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Russian aggression requires NATO to prepare its medical services now – using implementation science and Ukrainian experience to expand its workforce and build modular, scalable care.

Joint exercises assume crises arrive singly, are recognisable and end on schedule. Compounded crises break all three, and readiness reporting cannot detect it.

The UK's new information defence centre targets hostile states. A national open-source intelligence centre is needed to set standards and coordinate analysis across government.

Mental health capability is a determinant of combat power in large-scale combat operations, and armies should plan for psychological attrition.

The EU cannot outrun NATO in the Arctic. Its real gap is a legal category for partners like Norway, Iceland and the UK.

Russian reliance on amateur saboteurs enables an escalating campaign across NATO but creates a less-visible risk of unintended escalation by operational dysfunction.

. . . And the Urgent Need for Sweeping Military Institutional Change. Remarks by General David H. Petraeus to the House of Lords, 1 September 2026.

Volcanic island Jan Mayen is becoming a key NATO asset in the High North, sharpening tensions with Russia and reshaping Norway’s Arctic security posture.

A whole of system approach to health and human fitness, responsive to the varying demands of military personnel, would improve force readiness across the UK’s services.

Devolved nations and regions can pursue foreign relations with other states, utilising their unique histories, cultures and geopolitics to gain strategic advantage.

Why cannot Syria inherit Lebanon?

Palantir’s manifesto and the sovereignty question for states without algorithmic independence.

The shortcomings in the UK’s use of maritime power during the US war with Iran will provide lessons to the government on the strategic role the Royal Navy should play in the future.

There are steps Europe must take to prepare for a US-withdrawal from NATO.

The opportunity that electrification poses for logistical and tactical benefit should be embraced by the UK’s land forces.

To meet the scale of the UK's current security commitments, the British military must build force depth rather than relying on hybrid force concepts.

The Trump administration’s approach to intelligence shoots the messenger, undermining the community’s role of telling the President things he does not want to hear.

Beyond holding assets, France’s resilience depends on establishing credible access, prioritisation, and substitution mechanisms for critical materials.

The significant implications of the Government ambition for the UK’s defence industry to be ‘always on’.

From the June 2025 war onwards, the Iranian armed forces have adapted, struggled and adapted again to fight US and Israeli military might.