For the last 12 or 24 months we have really seen a step up in the information warfare as part of the hybrid campaign that the ...

Britain “has been overdue a more coherent strategic response to this threat. The threat environment has vastly changed, and the government’s response has so far been split across several departments." ...

Jamie MacColl, a senior research fellow specialising in cyber at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), told the BBC western tech firms had been supporting Ukraine for some time - partly for ...

The new National Centre for Information Defence is a welcome, if overdue, step towards the UK mounting a more strategic response to foreign information warfare in the age of social media and AI.

Piracy off Somalia has surged in 2026. More than a ‘resurgence’ of a past problem, this reflects a rapidly evolving maritime security environment.

Russia’s elections were a staged affair, designed to legitimise Putin’s war on Ukraine. But elections have never decided ...

Christoph Bergs, an air power specialist at the Royal United Services Institute, said the extra tanker would be useful, but not decisive. “The Saudis already have this [refuelling] capability,” he ...

There are two worlds at sea at the moment...One is the world of the Russians on operations, having a fight, cyber attacks, sabotage, and Ukrainian special forces sinking Russian ships wherever they ...

Houthi gains around Bab Al-Mandeb have exposed rival visions of Gulf security, as Saudi Arabia, Israel, Turkey, Pakistan and the US weigh competing responses.

Dan Marks, at the Royal United Services Institute, says the UK Government should also lay out a more coherent China strategy, instead of making ad hoc decisions about firms such as Mingyang or the ...

The price of gold has doubled in the past two years, and estimates suggest the volume of illicit flows has doubled with it. So, every tonne of conflict gold, laundered or smuggled through an ...

Dr Kinga Redlowska is the Head of CFS Europe at RUSI. She leads the Centre for Finance and Security’s Brussels-based work at the intersection of illicit finance, economic security and geopolitical ...