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The 12-day war between Israel and Iran had the potential to enflame the region and stretch into a prolonged conflict, but each party carried strategic concerns that necessarily drove the cessation of open warfare.

RUSI analysts have applied tests to every major strategic paper published by the UK in recent years, and now look at how the Strategic Defence Review published in June 2025 satisfies close examination.

Kinga Redlowska and Tom Keatinge reflect on the latest season, the CFS’s 10th anniversary and the future of finance and security work.

The Speer Group ventures into the small world of German defence private equity. RUSI's Jonathan Eyal and Linus Terhorst interviewed its founders.

Military strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities and Tehran's criticism of the IAEA threaten to undermine the credibility and effectiveness of the Agency's work, with implications for non-proliferation beyond the Iran nuclear file.

Thucydides set the ‘gold standard’ for a strategic analysis of war with his history of the Peloponnesian War: Dr Roel Konijnendijk explains how.

The government’s recently published sanctions strategy under-promises, overdelivers and sets a vision for the future use of sanctions. Now the work begins.

EU financing of defence procurement is sensible. But excluding non-EU European industry risks delays and reliance on bond markets limits long-term, strategic security.

This paper explores how Russian state-affiliated and state-aligned actors are discussing, conceptualising and framing AI within their online communications.

The AI arms race is definitely ‘gathering speed’. What about the information wars? ‘Countries that are very good at AI could gain significant leverage in international relations through influence operations’, says the Military Review in its March-April 2025 issue. It is, therefore, necessary to consider the threats Russia has presented and could present in the future with AI-powered information operations.

When export controls are seen as a tool to limit competitors’ technology advancements, they can have unintended consequences. Such is the case for quantum technologies, where export controls accelerate a localized quantum supply chain in China.

At this year’s NATO Summit, Donald Trump won, Ukraine lost, Europe rolled out the red carpet and exposed the total psychological dependency on the US.

This Occasional Paper provides an analysis of vehicle theft in the UK, including trends, responses and challenges.

The release of the National Security Strategy lays out a troubling picture of the UK's place in an increasingly hostile and volatile world. RUSI experts offer their reaction to the major strategic document, and the light it sheds on the Britain's response.

How is the UK’s Labour government approaching European security, and how does this compare to the Conservatives?

This Policy Brief presents practical considerations arising from RUSI's three-year project 'Organised Crime, Terror and Insecurity in Africa', which explores local perceptions and experiences of key security threats.