Details matter, and when it comes to sanctions implementation, governments need to provide the right details to the banks on the frontline. Currently, they do not.
The UK is the first country to open its anti-money laundering evaluation process to research and broader civic engagement, raising the bar for a credible assessment process.
Claims new drilling in the North Sea could materially reshape the UK’s energy security appear overstated, misbalancing the discussion on future developments.
The ambition of NATO’s 5% spending target is softened by the potential to categorise 1.5% of infrastructure spend within the goal, but how will that be interpreted?
Chief of the Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard Knighton, gives the closing keynote address bringing an end to Day 2 of RUSI Land Warfare Conference 2026.
Trump’s entanglement in Iran ended a series of unprovoked attacks which the US claimed as successes. It is demonstrating the limits of US military power and is at variance with the goals of the National Defence Strategy.
The US-Iran Memorandum of Understanding may ease immediate pressure on energy markets, but by deferring the hardest questions, it risks entrenching crisis rather than ending it.
Colombia's changing criminal landscape has turned Ecuador into a global drug trafficking hub, driving violence and demanding urgent, coordinated security solutions.
Radek Sikorski, Poland’s Minister for Foreign Affairs and Deputy Prime Minister tells RUSI audience 'this is not the world Western Europeans tried to build after 1945. It is also not the world central Europeans expected to join after 1989.'
To disrupt Russia’s sanctions-evasion networks, the EU must target the infrastructure that allows for widespread use of crypto: liquidity, convertibility and access to the formal economy.
