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Dec 20, 2024
History is not merely on the move again – as we have become used to saying in response to the great succession of extraordinary political and military events since...
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Nov 21, 2024
As the war reached its 1000th day this week, any form of victory seems further away from Kyiv’s grasp than ever before.
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Nov 14, 2024
“Man’s soul is immortal, his salvation is in the next world,” Cardinal Richelieu once said; “the state has no immortality, its salvation is now or...
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Oct 31, 2024
There is no question that the world is spinning out of control, hurtling towards the catastrophe of major power war – which would likely see nuclear exchanges. Of course, the...
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Oct 24, 2024
The world has destabilised to a very large degree, very quickly.
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Oct 17, 2024
With Ukraine’s situation becoming increasingly precarious, it is time to confront, head-on, the most dangerous of the many illusions entertained by the Western...
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Oct 3, 2024
Over the past three weeks Israel has delivered an exceptional masterclass in intelligence-led military operations.
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Sep 26, 2024
President Zelensky has a new “victory plan,” which he has brought with him on his visit to the United States this week. It has been kept secret and will only be made...
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Sep 14, 2024
Conventional wisdom often gets a bad rap when things go wrong, but it should normally be a source of strength.
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Sep 5, 2024
When Ronald Reagan ran for president of the United States in 1980, he put “peace through strength” at the heart of his foreign policy vision.
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Jul 25, 2024
The prospect of a second Donald Trump presidency and, in particular, his recent pick of JD Vance as vice-presidential candidate have further increased the sense of alarm within the...
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Jul 11, 2024
These days election after general election only seems to confirm one thing: that ideological politics is dead, and with it, the modern era of politics, full...
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Jul 4, 2024
Questions of “identity” consume the present generation more than any others past. The spirit of our age, the Zeitgeist of the early 21st century – at...
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Jun 27, 2024
As the opinion polls continue to favour a presidential comeback for Donald Trump at the November elections, the question of what he would actually do in his second term of...
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Jun 20, 2024
With the 2024 EU elections now concluded, it is time to start planning for Europe’s true turning point: the next electoral round, in 2029. There is not a...
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Jun 10, 2024
Most great political revolutions in history take years, even more than a decade to unfold fully. At the time, those living through these events perceive them as just “one damn...
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Jun 6, 2024
As voters across the EU head for the polling stations in the coming days to elect their MEPs, it is issues to do with their daily life experience that will likely be uppermost in...
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May 30, 2024
“War is Hell”, William Tecumseh Sherman said in 1879, looking back on his years campaigning against the Confederacy during America’s Civil War. Sherman, that most...
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May 22, 2024
The unexpected demise of Iran’s president Ebrahim Raisi, stoned to death with a mountain by the grace of a US-made helicopter, has opened up speculation as to the political...
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May 16, 2024
We owe one of the most insightful observations about human reasoning to F. Scott Fitzgerald. In a 1936 essay, The Crack-Up, he wrote, “the test of a first-rate...
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May 10, 2024
For all the pomp and ceremony attending the French leg of Xi Jinping’s European tour, it is the stops in Budapest and Belgrade that carry the greater geopolitical significance...
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May 2, 2024
The fact that we are living at a time of increasing historical and strategic illiteracy, including among political leaders and so-called experts, can hardly be disputed.
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Apr 26, 2024
Despite what some sceptics say – particularly the multi-polarity types who often sound like Sputnik or RT propaganda –...
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Apr 20, 2024
It was the largest combined drone and missile attack in world history. On Sunday Iran launched a huge air strike package of roughly 320 munitions against Israel, consisting...
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Apr 11, 2024
The Western conversation on statecraft and defence in our times appears to have reached new peaks of strife, cacophony and sheer multiplicity and divergence of views even...
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Apr 4, 2024
That NATO has reached its 75th anniversary this week should be a cause for genuine celebration across the West and by all free and open societies around the world.
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Mar 29, 2024
Bashing Berlin on defence has become a very popular sport among experts and officials across NATO. Chancellor Olaf Scholz, in particular, with his cautious approach to supplying...
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Mar 22, 2024
The collective flight of reason triggered by Emmanuel Macron’s bombshell suggestion last month about a possible Western military intervention in Ukraine is...
