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Kevin Rowlands, Editor of the RUSI Journal, shares his take for 2026's Issue 2.

The Director of the Ted Stevens Center for Arctic Security Studies provides a Professional Insight into the importance of the High North to US homeland defence.

Mungo Melvin reviews The Rise and Fall of the British Army, 1975–2025, by Ben Barry.

Beatrice Heuser reviews Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI, by Yuval Noah Harari.

Giangiuseppe Pili reviews Blitzkrieg and the Russian Art of War, by Andrew Monaghan.

Kevin Rowlands reviews Unfrozen: The Fight for the Future of the Arctic, by Mia Bennett and Klaus Dodds.

The second Trump administration’s aggressive transactional approach has pressured Canada, Denmark/Greenland and Panama. This has prompted each to adapt. The authors show that while the US is gaining short-term concessions, its actions risk long-term fragmentation of alliances, potentially creating openings for the influence of other powers.

This research article aims to deepen understanding of cyber cognitive attacks by proposing a methodology to characterise them. The author apply the methodology to conduct a case study based on 100 references. This leads to a novel definition of cognitive attacks, detection design, applications and requirements for effective defences against cognitive attacks.

In this research article, Denys Vinskyi quantitatively assesses the capabilities of Russia’s Arctic Trefoil military base. Using an engineering reconstruction approach to open-source data, he considers satellite imagery, video materials and meteorological information to identify the installation’s operating capabilities and key vulnerabilities. The approach not only fills a gap in understanding but also provides benchmarks for NATO’s Arctic planning.

In this Professional Insight, the Chief of the Norwegian Defence Logistics Organisation provides a Professional Insight on the pacing function of High North conflict.

In this research article, the authors examine the Atlantic Bastion concept outlined in the UK Strategic Defence Review (SDR), assessing its deterrent value against Russian naval strategy in the North Atlantic. Situating the Bastion within deterrence theory, they argue that a sensor-focused barrier in the Norwegian Sea alone is insufficient to constrain Russian maritime operations. The authors contend that the Bastion must extend westward into the Atlantic and eastward into the Barents Sea, while being complemented by an Atlantic Strike capability, uncrewed systems, and naval mining.

Michael Clarke reviews The Spy and the Devil: The Untold Story of the MI6 Agent who Penetrated Hitler’s Inner Circle, by Tim Willasey-Wilsey.

Duncan Redford reviews The Royal and Russian Navies: Cooperation, Competition and Confrontation, by David Fields and Robert Avery.