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The one issue where Democrats think Trump is right (Politico)

Donald Trump’s broadside against the defense industry might sound like a populist cry targeting wealthy CEOs. But the president’s tirade was actually building for...

From Sanctions to the Scrapyard: Confronting a Growing Environmental Threat (Gonzalo Saiz Erausquin – RUSI)

The global sanctions landscape has driven the emergence of an extensive shadow fleet of tankers used to move sanctioned oil. Despite the spotlight on...

Farming is Critical to UK National Security (Ed Arnold – RUSI)

In 2024, the UK's total agricultural labour force was 452,900 or 1.3% of the total workforce, spanning 209,000 farm holdings across 69% of the...

The Evolution of Russian and Chinese Air Power Threats (Justin Bronk – RUSI)

In 2020, RUSI published papers on the potential threats posed to Western forces by Russian and Chinese combat air capabilities and ground-based air defence...

Iran is rewriting its rules of war—and raising the stakes for everyone (Roohola Ramezani – ASPI The Strategist)

Iran’s long-standing era of strategic patience appears to be ending. A newly articulated doctrine of preemption—dangerously vague and publicly declared—suggests a regime that sees...

Facing China’s threat, Australia–Japan alignment is indispensable (Carlyle Thayer – ASPI The Strategist)

The deteriorating strategic environment in the Indo-Pacific makes an Australia-Japan defence alignment central to maintaining a free and open Indo-Pacific by deterring China in...

Battery Statecraft: Green Tech Minerals are a Military Asset (Tye Graham – The Jamestown Foundation)

Beijing sees its battery dominance as an emerging instrument of statecraft. By controlling key stages of the value chain, it can impose delay, uncertainty,...

What the Bella-1 Teaches Us About Targeting Shadow Fleets (Jose M. Macias III – CSIS)

After months-long journey marked by suspicious behavior, identity changes, and attempts to evade international scrutiny the United States seized sanctioned Russian oil tanker Marinera,...

Trends in Terrorism: What’s on the Horizon in 2026? (The Soufan Center)

It is clear that the counterterrorism focus of the past two decades has become deprioritized in favor of great power competition, reflected in the...

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