
Five takeaways from the Munich Security Conference
The world is in need of leadership on the global stage – but in Munich, no leaders were in sight
A New Beginning for European Defence
It is time to move past institutional integration and develop practical European security capabilities
The Brexit threat to Britain’s defence industry
Last September, the UK published a remarkable paper on how it sees future foreign policy and defence relations with the EU after Brexit. Successive British…
Britain’s Strategic Defence and Security Review and deterring Russia
Russia is being weaponised to justify big-ticket buys for the UK military, yet there’s little talk of what Moscow thinks matters
The draft US Nuclear Posture Review is not as crazy as it sounds
The proposal of new, low-yield warheads seeks to convince adversaries that there is no step in the escalation ladder that the US would not be able to answer reciprocally
The transatlantic divide on Iran
In 2017, differences between European leaders and US President Donald Trump on several global security objectives have strained transatlantic relations. Nowhere are these differences more…
EU defence efforts miss the open goal again
“Big noise on stairs, nobody coming down.” Alas, the old Chinese saying applies all too aptly to the European Union’s latest scheme for promoting defence…
The problem with a “shoot-to-kill” policy on foreign fighters
The policy is certainly morally questionable, but is it also unlawful?