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Feb 29, 2024
At a time when Ukraine desperately needs practical deliveries of weapons and ammunition to help sustain its defence against advancing Russian forces, president Macron has seen fit to...
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Feb 23, 2024
We have been travelling in this direction for many years. First there was Obama’s pivot to the Pacific, an early reaction to China’s rise; but in 2014 Crimea...
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Feb 16, 2024
The Munich Security Conference (MSC), which opens this week, is the Davos of the defence and strategic policy world. There is a degree of overlap as both gatherings see...
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Feb 2, 2024
The past couple of weeks have witnessed one of the biggest and most consequential shifts in European strategic policy since 1945. A series of top-level military and political leaders...
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Jan 26, 2024
Much of European public attention is riveted on internal issues such as net zero and deindustrialisation, the cost of living crisis, illegal migration or indeed the rise of the...
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Jan 12, 2024
The disgraceful spectacle on display in the Red Sea, courtesy of Houthi impudence and Western “restraint”, is not just an outrage. It is also a fascinating microcosm of...
Jun 27, 2024As the opinion polls continue to favour a presidential comeback for Donald Trump at the November elections, the question of what he would actually do in his second term of...
Jun 20, 2024With the 2024 EU elections now concluded, it is time to start planning for Europe’s true turning point: the next electoral round, in 2029. There is not a...
Jun 10, 2024Most great political revolutions in history take years, even more than a decade to unfold fully. At the time, those living through these events perceive them as just “one damn...
Jun 6, 2024As voters across the EU head for the polling stations in the coming days to elect their MEPs, it is issues to do with their daily life experience that will likely be uppermost in...
May 30, 2024“War is Hell”, William Tecumseh Sherman said in 1879, looking back on his years campaigning against the Confederacy during America’s Civil War. Sherman, that most...
May 22, 2024The unexpected demise of Iran’s president Ebrahim Raisi, stoned to death with a mountain by the grace of a US-made helicopter, has opened up speculation as to the political...
May 16, 2024We owe one of the most insightful observations about human reasoning to F. Scott Fitzgerald. In a 1936 essay, The Crack-Up, he wrote, “the test of a first-rate...
May 10, 2024For all the pomp and ceremony attending the French leg of Xi Jinping’s European tour, it is the stops in Budapest and Belgrade that carry the greater geopolitical significance...
May 2, 2024The fact that we are living at a time of increasing historical and strategic illiteracy, including among political leaders and so-called experts, can hardly be disputed. 
Apr 26, 2024Despite what some sceptics say – particularly the multi-polarity types who often sound like Sputnik or RT propaganda –...
Apr 20, 2024It was the largest combined drone and missile attack in world history. On Sunday Iran launched a huge air strike package of roughly 320 munitions against Israel, consisting...
Apr 11, 2024The Western conversation on statecraft and defence in our times appears to have reached new peaks of strife, cacophony and sheer multiplicity and divergence of views even...
Apr 4, 2024That NATO has reached its 75th anniversary this week should be a cause for genuine celebration across the West and by all free and open societies around the world. 
Mar 29, 2024Bashing Berlin on defence has become a very popular sport among experts and officials across NATO. Chancellor Olaf Scholz, in particular, with his cautious approach to supplying...
Mar 22, 2024The collective flight of reason triggered by Emmanuel Macron’s bombshell suggestion last month about a possible Western military intervention in Ukraine is...
Feb 29, 2024At a time when Ukraine desperately needs practical deliveries of weapons and ammunition to help sustain its defence against advancing Russian forces, president Macron has seen fit to...
Feb 23, 2024We have been travelling in this direction for many years. First there was Obama’s pivot to the Pacific, an early reaction to China’s rise; but in 2014 Crimea...
Feb 16, 2024The Munich Security Conference (MSC), which opens this week, is the Davos of the defence and strategic policy world. There is a degree of overlap as both gatherings see...
Feb 2, 2024The past couple of weeks have witnessed one of the biggest and most consequential shifts in European strategic policy since 1945. A series of top-level military and political leaders...
Jan 26, 2024Much of European public attention is riveted on internal issues such as net zero and deindustrialisation, the cost of living crisis, illegal migration or indeed the rise of the...
Jan 12, 2024The disgraceful spectacle on display in the Red Sea, courtesy of Houthi impudence and Western “restraint”, is not just an outrage. It is also a fascinating microcosm of...