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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.

Why Qatar and much of the GCC see prolonged conflict not as a strategy, but as a threat to the stability that built their prosperity.

The government should reduce universities’ operational cost and compensate them balancing national security interests against foreign interference.

Neutrality between China and the US, sidestepping two competing chauvinisms for fear of being crushed in between them, plays into Beijing’s hands.

UK counter-drone technologies are few and costly; what are British troops’ near-term risks?

Solutions may be found in unconventional ways.

Significant numbers of advanced munitions have been expended, revealing that battlefield dominance matters less than the industrial capacity to replenish critical stockpiles.

Iran has closed the Strait of Hormuz without formally closing it. The question facing Washington is not how to secure the waterway – it is whether any realistic military operation actually can.

As the conflict deepens, the world must urgently address the risk of biological weapons falling through the cracks.

Only Europe can take the action necessary to defeat Russia, save Ukraine and the international rules-based order, and reclaim the bloc's geopolitical power.

By targeting data centres in the Gulf, Iran has created global uncertainty about the resilience, sovereignty and security of digital infrastructures.

The adoption of nuclear power accelerated in reaction to oil crises in the past, and the proposition only makes greater sense today.

A change at the head of the UK’s intelligence service signals many changes, but will not ‘set Europe ablaze’.

The transformation of France’s land forces to a Fighting Army, a response to the 2014 invasion of Ukraine by Russia, has lessons for the British Army.

The Gulf States will be re-evaluating their future following the US’ betrayal of its security guarantees.

The long-awaited US National Cyber Strategy has just been published, and its five pages of content have raised considerable questions about how ambition will translate into practice.

Strengthening Europe’s defence requires public spending and public backing. How can political leaders explain and gain support for policies to fund defence investment?

With violent extremism pushed to the periphery of mainstream security debates, the concern is not just a lack of resourcing, but a revival of obsolete assumptions and policy approaches.

Ripples of economic disruption radiating from the attack on Iran by Israel and the US give notice of the effect a war over Taiwan would spread through the world.

Macron’s concept of ‘forward deterrence’ offers a distinctly European approach to nuclear deterrence.