France already leads a monitoring mission in the Strait of Hormuz to protect trade there, and if a military operation to support opening the strait does get underway, Macron could take credit for ...

The Iranian strategy here is very much about not trying to defeat the American military because they can't, but trying to impose such costs upon the world and the Americans and the global economy that ...

Clearing the mines under fire would come at great cost. You need to suppress the risk from fire before you can clear the mines,” said Prest, also an associate fellow at the Royal United Services ...

Mining is a threat, not because the Iranians can physically close the strait (most mine-laying vessels can be struck, especially if they have no traffic to hide in) but rather because it only takes a ...

Dr Louise Marie Hurel from the Royal United Services Institute ... argues the war has shown that cyber should be talked about in the same way as conventional action to maintain rules of engagement.

This paper explores transnational anti-rights mobilisation as a hybrid threat to UK and European democracy, driven by foreign actors, funding and influence. ​ ...

Pro-Iran armed groups under the banner of the ‘Islamic Resistance in Iraq’ have targeted US military assets through asymmetric attacks,” Burcu Ozcelik, a senior research fellow for Middle East ...

The comparison with European national service systems is often misleading, as countries that maintain conscription today tend to face a direct land threat, often sharing a border with Russia,” he ...

It’s an uncomfortable comparison because we spend several billion a year more than the French, and it feels like they get more out of it than we do,” says Savill. “I would say, though, that they have ...

Protecting maritime trade means having shared situational awareness and distributed presence rather than large visible formations which might serve only as big targets.

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

The UK, through successive defence reviews, have made some strategic choices,” he said. “It’s Nato first. It’s the North Atlantic, it’s the High North. The principal adversary is Russia....And so, if ...