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.
While Vladimir Putin views Russia as a great power and civilizational counterweight to Western liberalism, he does not have a coherent plan to remake the world, let alone the capacity to do so. Because of this weakness, the Kremlin is focused not on domination, but on disruption.
The Iran ceasefire has exposed the limits of American power, as the United States was forced to rely on others to contain a crisis of its own making. It offers a glimpse of a possible future in which the countries of the Global South have both the will and the means to navigate crises on their own terms.
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.
The hybrid Navy offers an excellent opportunity to promote Prototype Warfare, accelerating the pathway between experimental technology and operator capability.
