The helicopter has been criticised following extraordinary Russian losses in Ukraine, however the benefits of vertical lift ...

The damage has been done, and uncertainty about the credibility of the US commitment is now an undercurrent of transatlantic relations. Trump is too mercurial and the resistance from inside the US too ...

These cases point to a general pattern. Economic pressure tends to matter in war only when it triggers one of three outcomes: the collapse of a state’s capacity to fight, the fragmentation of the ...

Tamer Badawi, an associate fellow at the Royal United Services Institute in London specializing in Iraq, said that al-Sudani may well have anticipated the pushback against al-Maliki’s nomination and ...

One thing that has dogged the Russian defence industry is the speed of production. A lot of their factories are very old-fashioned – they don’t produce aircraft or engines very quickly or very well,” ...

The recent return of China’s ‘wolf warrior’ diplomats has more to say about domestic pressures than about external challenges ...

A functioning rules-based order remains our best security guarantee—but only if we stop exempting ourselves from it. Predictable rules reduce conflict. Impartial enforcement builds legitimacy.

I would fall into being quite cautious if I were advising the President now because of the unpredictability of what would come next if the Islamic Republic fell, but at the same time there is a sense ...

What has happened in recent weeks is that the central government in Damascus, led by interim president Ahmed al-Sharah, has ...

The case for reform is strong … Experience suggests the greatest risks lie not in the model but in culture, process and change leadership.

The impact of Maduro’s capture will be negligible on Venezuela’s cocaine-trafficking.

To avoid being confronted in the Channel, growing numbers of tankers are travelling around the UK’s west coast, according to Gonzalo Saiz Erausquin of the Royal United Services Institute, suggesting ...