Mark Rutte has come under attack for demeaning NATO, going beyond his remit and being ultimately ineffectual. Rutte is actually doing his job. And as he meets Trump this week, European allies could do more to help.
RUSI's Organised Crime and Policing Team recently hosted a roundtable discussion on 26 March 2026 in Brussels to examine Europe's energy system and the resilience of critical energy infrastructure under hybrid and war scenarios.
A generation of executives, ascendent post-Cold War, lack an institutional memory of intensifying divergence between the world’s largest economies. History offers a roadmap.
The US government tried to provide political risk insurance and guarantees to shipping and energy firms operating in the Gulf in an effort to keep the Hormuz Strait open. Here is the story why the scheme did not work.
US-Israeli strikes suggest preferred political end-states. Each make assumptions of resilience, anti-regime sentiment and air power effects. Do these assumptions still hold?
States have established new Permanent Mechanism at the UN to discuss the rules of the road in cyberspace. Rather than stall, they should not shy away from tough topics.
The British public overwhelmingly support their military and claim to understand defence, but they fundamentally misapprehend its state of readiness and capability to meet the realities of modern war.
This paper looks at the lessons to be drawn from sabotage attacks attributed to Russia against civilian infrastructure and logistics in European NATO countries, and questions NATO’s preparedness for future warfare.
As the Middle East is facing grave uncertainty against the backdrop of what is being called the 'Third Gulf War’, Ankara is managing an uneasy relationship with Iran.
